Books about the Holocaust, the Civil War, race and religion have been pulled from school library shelves in Monroe County. 10News filed an open records request for a list of the 574 titles pulled to comply with Tennessee’s Age-Appropriate Materials Act, which recently went into effect this summer after the law was amended in 2024.
Some books included classics like “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Others were highlighted nationally as the target of book bans, such as “The 57 Bus” and “The Perks of Being a Wallflower.” Other titles are usually studied in classrooms, including “Of Mice and Men,” “Fahrenheit 451,” “Lord of the Flies,” and “The Outsiders.”
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