ALA Releases Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2021

The American Library Assn. kicked off National Library Week with the release of its annual State of America’s Libraries report. In a release, ALA officials said library staff in every state faced “an unprecedented number of attempts to ban books” in 2021, with ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom tracking 729 challenges to library, school and university materials, resulting in more than 1,597 individual book challenges or removals.

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