From Angelou to Vonnegut, Florida schools pulled hundreds of books last year
Florida school districts have axed about 700 additional books from school libraries, according to a Florida Department of ...
Hundreds of books pulled from Florida school libraries — including novels by Kurt Vonnegut, John Green and Toni Morrison
A 35-page list compiled by the Florida Department of Education outlines hundreds of books banned across the state's 73 school ...
Harper's Bazaar29d
A Florida Native Surveys the State’s War on Books
This summer I published a new novel, State of Paradise, and embarked on a book tour that included three stops in Florida, where I grew up. This was my first time doing bookstore events in my home ...
Ada Evening News12d
Not a turtle dove, but close
The birds later spread to Florida. I have read many books about birds over the ... To conclude, let me say that the next time ...
Miami New Times5d
10 Authors Not to Miss at the Miami Book Fair
Banned books include the life-affirming children's picture book Julian Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love and The Hate U Give by ...
Hindustan Times12d
Review: The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan
Amy Tan, whose new book The Backyard Bird Chronicles, started as a private nature journal of birds in her garden in Sausalito, came to birding as a response to American politics, specifically, ...
Miami New Times13d
Florida Banned the Most Books of Any U.S. State During the 2023-24 School Year
"The law requires that any book challenged for 'sexual conduct' must be removed during its review process," the report notes. Iowa trailed Florida by nearly a thousand bans, reporting 3,761.
The New York Times6d
Children’s Books
By Catherine Hong Advertisement 5 Picture Books About Space, From the Sublime to the Silly Works by Ada Limón and Peter Sís, Randy Cecil, Lucy Ruth Cummins and more depict the poetry ...
Orlando Sentinel12d
Florida again leads U.S. in book bans, new report finds
There were 4,561 instances of book banning in Florida public school districts last school year — accounting for about 45% of all book bans nationally, according to the report by PEN America ...
New York Post27d
Florida digs out of mountains of sand swept in by back-to-back hurricanes
In the meantime, Florida residents are continuing to dig out of the storm-driven sand, many of them by hand. “Every shovelful is heavy,” said West, the construction contractor. “This is ...
WLRN9d
Florida again tops the nation in school book removals, according to a report
Book removals are increasing across U.S. school libraries — and Florida remains in the lead. With about 4,500 book removals, the state topped the nation for the second year in a row. That's ...
New York Post5d
The best new books to read: Top releases, updated weekly
The latest from the chronicler of urban grit known for “Lush Life” and “Clockers” — as well as writing on “The Wire” TV series — is set in 2008 in East Harlem, where a five-story ...