Judy Blume, James Patterson and Michael Connelly are among 24 prominent writers who have raised more than $3 million to help PEN America open a center in Miami and expand it efforts to counter Florida’s surge in book bannings in recent years.

A children’s book author and a group of parents filed a federal lawsuit against Lake County Schools over the school board’s decision to restrict access to a children’s book.

In 2022, The American Library Association documented 1,269 requests to remove books from libraries across the United States – the most the organization ever recorded.

The 2022-23 school year is coming to a close, but students and teachers are still seeing people pushing to pull certain books from the shelves within districts across the nation.

In the last year, there have been more than 2,500 instances of books being pulled from shelves in schools across the U.S. as conservative groups coordinate efforts to target books for numerous reasons, typically related to race or gender themes.

The Kurt Vonnegut Museum is donating copies of Slaughterhouse-Five after the book was removed from a Bayside High School class.