Others often forbidden and contested authors include novelist Jodie Picul, manga author Yusey Matsui and author of children’s and young adults Elana K. Arnold.
The report lists the countries with the highest prohibition of books in 2024-25, such as Florida, with 2 304 cases; Texas (1,781); and Tennessee (1,622).
“Never in the life of any living American have been systematically removed from school libraries across the country. They have never had so many countries before, have not accepted laws or provisions to facilitate the ban on books, including prohibitions on specific titles across the country,” the PEN report said.
The authors of the Pen America report added that although many prohibitions were adopted at local and state level, the federal government uses new enforcement orders signed by President Trump on Take out certain titles from the schools of the Ministry of Defense of Military Bases; Nearly 600 titles were removed in July due to lack of aliking with executive orders related to variety., Discussions about race and “Extremism of gender ideology.”
In January the Ministry of Education issued a note in which he called a book prohibits a – Hoax“And cancel all federal guidelines that show that the elimination of” age -subject “books may be violations of civil rights laws.
Pen America also claims that the presentation of LGBTQ+ identity in books is often considered “sexually explicit”, including in pictures books And Tango makes threeThe tale of the true life of two male emperor penguins who hatch and raise a baby chick together at the zoo in the central park in New York and Purim’s superherowhose main character debates what costume a Jewish vacation should carry – and who has two fathers.
