← Iowa

Lake Mills Community School District

43 titles banned · Iowa

Banned Books

1984 1984 Brave New World Brave New World Burned Burned Chanda's secrets Chanda's secrets Drama: a Graphic Novel Drama: a Graphic Novel Everything, Everything Everything, Everything Go Ask Alice Go Ask Alice I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Lily and Dunkin Lily and Dunkin Looking for Alaska Looking for Alaska Mercy Mercy My Sister's Keeper My Sister's Keeper Nineteen Minutes Nineteen Minutes Paper Towns Paper Towns Pet Pet Sold Sold 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 Color Purple The Color Purple The Fault in Our Stars The Fault in Our Stars The Hate U Give The Hate U Give They Both Die at the End They Both Die at the End Thirteen Reasons Why Thirteen Reasons Why Twilight Twilight Water for Elephants Water for Elephants Where the Crawdads Sing Where the Crawdads Sing
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Ashes to Asheville
It's Not Summer Without You
It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health
Maus 1: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
The Best at It
The Best Man
The Catcher in the Rye
The Family Book
The House of Hades
The Parker Inheritance
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Summer I Turned Pretty
The Sun Is Also a Star
The Weight of Blood
We'll Always Have Summer
When You Trap A Tiger

About Lake Mills Community School District

Lake Mills Community School District is a public school district serving the city of Lake Mills and surrounding communities in Winnebago County, in north-central Iowa near the Minnesota border. Like other Iowa districts, it operates under state curriculum and library-material requirements that have shaped how schools review and shelve books in recent years.

Books in Schools

This page tracks 43 distinct titles that have been identified as banned or challenged within Lake Mills Community School District. That places the district in a middle tier compared with other Iowa districts tracked on this site, well below the largest urban and suburban systems but still a notable count for a district of its size.

Much of the recent activity in Iowa districts, including this one, follows from Iowa Senate File 496 (2023), which imposed new restrictions on library materials and age-appropriateness standards in public schools statewide. The law prompted many districts to conduct broad reviews of their library collections, leading to the removals and restrictions reflected in the count above. No verified news coverage specific to Lake Mills Community School District is available at this time; this page will be updated as reporting becomes available.