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1 dzień temu · A record number of books were banned in districts across the country during the 2023-2024 school year, according to a free speech organization. By Alexandra Alter Jodi Picoult’s “Nineteen ...
1 dzień temu · Jodi Picoult’s Nineteen Minutes was the most banned book in U.S. schools during the 2023-2024 school year, according to a new report by the literary nonprofit PEN America.. Picoult’s 2007 novel, about a school shooting, has been banned in more than 50 school districts across the country. The next most frequently banned books were John Green’s Looking for Alaska, Stephen Chbosky’s The ...
1 dzień temu · Updated 5:20 AM PDT, November 1, 2024. NEW YORK (AP) — Jodi Picoult remembers when everyone seemed to praise her novel “Nineteen Minutes,” a 2007 bestseller about a school shooting that now tops a list compiled by PEN America of the books most banned in schools. “Not only was it recommended for young adults to read, but it was on the ...
1 dzień temu · More than 80% of the bans came in Iowa and Florida, states that have passed laws restricting school books. Around 4,500 were removed in Florida, and more than 3,600 in Iowa, according to PEN.
1 dzień temu · Close. Jodi Picoult remembers when everyone seemed to praise her novel “Nineteen Minutes," a 2007 bestseller about a school shooting that now tops a list compiled by PEN America of the books ...
1 dzień temu · PEN America analyzed the content of every book banned in two or more districts in the 2023-24 school year, or 1,091 unique titles. This is approximately 25 percent of the total number of 4,231 unique titles banned this school year. Our analysis of this subset shows: 57% included sex or sex-related topics and content.
15 maj 2023 · Here are 15 books PEN America says were most frequently banned from July 2021 through the first part of the 2022-23 school year. 1. “Gender Queer: A Memoir” by Maia Kobabe.
