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Indianola Community School District

38 titles banned · Iowa

Banned Books

1984 1984 A Child Called "It" A Child Called "It" Beloved Beloved Beyond Magenta Beyond Magenta Brave New World Brave New World Breaking Dawn Breaking Dawn Breathless Breathless Flamer Flamer Forever . . . Forever . . . Go Ask Alice Go Ask Alice I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Identical Identical Last Night at the Telegraph Club Last Night at the Telegraph Club Looking for Alaska Looking for Alaska Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Monster Monster Nineteen Minutes Nineteen Minutes Ready Or Not Ready Or Not Song of Solomon Song of Solomon The Bluest Eye The Bluest Eye The Carnival at Bray The Carnival at Bray The Color Purple The Color Purple The Female of the Species The Female of the Species The Glass Castle The Glass Castle The Handmaid's Tale The Handmaid's Tale The Hate U Give The Hate U Give The Haters The Haters The Infinite Moment of Us The Infinite Moment of Us The Kite Runner The Kite Runner The Nowhere Girls The Nowhere Girls Their Eyes Were Watching God Their Eyes Were Watching God Tilt Tilt Water for Elephants Water for Elephants
Flowers for Algernon
Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan
The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
The Long Walk
Two Boys Kissing

About Indianola Community School District

Indianola Community School District serves the city of Indianola and surrounding areas in Warren County, Iowa, just south of the Des Moines metropolitan area. Like other public school systems in the state, the district maintains school libraries and classroom collections across its elementary, middle, and high school buildings, and is subject to Iowa's statewide requirements governing instructional materials.

Books in Schools

This page tracks 38 distinct titles that have been reported as banned or challenged within Indianola Community School District. That figure places the district in the middle range compared to other Iowa school systems tracked on this site, some of which report considerably higher or lower counts depending on local review practices and reporting.

Much of the review activity in Iowa districts in recent years has followed Senate File 496, a 2023 state law that placed new restrictions on the age-appropriateness of materials in school libraries and required removal of books depicting certain sexual content. Districts across the state, including Indianola, have had to evaluate existing collections against this standard. No independently verified news coverage specific to Indianola's book review process is currently available; this page will be updated as reporting on the district emerges.