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Stephen King removes most books from Florida schools in 2023-2024

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Stephen King removes most books from Florida schools in 2023-2024

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List of books removed or challenged in Florida schools revealed published over the weekendand the name of a writer stood out.

Even though it’s a classic book, it’s not Margaret Atwood “The Handmaid’s Tale” The fictional tale of a dystopian future where women are forced to procreate by religious extremists has been removed from shelves or restricted in five school districts. Nor was she the author of other perennial book-challenging targets, such as Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse Five,” Anne Frank’s “Diary of a Young Girl” or Maia Kobabe’s “Gender Queer.”

The author with the most books pulled from shelves by state in the 2023-2024 school year was the master of the terrifying Stephen King, and they were all from the same county.

The next closest were New York Times bestselling authors Ellen Hopkins, with 38 samples of 16 different young adult books in 11 boroughs, and Sarah J. Maas, with 35 samples of 13 fantasy books in 9 boroughs.

Clay County removed 68 books written by the popular and prolific horror author; These include some written under King’s pseudonym, Richard Bachman, some with collaborators, and even his nonfiction autobiography and writing guide, “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft.” But the total number could have been much higher.

Banned books? Hundreds of books from Florida schools are listed in the new DOE release. Here are the titles

Escambia County had to return books to shelves

Escambia County More than 1,600 books listed It includes 23 Steven King works, as well as hundreds of popular fiction books and literary classics, eight different encyclopedias and five dictionaries, waiting to be reviewed as of December 2023.

King in September house on Casey Key, the celebrity responded to this news a three word response “What…?” which is also not allowed in Florida classrooms. he began. His post on X, formerly Twitter, received 19.1 million views.

But after facing a federal lawsuit, Governorship returned the bookshowever, most are now restricted and some are still awaiting review. The state’s list does not show any books removed or challenged in Escambia County.

Which authors had the most books removed from school districts in Florida last year?

Many of these authors’ books have been removed or challenged in Florida schools for the 2023-2024 school year. Some books may be duplicates because different districts may have removed the same books.

  • Stephen King: 68
  • Ellen Hopkins: 38
  • Sarah J. Maas: 35
  • Jodi Picoult: 25
  • Alice Sebold: 14
  • Margaret Atwood: 10

Which Stephen King books were removed from a school district in Florida?

The following titles are taken from Clay County school shelves.

Grades K-12

  • “Appropriate Student”
  • “Carrie.”
  • “IT”
  • “Drawing of Three”
  • “Swordsman”
  • “Long Walk”
  • “stand”
  • “Tommyknockers”
  • “The Waste Lands”
  • “The Magician and the Glass Dark Tower IV”

9-12. classes

  • “1922”
  • “22.11.1963”
  • “Bag of Bones”
  • “Billy Summers”
  • “Black Palace (Talisman #2)”
  • “Flame”
  • “Blockade Billy”
  • “Cell”
  • “Christine”
  • “Cujo”
  • “Different Seasons”
  • “Doctor Sleep (Shining Part 2)”
  • “Dolores Claiborne”
  • “Dreamcatcher”
  • “End of Watch”
  • “All Is Final: 14 Dark Tales”
  • “Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges Trilogy, 2)”
  • “Fire starter”
  • “Four Past Midnight”
  • “From a Buick 8”
  • “Total Darkness, No Stars”
  • “Gwendy’s Button Box”
  • “Gwendy’s Last Mission”
  • “Hearts in Atlantis”
  • “In case it bleeds”
  • “Insomnia”
  • “Land of Joy”
  • “Just After Sunset”
  • “Lisey’s Story”
  • “Misery”
  • “Mr Mercedes”
  • “Necessary Things”
  • “Nightmares and Dreamscapes”
  • “On Writing: Memoirs of the Craft”
  • “Pet Sematary”
  • “Revival”
  • “Rose Madder”
  • “Salem’s Lot”
  • “Skeleton Crew”
  • “Sleeping Beauties”
  • “Susannah’s Song (The Dark Tower #6)”
  • “Stephen King’s Danse Macabre”
  • “Bachman Books”
  • “Bazaar of Bad Dreams”
  • “Dark Half”
  • “Dark Tower (#7”)
  • “Dead Zone”
  • “The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon”
  • “Green Mile”
  • “Institute”
  • “Fog”
  • “Foreign”
  • “Editors”
  • “Shining”
  • “Talisman (number 1 in the series)”
  • “Thinner”
  • “Under the Dome”
  • “Wolves of the Calla (Dark Tower #5)”

How many books has Florida banned?

This is a difficult question.

According to Communications Director Sydney Booker, who gave the same answer to all media questions on the subject, “There are no banned books in Florida and obscene materials do not belong in schools.

“Once again far-left activists are pushing the book ban hoax on Floridians,” Booker said in an email. “The better question is why these activists continue to fight to expose children to sexually explicit material.”

However, even though the state hasn’t officially banned anything, school districts in Florida, fearful of state retaliation or bandwagoning, have withdrawn thousands of books since book fights began to escalate several years ago. National freedom of expression group PEN America It has been reported that there are more More than 4,500 book bans in Florida in the 2023-24 school year, up from 1.406 the previous year and more than any other state in the country.

This follows the adoption of a law dated 2023 (HB 1069) requires that books be removed from shelves within five days of challenging allegations of content of sexual conduct or pornographic and “harmful to minors” material and remain on shelves until a review by a qualified representative is completed. The bill did not include a policy for anyone to object to the decision.

It should be understood that PEN America also uses a broader definition of what constitutes a banned book, including books removed by districts from school libraries and classroom shelves without formal objection, books withdrawn for review, and books restricted to students. Depends on class or parent permission.

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