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Alta-Aurelia Community Schools

56 titles banned · Iowa

Banned Books

A Queer History of the United States A Queer History of the United States Ace of Spades Ace of Spades Afterworlds Afterworlds Breaking Dawn Breaking Dawn Burned Burned Draw the line Draw the line Eclipse Eclipse Going Viral: A Socially Distant Love Story Going Viral: A Socially Distant Love Story Looking for Alaska Looking for Alaska New Moon New Moon Nineteen Minutes Nineteen Minutes The 57 Bus The 57 Bus The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian The Fault in Our Stars The Fault in Our Stars The Kite Runner The Kite Runner The Lovely Bones The Lovely Bones The Poet X The Poet X Twilight Twilight
A Different Season
Athletic Shorts
Being You
Chinese Handcuffs
Chlamydia
Cinderella Is Dead
Class Act
Days of Infamy: How A Century of Bigotry Led to Japenese American Internment
Endometriosis
Feminism
Genital Herpes
Gonorrhea
Gwendy's Final Task
Having Young
Heartstopper, Vol. 1
Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction
Marriage Rights and Gay Rights: Interpretating the Constitution
Maus 1: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Middle School's a Drag, You Better Werk!
New Kid
Prince and Knight
Protests and Riots
Reflection: A Twisted Tale
Rick
Rise to the Sun
Solitaire
Syphilis
The Cardboard Kingdom
The Chocolate War
The Face on the Milk Carton

About Alta-Aurelia Community Schools

Alta-Aurelia Community Schools is a small public school district serving the Alta and Aurelia communities in Buena Vista and Cherokee counties in northwest Iowa. Like other rural Iowa districts, it operates a limited number of school buildings serving students across grade levels, with library and curriculum decisions made at the district level in accordance with state law.

Books in Schools

This page tracks 56 distinct titles that have been reported as banned or challenged in Alta-Aurelia Community Schools. That figure places the district on the smaller end among Iowa districts tracked here, many of which have reported challenge counts well into the hundreds. As in other Iowa districts, the removals largely stem from compliance efforts tied to Iowa Senate File 496, a 2023 state law that restricts library materials depicting sex acts and regulates instructional content related to gender identity and sexual orientation in K-12 schools. The law prompted many Iowa districts, including smaller ones like Alta-Aurelia, to review and remove titles from school library shelves in order to align with the new statutory requirements. No verified news coverage specific to Alta-Aurelia's book removals is currently available; this page will be updated if reporting on the district's specific actions emerges.