Oct. 5-11 is Banned Books Week, a week launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in libraries, bookstores and schools, according to bannedbooksweek.org. The ...

The most challenged Young Adult books ever.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Indiana public libraries over the past year faced objections to books written for children, young adults and older readers alike.

These books were the Top 10 Most Challenged of the 2000s. These books proved controversial, at least for some readers, who tried, and sometimes succeeded, to get them taken off shelves. The list is a ...

Many of these individual titles also appear on a 2024-25 report issued last October by PEN America, a separate group dedicated to free expression, which looked at book challenges and bans specifically ...

Indiana public libraries over the past year faced objections to books written for children, young adults and older readers alike. As in previous years, most of the books that were challenged included ...