Ted Bundy FSU murders: Novel sheds light on 'Bright Young Women' who went through ordeal
Ted Bundy unleased terror over a Florida State University sorority. One novel seeks to tell a new story of the murders ...
Florida book challenges extend their reach from schools to public libraries
The big story: Florida’s debate over the appropriateness of children’s books has begun shifting from schools to public ...
'Anti-trans bias': Florida school district met with blowback for banning LGBTQ+ book
Penguin Random House, along with national free expression organization PEN America, said in a Tuesday letter to the Escambia ...
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Holocaust novel by Jodi Picoult removed as Florida school district purges libraries to comply with state law
The removal of “The Storyteller” was the latest example of books with Jewish content being targeted by book-banning efforts. (JTA) – A Holocaust-themed novel by bestselling author Jodi ...
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Florida high school pulls graphic novel adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary, saying it is ‘not age appropriate’
Anne’s father Otto Frank restored the former passage for the book’s 1952 English edition, while the latter was not restored to the diary until the 1980s. Another Florida parent in a different ...
A Florida school district banned a book about banned books
Alan Gratz’s “Ban This Book” tells the tale of a fourth-grader’s quest to bring her favorite book back to the school library ...
From Angelou to Vonnegut, Florida schools pulled hundreds of books last year
“There are no books banned in Florida, and sexually explicit materials do not belong in schools,” she wrote in a statement.