So, it offers an important historical perspective about race I think most people may not be comfortable thinking or talking about. It takes place in a camp where a young black boy falls in love with a Hispanic girl, and it being in the 1930s, people handle it about as well as you'd expect. It covers the topic of race in the South (Texas) during the oil boom of the 1930s. I think it's probably a good lesson for kids to know you probably shouldn't make snap judgements about people, whether for good or for ill, until you get to know them. Some of the characters seem like good people but as you go along, you learn more about who they are and what they believe. It didn't tell you so much as showed you about them. Overall the book took its time to introduce the characters. So I bought a copy and started to read it. I researched it and saw the book had many accolades and was on many critics top ten list. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison - rape, incest, claimed to be sexually explicit, EDI contentĤ.I heard about this book when some people showed up at a school board meeting demanding it be removed from all the libraries in each of the schools in the district. Johnson - LGBTQIA+ content, claimed to be sexually explicitģ. Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe - LGBTQIA+ content, claimed to be sexually explicitĢ. Here are the books the ALA tracked as most challenged in 2022 (there was a 4-way tie for #10):ġ. Maas, and Crank by Ellen Hopkins.Įight of the titles have remained on the list for multiple years.
There are a handful of titles on the list this year that are new from 2021, including Flamer by Mike Curato, Looking for Alaska by John Green, The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Most of the books on the list have been challenged with claims of including LGBTQIA+ or sexually explicit content. The graphic memoir follows Kobabe's path to gender-identity as nonbinary and queer. Once again this year, Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe, published in 2019, tops the ALA's list. Pelayo-Lozada says that despite the high challenge numbers, a library association poll shows a large majority of Americans don't believe in banning books. Book News & Features Efforts to ban books jumped an 'unprecedented' four-fold in 2021, ALA report says
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