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Sumner County Board of Education removes Looking for Alaska from high school reading lists (May 2012)
Following complaints from a parent who skimmed the novel Looking for Alaska, which was assigned reading in a high school English class, and then complained that the book was too explicit for students, the Sumner County Board of Education reviewed the book and decided to remove it from reading lists. Read more >>

Brevard County Public Libraries remove all copies of Fifty Shades of Grey (May 2012)
Some time after purchasing nearly 20 copies of the bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey, the Brevard County public libraries removed the book from their collection, stating that it was pornography and they don't collect porn. Read more >>

Annville-Cleona School Board removes The Dirty Cowboy from all elementary schools (April 2012)
The picture book The Dirty Cowboy is a tall tale about a cowboy who instructs his dog not to let anyone else near his clothes when he takes his annual bath, and then finds that his dog doesn't recognize him once he's clean. Read more >>

Gibbs Elementary pulls And Tango Makes Three from the shelves, returns it after controversy (March 2012)
Following a complaint in Fall 2011 that the picture book And Tango Makes Three, about two male penguins who adopt a penguin, was inappropriate for elementary school children, the Committee for Reconsideration of Resources reviewed the book and decided that it was age-appropriate and should remain on the shelves. Read more >>

Schofield Middle School places teacher on leave for reading Ender's Game to class (March 2012)
After a 14-year-old student complained that the book Ender's Game, which a teacher had read to the class, was "pornography," school officials placed the teacher on leave pending results of an investigation into the incident. Read more >>

Forest Middle School removes Running with the Buffaloes from library (February 2012)
After one of the parents of a student at Forest Middle School in Bedford County, VA, complained about profanity in the book Running with the Buffaloes, about the University of Colorado cross-country running team's winning 1998 season, the principal removed copies of the book from the library pending review. Read more >>

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Maine Regional School Unit #10 restricts Stuck in the Middle to middle school students with written permission (January 2012)
Following complaints from a parent in December 2011 about the contents of the book Stuck in the Middle: 17 Comics from an Unpleasant Age, a collection of comics about adolescence which contains both profanity and sexual content, school officials removed the book from the library while the challenge committee reviewed it. Read more >>

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Tucson Unified School District removes seven books from the library, ends ethnic studies program under threat of a $1,000,000 fine per month (January 2012)
After Arizona passed a law written by Attorney General Tom Horne and its Superintendent of Instruction John Huppenthal, which "promote the overthrow of the U.S. Read more >>

Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian pulled from Dade County High School (GA) curriculum (November 2011)
After parents complained that The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian contained both profanity and sexual content, and that the alternate selection was boring, the Superintendent of Dade County Schools in Georgia called an invitation-only meeting to discuss new selection procedures for books in the curriculum as well as to discuss The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian in particular. Read more >>

Eagles Landing Middle School removes Shadow from library (November 2011)
After an eleven-year-old girl checked out the book Shadow, her father complained to the school about the book's content. Read more >>