When Wilma Rudolph Played Basketball by Mark Weakland

They then forced school administrators to review them to be pulled, according to NBCNews.īooks such as Drama by Raina Telgemeier and When Wilma Rudolph Played Basketball by Mark Weakland, were on the ban list.ĭrama by Raina Telgemeier is about a young, high school girl who is in the technical department of her drama program. Some parents have gotten involved as well and filled out paperwork to formally challenge if certain books were appropriate enough for an educational setting. Last year, State Representative Matt Krause sent school districts a list of 850 books be investigated. 19 of these school districts are in the state of Texas. Approximately 115 school districts across the country have initiated or passed policies to remove race-related or LGBTQ-related books off the shelves. By the beginning of February, Maus was Amazon’s number one bestselling book, and it is not alone among other books gaining popularity after being targeted in the recent spate of book bans initiated by school districts across the country.Ĭurrently in the United States of America, there are over 20 states where there are permanent book bans within school districts according to the tracking efforts of Red Wine & Blue Education Fund.

On Jan 10, the McCinn County School Board in Tennessee voted to ban Maus, the Pulitzer-prize winning autobiographical graphic novel about surviving the Holocaust. As school districts ban books across the U.S., they are also sending banned books to the bestsellers list.