Other authors frequently prohibited and disputed are the novelist Jodi Picoult, the author of the manga Yusei Matsui and the author for children and young adults Elana K. Arnold.
The report lists states with the highest book rates prohibiting in 2024-25 in Florida, with 2,304 instances; Texas (1,781); and Tennessee (1,622).
“Never before in the life of a living American, so many books have been systematically removed from school libraries across the country.
The authors of the Pen America report added that although many prohibitions have been promulgated at local and state levels, the federal government has used new decrees signed by President Trump withdraw Certain titles of the schools of the Ministry of Defense on military bases; In July, nearly 600 titles were removed for lack of reduction with decrees related to diversity,, Discussions on the breed And “Extremism of gender ideology.”
In January, the Ministry of Education published a note in which it called the prohibited book “prankAnd has canceled all the federal guidelines that indicate that the moves of “inappropriate” books could be violations of civil rights laws.
Pen America also argues that representations of LGBTQ + identity in books are often considered “sexually explicit”, including in image books And Tango in fact threeThe true story of two male emperors who hatch and raising a baby chick at the New York zoo in New York, and The superhero pourimIncluding the main character debate of the costume he should wear for the joyful Jewish festivals – and who has two fathers.
