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Central Lyon Community School District

66 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 Thorns and Roses A Court of Thorns and Roses A Court of Wings and Ruin A Court of Wings and Ruin Book Lovers Book Lovers Boy Toy Boy Toy Brave New World Brave New World Breathless Breathless Burned Burned Collateral Collateral Confess Confess Crank Crank Every Summer After Every Summer After Fallout Fallout Finding Perfect Finding Perfect Glass Glass Identical Identical Impulse Impulse It Ends with Us It Ends with Us Living Dead Girl Living Dead Girl Looking for Alaska Looking for Alaska Maybe not Maybe not Maybe Now Maybe Now Maybe someday Maybe someday Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Perfect Perfect Point Of Retreat Point Of Retreat Ready Or Not Ready Or Not Regretting You Regretting You The Color Purple The Color Purple The Fault in Our Stars The Fault in Our Stars The Hate U Give The Hate U Give The Kite Runner The Kite Runner The Perks of Being a Wallflower The Perks of Being a Wallflower Their Eyes Were Watching God Their Eyes Were Watching God Thirteen Reasons Why Thirteen Reasons Why Tricks Tricks Water for Elephants Water for Elephants Where the Crawdads Sing Where the Crawdads Sing
All Your Perfects
Archer's Voice
As I Lay Dying
Finding Cinderella
Happy Place
Heart Bones
Hopeless
It Starts with Us
Layla

About Central Lyon Community School District

Central Lyon Community School District is a public school district in Lyon County, in the far northwest corner of Iowa, near the borders with South Dakota and Minnesota. Like other rural Iowa districts, it serves a small number of schools covering a wide geographic area, with the town of Rock Rapids as its hub.

Books in Schools

This tracker currently lists 66 distinct titles that have been banned or challenged in Central Lyon Community School District. That figure is notable for a district of its size, and it reflects a broader pattern seen across many small Iowa districts in recent years rather than an isolated local dispute. Much of this activity follows Iowa Senate File 496, a 2023 state law that restricted certain library materials in schools and prompted districts statewide to review and remove titles from their collections. As with many rural districts, local reporting on these removals is limited, so this page relies primarily on district records and statewide tracking efforts rather than news coverage specific to Central Lyon. Visitors interested in the details of what was removed, and when, can consult the title-by-title listing elsewhere on this page.