At least eight states are trying to crack down on attempts to remove books in school libraries, passing legislation that ...

As Utah adds more titles to its banned book list, three award-winning authors and two high school students are suing the ...

Remember those paperback novels with lovers on covers in the grocery store checkout line, circa 1987? The flowing-haired ...

GARDNER-EDGERTON, Kan. (KCTV) - The Gardner-Edgerton School Board held a heated debate on Dec 8 over the banning of a book after one parent requested it be pulled from the high school library. The ...

The Brooklyn Public Library has released a list of its 100 favorite books of the year, a wide-ranging collection of fiction and nonfiction, short stories, poetry, and graphic novels for all ages.

When book lovers grabbed William Kent Krueger’s early novels because of Lee Child’s praise on the cover — “Krueger hits the sweet spot every time” — there was just one issue: Child hadn’t read the ...

A book on the history of Booker T. Washington School was released Thursday at the Wichita County Archives. The information for its pages was gathered by Brenda Jarrett, who co-edited it with Elizabeth ...

Iowa City West High School's Banned Book Club founders, Alice Gooblar-Perovic, Aahana Gupta and Lydia Cruce promote their club at the school activities fair. Three Iowa City West high schoolers ...

A map shows which states banned the most books in the 2024-2025 school year. PEN America recorded 6,870 instances of books being pulled from school libraries across 23 states and in 87 public school ...

PEN America, a nonprofit that advocates for freedom of expression, says that while the number of book bans in schools is declining, it’s still “rampant.” According to PEN’s report on book bans in ...

Alex Wermer-Colan received funding from the Mellon Foundation. Alex Wermer-Colan is the Managing Editor of the Programming Historian in English and the Executive Director of Philly Community Wireless.

Sharing stories together can ease first-day jitters and make the transition back to school a little brighter. (Green Shoot Media photo) Whether it’s a child’s very first day or just a new year with ...