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50 titles banned · Iowa

Banned Books

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 A Game of Thrones A Game of Thrones A Stolen Life A Stolen Life Beloved Beloved Concrete Rose Concrete Rose Crank Crank Empire of Storms Empire of Storms Fallout Fallout Felix Ever After Felix Ever After Glass Glass Grown Grown I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings It It Jesus Land Jesus Land Last Night at the Telegraph Club Last Night at the Telegraph Club Living Dead Girl Living Dead Girl Looking for Alaska Looking for Alaska Native Son Native Son Nineteen Minutes Nineteen Minutes Ordinary Hazards Ordinary Hazards Queen of Shadows Queen of Shadows SHOUT SHOUT Sold Sold Song of Solomon Song of Solomon Speak Speak The Art of Racing in the Rain The Art of Racing in the Rain The Bluest Eye The Bluest Eye The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo The Handmaid's Tale The Handmaid's Tale The Kite Runner The Kite Runner The Lovely Bones The Lovely Bones The Perks of Being a Wallflower The Perks of Being a Wallflower Tower of Dawn Tower of Dawn Traffick Traffick Tricks Tricks Water for Elephants Water for Elephants Where the Crawdads Sing Where the Crawdads Sing
Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen
How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe
Laughing at My Nightmare
Love In The Time Of Global Warming
Spinning
Stitches: A Memior
Sula
When I was Puerto Rican: A Memoir
Wintergirls

About Grundy Center Community School District

Grundy Center Community School District is a small public school system based in Grundy Center, in Grundy County, Iowa. Like other rural Iowa districts, it serves a mix of elementary, middle, and high school students within the surrounding community and outlying areas.

Books in Schools

This tracker currently lists 50 distinct titles that have been banned or challenged in Grundy Center Community School District. That figure places it among the more active districts tracked in Iowa, though it remains well below the totals recorded in the state's largest school systems. Much of the review activity in Iowa districts since 2023 has followed from Iowa Senate File 496, which set new statewide standards for school library content and prompted widespread reassessment of materials in classrooms and libraries across the state. As with many smaller districts, no independent news coverage of Grundy Center's specific book removals has been identified at this time; this page will be updated if verified reporting becomes available.