List April 12, 2023

CFE Profiles of Challenged Books

Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Mike Curato, Flamer

Deborah Ellis, Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak

Jonathan Evison, Lawn Boy

Alex Gino, Rick

John Green, Looking for Alaska

Robie H. Harris, It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health

Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings, I Am Jazz

Ellen Hopkins, Crank

Ellen Hopkins, Identical

Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue

Susan Kuklin, Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Jessica Love, Juliàn Is A Mermaid

Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

Megan Madison, Jessica Ralli, Being You: A First Conversation About Gender

Patricia McCormick, Sold

Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan, Let’s Talk About It: The Teen’s Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human

Ashley Hope Pérez, Out of Darkness

Ellen Hopkins, Tricks

Alice Sebold, Lucky

Cory Silverberg, Sex Is a Funny Word: A Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU

Cory Silverberg, What Makes a Baby

Cory Silverberg, You Know, Sex

Rebecca Vilkomerson and Rabbi Alissa Wise, Solidarity is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing

Jannette Walls, The Glass Castle

Embarrassed Alberta Revises Its School Censorship Order. This One Is Worse

Having been so widely ridiculed for its first Ministerial Order banning all books with “explicit sexual content” from all school libraries, the Government of Alberta just issued a

Shannon Moore Joins CFE Working Group on Schools and Intellectual Freedom

Shannon D. M. Moore, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba, is joining the Centre for Free Expression (CFE) Working Group on Schools and Intellectual Freedom.“Shannon’s work both as an academic researcher and as a teacher in the public school system will be a valuable addition to the group which helps guide CFE’s work in defending and promoting intellectual freedom in schools.”

Alberta’s Real Disgrace Is Not Banning Atwood & Huxley (Bad Though That Is): It Is Something Far Worse

Alberta Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides is responsible for arguably the largest ban of school library books in Canadian history. The first Alberta school board to apply his Ministerial Order has had to ban 226 of currently-held books from all its schools because they contained passages with “explicit sexual content” as defined by the Minister’s Order.