The Texas Department of Criminal Justice will no longer allow books with hard covers in an effort to prevent drugs from getting into their facilities, they announced Friday.

Across the U.S., there’s been a steady climb in such state bills, which target libraries by demanding they keep certain books ...

(Evan Agostini | Invision/AP) Stephen King attends the 2018 PEN Literary Gala at the American Museum of Natural History in New York on Tuesday, May 22, 2018. His 1998 novel "Bag of Bones" was added to ...

A yearslong effort by some local residents to remove or restrict kids' access to certain adult books from Garfield County's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Amanda Darrow, director of youth, family and education programs at the Utah Pride Center, holds a copy of Kabobe's graphic ...

Books-Unbanned Network FILE - Amanda Darrow, director of youth, family and education programs at the Utah Pride Center, holds a copy of Kabobe's graphic memoir "Gender Queer," on a stack of other ...

Ban This!' offers advice to other students and educators on how to fight book ban fights, which have become increasingly ...

We might rarely get to see snowfall in Los Angeles, but logging onto social media in December means the arrival of a different kind of flurry. The one where our friends, both close and parasocial, ...

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This holiday season, librarian Jennie Pu has put together a reading list of banned or frequently challenged books. She said they are titles that may have stirred up controversy but have also opened ...

LAKELAND, Fla. — There are more than 700 books that are banned in public schools in Florida. It might not sound like a lot, but for two students in Polk County, the list has sparked a desire to learn ...