It's Banned Books Week! Challenges to, and banning of, books still happen a great deal. In fact, the American Library Association found that, in 2019, there was a 14% increase in the number of challenges over the previous year. What does all of that mean? Take a look at this:
And here are the top 10 challenged books from 2019 and the most common reason why they were challenged.
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(For a complete list of book titles that were reported to the ALA as banned, challenged, or restricted during 2019, check out this document.)
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