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St. John's County School District

115 titles banned · Florida

Banned Books

33 Snowfish 33 Snowfish A Clash of Kings A Clash of Kings A Clockwork Orange A Clockwork Orange A Game of Thrones A Game of Thrones A Home for Goddesses and Dogs A Home for Goddesses and Dogs A Picture Book of Anne Frank A Picture Book of Anne Frank A Song Only I Can Hear A Song Only I Can Hear A Stolen Life A Stolen Life All American Boys All American Boys All Summer Long All Summer Long Allies Allies Black Panther Black Panther Born Ready Born Ready Breathless Breathless Copper sun Copper sun Dark life Dark life Dime Dime Drama: a Graphic Novel Drama: a Graphic Novel Families Around the World Families Around the World Families Families Families Families Families Families Fire Force Fire Force Half of a Yellow Sun Half of a Yellow Sun Home at Last Home at Last Maniac Magee Maniac Magee Melissa (formerly published as GEORGE) Melissa (formerly published as GEORGE) Minecraft Volume 2 (Graphic Novel) Minecraft Volume 2 (Graphic Novel) Monday's Not Coming Monday's Not Coming My Sister's Keeper My Sister's Keeper Nineteen Minutes Nineteen Minutes On the Come Up On the Come Up Our Subway Baby Our Subway Baby Out of Darkness Out of Darkness Project Mulberry Project Mulberry Ready Player One Ready Player One Storm and Fury Storm and Fury The Almost Moon The Almost Moon The DUFF The DUFF The Fault in Our Stars The Fault in Our Stars The Hate U Give The Hate U Give Tower of Dawn Tower of Dawn Wicked Wicked
Almost There and Almost Not
As the Crow Flies
Billie Jean! How Tennis Star Billie Jean King Changed Women's Sports
Blended
Check & Mate
Code-Breaker and Mathematician Alan Turing
Coldest Girl in Coldtown

About St. John's County School District

St. John's County School District serves students in St. Johns County, located in northeast Florida along the state's Atlantic coast, south of Jacksonville. Like other Florida public school systems, the district operates under state statutes governing the review and removal of instructional and library materials, and it maintains its own procedures for handling formal challenges to books available to students.

Books in Schools

This page tracks 115 distinct titles that have been banned or challenged within St. John's County School District. That volume places the district among the more active in Florida for book removals and challenges, reflecting the broader wave of scrutiny school libraries statewide have faced in recent years. Much of this activity follows from Florida House Bill 1467 (2022), which expanded requirements for transparency and review of school library and instructional materials and gave parents and community members new avenues to formally object to specific titles. Local coverage of book removals in the district has been reported by News4JAX (report), documenting how the review process has played out for parents, students, and school officials. The titles tracked here represent challenges and removals identified through public records and reporting, rather than an exhaustive account of every review conducted by the district.