Bad Books in Public Schools

Overview: some banned books shouldn't be, such as Huckleberry Finn, 1984, or Lord of the Rings.

Some books, however, are extremely graphic, and provided without any content warnings or parental notifications.

Many of these books I've personally read, so I'm not only speaking from having read reviews of them, but from my own experience. The content in many of these books is so graphic that I will not repeat it here; the Book Looks reviews are not censored, however, so reader be warned.

• Interviews:
  
  • Gary VanRiper
    • The Hitched Apologists: Removing Explicit Books in Schools with Gary VanRiper
    • Alisa Childers: New York Pastor Successfully Removes Graphic Material From Public Schools (And How You Can Too!)
  • Sarah Smith
    • Sarah Smith Addressing Las Cruces School Board (FB post)
• Articles
  • Clay Jones on Game of Thrones and Pornography (FB post)
  • Here be Dragons, by Kathryn Butler
    • The Gospel Coalition addressing 'romantasy'
  • Officer Gomez on Sex Trafficking/Prostitution among minors in school (FB post)
    • I'm including this because:
    • Children can become desensitized to sexually graphic activities and content via bad books. Once desensitized, they can be more prone to falling victim to the first and subsequent steps towards trafficking via sexual blackmail and prostitution.
• Resources
  • Book Looks
    • Now defunct:
      • "As of Sunday March 23, 2025 BookLooks.org will be ceasing operation and taking down all of our reports from the site. 
        It has been quite the ride with many ups and downs since God called us to this work in 2022, but after much prayer and reflection it has become apparent that His work for us here is complete and that He has other callings for us. 
        We give thanks to Him for the opportunity to do this work, and we are grateful for the kind words of support from all those who found this work useful. Our charge was always to help inform parents and it would appear that mission has been largely accomplished. We pray that publishers will take up the torch and be more transparent regarding explicit content in their books so that there will be no need for a BookLooks.org in the future. "
  • Take Back Your Classroom
  • New Mexico Freedoms Alliance: Porn in New Mexico Schools
• Common Bad Books
  • Sarah Maas
    • ACOTAR Series
  • Ellen Hopkins
    • Tricks series
  • Judy Blume
    • Forever

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