The Book News We Covered This Week
Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Here are the stories we covered this week at Book Riot.
Utah passed one of the strictest bills related to textbooks in public schools in 2024. house bill 29 (HB 29) Allows parents to challenge books they deem to have “sensitive content” and it bans books outright from all public schools in the state if those books are deemed to contain “objective sensitive content” or “obscene” in at least three public school districts or two public school districts and five charter schools, according to state code. This bill came into effect on July 1, 2024 It started with 13 titles.
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