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ALA Releases Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2024

2 weeks ago | publishersweekly.com | Sophia Stewart |George Johnson |Maia Kobabe |Ellen Hopkins

The American Library Association kicked off National Library Week 2025 with its annual report on the state of the nation’s libraries, including the top 10 most challenged books of 2024. All Boys Aren’t Blue, George M. Johnson’s YA memoir about growing up Black and queer, surpassed Maia Kobabe’s Gender-Queer, which had topped the list two years in a row, as the most challenged title of last year.
ACLU joins educators in opposing first round of statewide book bans, regulations

Oct 31, 2024 | abccolumbia.com | Ellen Hopkins

A subcommittee of the South Carolina State Board of Education will hold a meeting to review the first round of state-sponsored book bans on Thursday. Of the 11 titles being challenged, an unknown reviewer recommended that eight titles be banned, and three be retained. Based on the given review forms, decisions were made using Moms for Liberty’s preferred rating system, a site that allegedly takes “objectionable” passages out of context in order to facilitate bans.
SYNC | Kirkus Reviews

Aug 29, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Ellen Hopkins |Daniel O. Aleman |Stephanie Garber

A gritty, powerful novel in verse that follows California siblings as they navigate the foster care system. After a rough placement at age 12, twins Storm and Lake were separated by the state and haven’t seen each other since. Storm has been in juvie, though he’s finally settled, with a decent foster parent and a new girlfriend, Jaidyn. Lake’s position living with a strict Christian family is tenuous, complicated by the fact that she’s falling for her lesbian roommate, Parker.
ELLEN HOPKINS – SYNC - KSUX 1057

Aug 26, 2024 | ksux.com | Ellen Hopkins

Author: Ellen HopkinsBook: SYNCPublishing: Nancy Paulsen Books (August 27, 2024)https://kscj.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Ellen_Hopkins_to_air.mp3Synopsis (from the Publisher):From #1 NYT bestselling author Ellen Hopkins comes a new heartbreaking young adult novel in verse about twins separated in the foster care system and the different paths their lives take. Seventeen-year-old twins Storm and Lake have always been in perfect sync.
ELLEN HOPKINS - SYNC

Aug 26, 2024 | kscj.com | Brian Vakulskas |Ellen Hopkins

Author: Ellen HopkinsBook: SYNCPublishing: Nancy Paulsen Books (August 27, 2024) https://kscj.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Ellen_Hopkins_to_air.mp3Synopsis (from the Publisher):From #1 NYT bestselling author Ellen Hopkins comes a new heartbreaking young adult novel in verse about twins separated in the foster care system and the different paths their lives take. Seventeen-year-old twins Storm and Lake have always been in perfect sync.
Utah bans 13 books in public schools statewide, including Judy Blume and Margaret Atwood titles

Aug 9, 2024 | wbal.com | A Benin Court |Sarah J. Maas |Elana K. Arnold |Ellen Hopkins

(NEW YORK) — Utah placed a blanket ban on at least 13 books in schools, including works by Sarah J. Maas, Judy Blume, Rupi Kaur, Margaret Atwood and other authors, in what free speech advocates say is the first state book ban. The Utah State Board of Education put together a list of titles that have met the statewide threshold for removal based on a newly enforced law. H.B. 29, signed by Gov.
Poetry from Daily Life: Only you can write a poem in your voice

May 11, 2024 | news-leader.com | Ellen Hopkins

Ellen HopkinsSpecial to the News-LeaderThis week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Ellen Hopkins, who lives in Cape Girardeau. She has been a writer for more than thirty years and particularly likes to write contemporary verse novels. She refers to some of her best poetry in People Kill People, a hybrid verse/prose novel in which the voice of violence is cast in verse, calling to the characters, written in second person, who invite readers to “become” them.
What Young People Can Do About Book Bans: Book Censorship News, April 12, 2024

Apr 12, 2024 | bookriot.com | Ellen Hopkins |Patricia Mccormick

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. This week, Kelly Jensen is on a well-deserved break, so we’re doing a more condensed version of her inimitable weekly censorship round-up: fellow editors Danika Ellis and Erica Ezeifedi have each picked a few of the censorship stories of the last week to highlight.
NY voters to decide if small city school districts can have higher debt limits

Nov 2, 2023 | wxxinews.org | Cara Chapman |Ellen Hopkins

(NCPR) New York voters have two constitutional amendments to consider this election. One aims to allow the state’s 57 small city school districts — those at least partly located in cities with fewer than 125,000 people, like Plattsburgh, Glens Falls and Watertown — to take on more debt for things like big capital projects. Most school districts in New York state can incur debt that’s up to 10% of the value of the taxable real estate in their districts.
Burying power lines could help prevent Californian wildfires. Who should pay for it?

Nov 2, 2023 | wxxinews.org | Kevin Stark |Ellen Hopkins

PG&E, whose equipment started some of California's deadliest fires, proposes burying power lines in some areas. Local regulators have pushed back, citing costs. (Story aired on ACT on Nov. 1, 2023.) Copyright 2023 KQED