2025 Banned Books. This is a statewide spend to seek out banned books and making removal of books in school districts easier, quicker, and less transparent. Banned books week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in libraries, bookstores, and schools.
A pen america list shows 300 titles were removed from school libraries across 11 missouri districts after lawmakers in 2022 banned “sexually explicit” material, punishable by up. Pen america is conducting additional content analysis of the remaining 3,140 titles banned in this school year that were only banned once, to be released in 2025.
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