Book Bans: List of books challenged in schools tracked by Florida Freedom to Read Project
Fort Myers News-Press | By Nikki Ross | September 26, 2022
The Florida Freedom to Read project has identified 581 books that have been challenged in Florida’s school districts.
Of those challenges, the project identified 215 books that were returned to shelves in at least one district where the challenge occurred, 114 had labels put on the challenged books, 69 of them were restricted to certain age groups or students, and 65 were banned or removed entirely from libraries.
Of the challenges, 19 were led by parents, 313 were led by conservative groups and 303 were led by school leadership, according to the project.
Here is a list of books by county and all of the challenged books listed by the Florida Freedom to Read Project:
- Tricks
- The Hate U Give
- Thirteen Reasons Why
- Beloved
- The Bluest Eye
- Nineteen Minutes
- All Boys Aren’t Blue
- The Kite Runner
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian
- Drama
- The Truth About Alice
- This One Summer
- Killing Mr. Griffin
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- Real Live Boyfriends
- Melissa (George)
- Looking for Alaska
- Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything
- A Court of Mist and Fury
- Forever
- Crank
- Gender Queer: A Memoir
- I am Jazz
- Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You
- Being Jazz: My LIfe as a (Transgender) Teen
- Anti Racist Baby
- Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
- Sloppy Firsts
- Lucky
- More Happy Than Not
- Out of Darkness
- And Tango Makes Three
- Monday’s Not Coming
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- Triangles
- Two Boys Kissing
- L8R G8R
- A Court of Silver Flames
- The Black Flamingo
- The Breakaways
- Julian is a Mermaid
- When Aidan Became a Brother
- The Haters
- Almost Perfect
- The Infinite Moment of Us
- Dear Martin
- Unravel Me
- Dead Until Dark
- Morris Mickelwhite & the Tangerine Dress
- Perfect
- The God of Small Things
- Outlander
- Water for Elephants
- Sold
- Breathless
- Push
- Jesus Land
- This Book is Gay
- A Court of Frost and Starlight
- A Court of Wings and Ruin
- What Girls Are Made Of
- Black Girl Unlimited
- Odd One Out
- It feels good to be yourself: a book about gender identity
- The Vincent Boys
- Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out
- Lawn Boy
- Everywhere Babies
- Let’s Talk About It: A Teen’s Guide to Sex
- Rick
- It’s Perfectly Normal
- Identical
- The You I’ve Never Known
- The Family Fletcher Takes Rock Island
- The Nowhere Girls
- Deogratias: a Tale of Rwanda
- Fun Home
- Damsel
- Infandous
- Red Hood
- Tilt
- Black Brother, Black Brother
- 10,000 Dresses
- Speak
- Wishtree
- Blended
- My Rainbow
- Graceling
- Yolk
- Rift
- The Carnival at Bray
- Lush
- Dreaming in Cuban
- Homegoing
- Impulse
- Traffick
- I Never
- This Book is Anti-Racist
- Ace of Spades
- Tower of Dawn
- Heroine
- Doin It
- ttyl
- Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe
- All American Boys
- Ghost Boys
- Eleanor & Park
- I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
- The Berlin Boxing Club
- A Bad Boy Can Be Good For A Girl
- Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me
- Cemetery Boys
- The Glass Castle
- Doing it! Let’s Talk About Sex
- Flamer
- Call Me Max
- Gracefully Grayson
- Pride : the story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag
- From the Desk of Zoe Washington
- Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America
- Wide Awake
- The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
- People Kill People
- Last Night at the Telegraph Club
- A Court of Thorn and Roses
- Empire of Storms
- House of Earth and Blood
- Fade
- ttfn
- Beautiful
- Living Dead Girl: A Novel
- Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice
- Half of a Yellow Sun
- Gone Girl
- Grl2grl: Short Fictions
- Juliet Takes a Breath
- Blankets
- Baseball Saved Us
- The Poet X
- Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy
- How I Paid for College:
- Leah on the Offbeat
- The Upside of Unrequited
- Girls Like Us
- Beetle & the Hollowbones
- The House of the Spirits
- Hear These Voices
- We Are Not Your Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide
- Twisted
- Feed
- Go Ask Alice
- Alt Ed
- The Handmaid’s Tale
- Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place (a Transgender Memoir)
- Boy2Girl
- Ready or Not
- Ready or Not: An All-American Girl
- King and the Dragonflies
- Foul is Fair
- Draw Me a Star
- Hunted: A House of Night
- The Rape of Nanking
- City of Heavenly Fire
- Clockwork Princess
- Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
- The Kingdom of Little Wounds
- Little & Lion
- The Facts Speak For Themselves
- Mexican Whiteboy
- The Love Interest
- You Against Me
- Perfect Chemistry
- Who am I without him?…
- Dime
- Grit
- Hunger: A Memoir of my Body
- Not That Bad
- A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities
- Girl in Pieces
- Joshua and the City
- Cross My Heart
- You Too? 25 Voices Share Their MeToo Stories
- The Black Kids
- What We Saw
- Black Lives Matter: From a Moment to a Movement
- Collateral
- Fallout
- Love Lies Beneath
- Rumble
- Brave Face A Memoir
- We Are the Ants
- Brave New World
- Allegedly
- Grown
- Stained
- This is My America
- Exit, Pursued by a Bear
- The Black Friend
- They Called Me Red
- Ask the Passengers
- The Music of What Happens
- Trail of Crumbs
- My Book of Life by Angel
- I’ll Be the One
- Rape on campus
- Thanks A Lot, Universe
- Kingdom of Ash
- Charmed
- Light It Up
- Strange Fruit
- Did I Mention I Need You?
- Blood Water Paint
- Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice
- Red, White, and Royal blue
- Vampire Academy
- Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
- I am Alfonso Jones
- Brave Leaders and Activists
- Dumplin
- Ramona Blue
- Monster
- Shine
- The Magic Fish
- The Things They Carried
- The Witch Boy
- The Girl from the Sea
- Sisters=Hermanas
- My Sister’s Keeper
- The Tenth Circle
- Gabi: A Girl in Pieces
- Scars
- Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicholson
- Coming Out and Seeking Support
- Lucy Peale
- Fangirl
- Wayward Son
- The Midnight Lie
- Marvin Redpost: Is He a Girl?
- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
- Bait
- Rainbow Boys
- Persepolis
- The Lovely Bones
- Out of the Easy
- Safe
- Marriage of a Thousand Lies
- Grasshopper Jungle
- The Opposite of Innocent
- What My Mother Doesn’t Know
- Maus
- Novels for Students: Volume 9
- The Art of Racing in the Rain
- Of Mice and Men
- Bowery Girl
- #BlackLivesMatter: protesting racism
- Gossip Girl
- Spinning
- The Color Purple
- Empty
- The Prince and the Dressmaker
- A Certain Slant of Light
- What is Black Lives Matter?
- Beneath a Meth Moon
- Fable
- Black Enough
- This Place is Not My Home
- Sally and the Magical Sneeze
- My Name is Maria Isabel
- Time to Pray
- Thunder Boy Jr.
- Neither
- Eagle Song
- Winter Candle
- Lucky Broken Girl
- Berenstain Bears and the Big Question
- Most Valuable Players
- Grandmama’s Pride
- Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World
- Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match
- When Fred Gets Dressed
- Crazy Horse’s Vision
- First Strawberries
- Thirteen Moons on the Turtle’s Back
- Two Roads
- Eagle Feather
- Day’s Work
- One Green Apple
- Celebrating Different Beliefs
- Gaby, Lost and Found
- Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa
- Sam and the Lucky Money
- Name Jar
- The Pants Project
- Extra Credit
- Before She Was Harriet
- Sadako
- Thank You, Jackie Robinson
- Mud Pony
- Life of Rosa Parks
- Malala: A Hero for All
- Dream Come True: Coming to America from Vietnam
- Unstoppable
- Mighty Miss Malone
- The Watsons Go To Birmingham
- Case of Sense
- 14 Cows for America
- Legend of the Bluebonnet
- Islandborn
- Ashes to Asheville
- Abuela
- It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel
- Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop
- Dog Named Haku
- Drum Dream Girl
- Nadia’s Hands
- Lailah’s Lunchbox
- Jasmine Toguchi, Flamingo Keeper
- Calvin
- Frankie & Bug
- Diary of a Young Girl
- Double Life of Pocahontas
- Sam!
- Cow on the Town
- One Crazy Summer
- Lily and Dunkin
- Sound of Silence
- All Around Us
- Great Migration
- Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel
- Born on the Water
- Day of Ahmed’s Secret
- Night Diary
- Hush! A Thai Lullaby
- Amazing Grace
- Carter Reads the Newspaper
- Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys
- Big Bob Little Bob
- Soccer Star
- Brother Eagle, Sister Sky
- Sweet Smell of Roses
- Shark King
- Any Small Goodness
- Day of the Dead
- Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer
- My Two Dads and Me
- My Two Moms and Me
- Color of My Words
- Never Say A Mean Word Again
- Amina’s Voice
- Big Red Lollipop
- My Princess Boy
- Letter from a Birmingham Jail
- I See the Sun in Afghanistan
- Sonia Sotomayor
- Lost and Found Cat
- Little Piece of Ground
- Dash
- Running the Road to ABC
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- When Spring Comes to the DMZ
- Misadventures of the Family Fletcher
- Dim Sum for Everyone
- Starry River of the Sky
- Handful of Stars
- Flying the Dragon
- Long Pitch Home
- Encounter
- Too Bright to See
- Gift of Ramadan
- Going Down Home with Daddy
- Sing a Song
- And Still the Turtle Watched
- It Began with a Page
- When Angels Sing
- Fry Bread
- Gold-Threaded Dress
- Knots on a Counting Rope
- Rough-Face Girl
- Alma and How She Got Her Name
- Lubna and Pebble
- Juana & Lucas
- Swimming With Faith
- Early Sunday Morning
- Uncle Jed’s Barber Shop
- Drinking Gourd
- Love to Mama
- Dreamers
- Little Night
- Nino Wrestles the World
- Barbed Wire Baseball
- Proud (Young Reader’s Edition)
- Zen Shorts
- Yang the Third and Her Impossible Family
- Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear
- Daddy, Papa, and Me
- Thunder Rose
- Flag of Childhood
- Turtle of Oman
- Sulwe
- Family is a Family is a Family
- Dear Juno
- Nya’s Long Walk
- Pink is for Boys
- Best Man
- Between Us and Abuela
- Stonewall Riots
- Fatty Legs
- In Our Mother’s House
- My Mother’s Sari
- Wilma’s Way Home
- Dumpling Soup
- Who is the Dalai Lama?
- Pink!
- Hiawatha and the Peacemaker
- Were I Not A Girl
- Hero Two Doors Down
- Chik Chik Shabbat
- Lost Boys
- Moon Within
- Stonewall: A Building. An Uprising. A Revolution
- Ana on the Edge
- Stella Brings the Family
- Black Frontiers
- On Mother’s Lap
- Festival of Colors
- Climbing Lincoln’s Steps
- The Night Owl, From Dogfish
- Boy of the Three-Year Nap
- At the Mountain’s Base
- We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
- The List of Things That Will Not Change
- Radiant Child
- Henry Aaron’s Dream
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
- Grandfather Tang’s Story: A Tale Told with Tangrams
- Soldier for Equality
- Princess and the Warrior
- Hachiko
- Bracelet
- Dad, Jackie and Me
- Storm Called Katrina
- Fight for Freedom
- Totem Tale
- Looking for Bongo
- Other Words for Home
- Yoko
- Molly of Denali: Berry Itchy Day
- Four Feet, Two Sandals
- Indian No More
- Roberto Clemente
- My Name is Sally Little Song
- Coolies
- Garden of My Imaan
- Jacob’s New Dress
- Born a Crime
- Super Scary Stories
- The Boy in the Dress
- Clap When You Land
- Pet
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Worm Loves Worm
- Cinderella is Dead
- Queer – The Ultimate LGBT Guide for Teens
- Lexicon
- The Bad Guys In One
- White Privilege
- A Phoenix First Must Burn
- Felix Ever After
- Once and Future
- Something Happened in Our Town
- Brave
- The Miseducation of Cameron Post
- Romiette and Julio
- Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy, and Toxic Masculinity
- Ho’onani: Hula Warrior
- Full Disclosure
- Trans +
- Seeing Gender
- Prince & Knight
- Red: A Crayon’s Story
- Sex: A Book For Teens
- Unpregnant
- Ask Me How I Got Here
- Let’s Talk About Love
- Milk and Honey
- How to Be An Anti-Racist
- YOU: A Novel
- Autoboyography
- Another Day
- Every Day
- House of Sky and Breath
- Dead End
- Exit Here
- Dope Sick
- Sparkle Boy
- All the Bright Places
- The Family Book
- Being Transgender
- Normal People
- Birthday
- If I was Your Girl
- Me and White Supremacy
- Embrace
- They Both Die at the End
- The 57 Bus
- Not My Problem
- Dress Codes for Small Towns
- It’s Not Like It’s a Secret
- Rabbit is Rich
- Peanut Goes for Gold
- Slaughterhouse-Five
- The Art of Being Normal
- Amari and the Night Brothers- Book 1
- What Beauty There Is
- The Curse of the Night Witch
- Electric Slide and Kai
- The Inheritance Games
- Cranky Chicken
- The Poison Heart
- Invasion of the Unicorns
- Pixie Pushes On
- Scritch Scratch
- Milo Imagines the World
- J.D. and the Great Barber Battle
- Juliet and the Diamond Enigma
- What is White Privilege?
- Mad About Meatloaf
- Star Fish
- Carry Me Home
- The Littlest Yak
- You’d Be Home Now
- Shirley & Jamila Save Their Summer
- The Elephant in the Room
- Concealed
- The Smartest Kid in the Universe
- Rivals
- Ten Beautiful Things
- The Dark Matter of Mona Starr
- Ambitious Girl
- My Hero Academia Vigilantes vol. 1
- Rethinking Normal
- The Lion of Mars
- Stella
- What if Pig?
- I’m a Girl
- Mystery on Magnolia Circle
- Distress Signal
- Measuring Up
- The Hunger Heroes: Missed Meal Mayhem
- Ivy Lost and Found
- Dragon Ops
- Lola Benko Treasure Hunter
- The Beast and the Bethany
- Chester Van Chime Who Forgot to Rhyme
- A is for Activist
- A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
- Heather Has Two Mommies
- Words on Fire
- The Prison Healer
- XOXO
- BrainPop – Black Lives Matter Protests
- Angel of Greenwood
- Strange Planet The Sneaking Hiding
- 33 Snowfish
- Quintessence
- Girl from Nowhere
- The Girls I’ve Been
- Chez Bob
- The Million Dollar Race
- Leonard (My Life as a Cat)
- House of Hollow
- Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie of Doom
- Mel Fell
- Double the Danger and Zero Zucchini
- Katie the Catsitter
- Hard Wired
- The Middle Kid
- Someone Builds the Dream
- Shadow School Archimancy
- Instructions for Dancing
- In the Wild Light
