Book bans in public schools kept rising during the first half of the 2022-23 school year, and nearly a third of them were the direct result of newly enacted state laws, a new PEN America report says.

CEO of PEN America, said in a statement. The report found 48 percent of titles banned in the last school year included themes or instances of violence and abuse, some of those including episodes ...

Books were banned in 5,049 schools with a combined enrollment of nearly 4 million students in 32 states, the report found. Because PEN America stuck to documented cases of bans, which included ...

As book banning seemingly becomes a trend across the United States, a new report from PEN America confirms a staggering leap in banning instances over the course of the current 2023-2024 school year.