LibGuides: Banned Books Week: Resources • Articles & Books

"The Top Ten lists are only a snapshot of book challenges. Surveys indicate that 82-97% of book challenges – documented requests to remove materials from schools or libraries – remain unreported and receive no media."

- Top 10 Most Challenged Books List

Censorship, Banned Books, & Challenges

Library Database Articles

Challenges to Children's Picture Books with LGBTQ Themes: A 30-Year Review
Children & Libraries: The Journal of the Association for Library Service to Children; Summer2022, Vol. 20 Issue 2, p3-9, 7p
Sharp Rise in Challenges to Books About Race
School Library Journal. May2021, Vol. 67 Issue 5, p12-14. 3p
Beyond Book Bans
Library Journal. Apr2023, Vol. 148 Issue 4, p14-15.
Censorship & Silence: How book bans and removals threaten diverse stories and voices
Literacy Today (2411-7862). Apr-Jun2022, Vol. 39 Issue 4, p30-34. 5p.
Banned Bytes
School Library Journal. Apr2023, Vol. 69 Issue 4, p27-29. 3p
On the Front Line
School Library Journal. Feb2022, Vol. 68 Issue 2, p20-25. 6p.
377 Book Challenges Tracked by ALA in 2019--and the Problem Is Growing: Book Banning and Its Adverse Effects on Students
Knowledge Quest, v50 n5 p30-33 May-Jun 2022.
Civil Rights Battle in Texas
School Library Journal. Mar2023, Vol. 69 Issue 3, p18-20. 2p.
Suits Challenging Book "Banning" May Be Better Politics than Law
Education Next. Summer2022, Vol. 22 Issue 3, p6-7.
Under the Law: Banning Books: Unlawful Censorship, or within a School's Discretion?
Phi Delta Kappan, v103 n7 p62-64 Apr 2022.
Books, censorship, and anti-intellectualism in schools
Phi Delta Kappan; Apr2020, Vol. 101 Issue 7, p28-32, 5p,
About Those Penguins
School Library Journal; Jun2022, Vol. 68 Issue 6, p14-16, 3p,
Bills Target Librarians
School Library Journal. Apr2023, Vol. 69 Issue 4, p13-14. 2p

Censorship, Challenges, and Bans

Juvenile Collection

Sampling of titles discussing banned books, challenges, and censorship.

Answers in the Pages
Call Number: PZ7.L5798 An 2022
Attack of the Black Rectangles
Call Number: PZ7.K5693 At 2022
You Can't Say That!
Call Number: Z658.U5 Y68 2021
Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics
Call Number: PZ7.G7456 Mr 2016
Robert Cormier: Banned, Challenged, and Censored
Call Number: PS3553.O653 Z615 2008
Places I Never Meant to Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers
Call Number: PZ5 .P6635 1999

Censorship: MAIN Collection

Silenced in the Library
Call Number: Z1019.J37 2017
"Silenced in the Library: Banned Books in America provides a comprehensive examination of the challenges to major books as well as the final results of these selections being deemed "unfit for public consumption."
Books under Fire
Call Number: Z1019 .S325 2015
"Scales has compiled a tool to help librarians, teachers, and young readers become aware of the social issues that are most often at the center of the majority of book challenges for children."
The Language Police
Call Number: LB3045.7 .R38 2003
"The Language Police is the first full-scale exposé of this cultural and educational scandal, written by a leading historian. "
Banned in the U. S. A.
Call Number: Z658.U5 F64 2002
"Looks at censorship in American schools and libraries, and includes a section of the fifty most banned books from 1996 through 2000, including Harry Potter."