Banned Books 2023-2024
The number of books targeted for removal from schools in 2023.
What is 4,240?
Who is the author of The Bluest Eye?
Who is Toni Morrison?
This graphic novel is semi-autobiographical, set in 1995 at a Boy Scouts summer camp.
What is Flamer?
This state had the largest number of book bannings in the US in 2023.
Florida (PEN America)
Which book by Dr. Seuss was banned because it offended forestry workers?
What is The Lorax?
The most targeted books for censorship typically contain these two topics.
What is the LGBTQ+ community and people of color?
In what year was All Boys Aren’t Blue published?
What is 2020?
This book was banned in the most states and has been number 1 the past two years.
What is Gender Queer?
SC Regulation 43-170 allows for book bans to be enacted on this scale.
What is statewide? (SC Department of Education).
This is the percentage increase in banned books from 2022-2023.
What is 65%
Number of books challenged in SC alone last year.
What is over 100?
What is the name of the main character in The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas?
Who is Starr?
Out of the 13 most banned books in 2024, how many were banned on account of LGBTQIA+ content?
What is 7?
This SC county’s library board refused to purge LGBTQ+ themed books in county libraries, leading to the county council removing three seats from the library board in 2023 (ACLU of SC).
What is York County?
What book was banned because it was said to be “too depressing”?
What is The Diary of Anne Frank?
The 2024 slogan for Banned Book Week.
What is "Let Freedom Read"?
In Flamer by Mike Curato, what SPECIFIC religion is Aiden a part of throughout the book?
What is Catholic?
These two books containing LGBTQIA+ content tied as 5th most banned book in America.
What is Looking for Alaska and The Perks of Being a Wallflower?
Number of book bans in SC between July 2022 – June 2023.
What is 127? (PEN America). (allow anything between 120-135)
It is believed that the first book banned in the United States was done in what year?
What is 1627?
This book has been the most banned book in America from 2010-2019.
What is The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
What was the main reason The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander was challenged?
What is promoting critical race theory?
The first banned book in the U.S. to be banned for LGBTQIA+ content was Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden. The book was initially challenged in this U.S. state.
What is Texas?
A teacher in this SC county was ordered to stop teaching Between the World and Me, an autobiographical book about the author’s experience as a black man in America, because it made some students “uncomfortable” (ACLU of SC).
What is Lexington county?
What are some of the reasons as to why Perks of Being a Wallflower is banned/challenged?
What is?
Sexually explicit
LGBTQIA+ content
Mentions of rape, drugs and profanity