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73 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 Game of Thrones A Game of Thrones Alice Austen Lived Here Alice Austen Lived Here All the Things We Do in the Dark All the Things We Do in the Dark And Tango Makes Three And Tango Makes Three Empire of Storms Empire of Storms Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Gender Identity Gender Identity Grown Grown History Is All You Left Me History Is All You Left Me Identical Identical Impulse Impulse It It Kingdom of Ash Kingdom of Ash Last Night at the Telegraph Club Last Night at the Telegraph Club Like a Love Story Like a Love Story Lily and Dunkin Lily and Dunkin Looking for Alaska Looking for Alaska Melissa (formerly published as GEORGE) Melissa (formerly published as GEORGE) Nineteen Minutes Nineteen Minutes Parachutes Parachutes People Kill People People Kill People Perfect Perfect Red, White & Royal Blue Red, White & Royal Blue Rumble Rumble Shine Shine SHOUT SHOUT The Freedom Writers Diary The Freedom Writers Diary The Handmaid's Tale The Handmaid's Tale The Kite Runner The Kite Runner The Nowhere Girls The Nowhere Girls The Perks of Being a Wallflower The Perks of Being a Wallflower Thirteen Reasons Why Thirteen Reasons Why Tilt Tilt Tower of Dawn Tower of Dawn Tricks Tricks
Crushing it
Falling Hard: 100 Love Poems by Teenagers
Girl Online: The First Novel by Zoella
Gracefully Grayson
Hurricane Child
I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice and Hope
I'm With Cupid
Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World

About Dallas Center-Grimes Community School District

Dallas Center-Grimes Community School District serves students in Dallas County, Iowa, in the Des Moines metropolitan area. Like other public school systems in the state, the district maintains school libraries and classroom collections that are subject to Iowa's statewide review requirements for instructional and library materials.

Books in Schools

This page tracks 73 distinct titles that have been banned or challenged in Dallas Center-Grimes Community School District. That figure places the district among the more active Iowa districts tracked on this site in terms of the number of titles affected, though the scale varies considerably from one Iowa district to another. Much of the review activity in Iowa districts since 2023 has followed from Iowa Senate File 496, a state law that set new restrictions on library materials in schools and required districts to remove books depicting sex acts from their collections. No verified news coverage of the specific review process in this district has been identified at this time.