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Adel DeSoto Minburn Community School District

71 titles banned · Iowa

Banned Books

A Court of Frost and Starlight A Court of Frost and Starlight A Court of Mist and Fury A Court of Mist and Fury A Court of Silver Flames A Court of Silver Flames A Court of Thorns and Roses A Court of Thorns and Roses A Court of Wings and Ruin A Court of Wings and Ruin A Flicker in the Dark A Flicker in the Dark A Long Walk to Water A Long Walk to Water A Painted House A Painted House Alice Austen Lived Here Alice Austen Lived Here Believe Me Believe Me Burned Burned Burning Midnight Burning Midnight Crank Crank Damsel Damsel Drama: a Graphic Novel Drama: a Graphic Novel Empire of Storms Empire of Storms Fallout Fallout Glass Glass I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Identical Identical Impulse Impulse Kingdom of Ash Kingdom of Ash Looking for Alaska Looking for Alaska Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Melissa (formerly published as GEORGE) Melissa (formerly published as GEORGE) Milk and Honey Milk and Honey Nineteen Minutes Nineteen Minutes Perfect Perfect Red, White & Royal Blue Red, White & Royal Blue Regretting You Regretting You Rumble Rumble The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian The Color Purple The Color Purple The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo The Kite Runner The Kite Runner The Lovely Bones The Lovely Bones The Perks of Being a Wallflower The Perks of Being a Wallflower Tilt Tilt Traffick Traffick Tricks Tricks
10,000 Days of Thunder: A History of the Vietnam War
Angela's Ashes
Biology the Unity and Diversity of Life
Gone Girl
Heart Bones
Rick
Smoke
Snow Falling on Cedars

About Adel DeSoto Minburn Community School District

Adel DeSoto Minburn Community School District serves the communities of Adel, De Soto, and Minburn in Dallas County, Iowa, part of the Des Moines metropolitan area. Like other Iowa public school systems, the district maintains libraries and classroom collections across its elementary, middle, and high school buildings, and is subject to state requirements governing the review and availability of instructional and library materials.

Books in Schools

This tracker currently lists 71 distinct titles that have been banned or challenged within the Adel DeSoto Minburn Community School District. That figure places the district among the more active examples of book removal activity documented among Iowa school systems in this tracker, though the exact ranking shifts as more districts are reviewed. Much of the recent activity in Iowa districts, including this one, follows from Iowa Senate File 496, a 2023 law that restricts library materials depicting sex acts and requires books in school libraries to be "age appropriate," prompting many districts to review and remove titles from their collections. No verified news coverage of this district's specific removals is available at this time.