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PEN America recorded more than 11,000 book bans during the 2025–2026 school year. Here are the titles facing the most challenges — and why.

What do Of Mice and Men, Bridge to Terabithia, and Scary Stories to Tell in the Darkall have in common? They're all among the ten most "challenged" books of the 1990s, the books that parents, teachers ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A large bookshelf filled with books. Texas and Florida banned the most titles by far, while works of fiction made up nearly 90% of ...

America has banned books from the public eye for decades. Book bans hit a record high this past school year, with 11,982 ...

Carrie White (Summer H. Howell) never got to read that precious stack of library books, but you can. Even though every single one of them has been banned IRL. In the second episod ...

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Over 4,000 authors, illustrators and translators were impacted by book bans this year ...