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Clarion-Goldfield-Dows Community School District

34 titles banned · Iowa

Banned Books

Beyond Magenta Beyond Magenta Burned Burned Collateral Collateral Crank Crank Damsel Damsel Fallout Fallout Glass Glass I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Identical Identical If They Come for Us If They Come for Us Impulse Impulse Last Night at the Telegraph Club Last Night at the Telegraph Club Looking for Alaska Looking for Alaska Lucky Lucky Maybe someday Maybe someday Native Son Native Son Nineteen Minutes Nineteen Minutes Red, White & Royal Blue Red, White & Royal Blue Rumble Rumble Shine Shine 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 Female of the Species The Female of the Species Thirteen Reasons Why Thirteen Reasons Why Tilt Tilt Traffick Traffick Tricks Tricks
Carry On
Smoke
The Burning God
The Dragon Republic
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

About Clarion-Goldfield-Dows Community School District

Clarion-Goldfield-Dows Community School District is a small, rural public school system in north-central Iowa, serving students in and around Wright County. Like many consolidated districts in the region, it operates a limited number of school buildings serving the surrounding communities of Clarion, Goldfield, and Dows.

Books in Schools

This tracker currently lists 34 distinct titles that have been banned or challenged within the district. That figure places Clarion-Goldfield-Dows toward the lower-to-middle range of activity compared with other Iowa districts tracked on this site, many of which report either far fewer or considerably more titles. As in the rest of Iowa, review and removal decisions in this district have taken place against the backdrop of Senate File 496, the 2023 state law that restricts school library materials depicting sex acts and instructional content related to gender identity and sexual orientation for students through sixth grade, and that requires districts to publish lists of materials removed under its provisions. Compliance with that law is the most likely driver behind at least some of the titles recorded here, though individual review records are not always public or detailed enough to confirm the specific reason for each removal. No independently verified news coverage specific to this district's book removals is currently available; this page will be updated if credible reporting emerges. Readers interested in the underlying data should consult the district's own published records where available, alongside the broader statewide figures tracked elsewhere on this site.