Clear Creek-Amana Community School District
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Clear Creek-Amana Community School District is a public school system serving communities in Johnson and Iowa counties in east-central Iowa. This page catalogs 226 titles documented as banned, challenged, or restricted within the district. The list may include books with varying levels of restriction, from formal removal to temporary withdrawal pending review.
About This District’s Book Restrictions
The 226 titles in this dataset do not include dates, initiation data, or action categories, meaning the specific circumstances and timing of individual removals are not reflected in the available records. The scope of the list nonetheless suggests a broad review process rather than isolated challenges to individual titles.
Several of the documented titles are among the most commonly challenged books in school libraries nationally. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas and Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez appear in the dataset, alongside The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky and Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher—both of which have been subject to repeated challenges across multiple states. And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, a picture book about two male penguins raising a chick at the Central Park Zoo, has been among the most frequently banned titles in the United States for more than a decade. Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender, a young adult novel featuring a Black, transgender protagonist, is also included.
About Clear Creek-Amana Community School District
Clear Creek-Amana Community School District serves students across parts of Johnson and Iowa counties in east-central Iowa, with a service area that includes the communities of Oxford, Tiffin, and the Amana Colonies region. The district’s name reflects two geographic landmarks: Clear Creek, which runs through the area, and the Amana Colonies, a cluster of seven villages founded in the mid-nineteenth century by members of the Community of True Inspiration, a German Pietist religious group. The colonies operated as a communal society until 1932 and are now a registered National Historic Landmark.
The district enrolls approximately 1,700 students across a small number of elementary, middle, and high school campuses. The surrounding region is primarily rural and agricultural, though the western portions of the service area border Iowa City and Coralville in Johnson County, home of the University of Iowa. That proximity gives the broader area a more varied demographic character than is typical of rural Iowa school districts.