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Louisa-Muscatine Community School District

30 titles banned · Iowa

Banned Books

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 All Boys Aren't Blue All Boys Aren't Blue Breathless Breathless Crank Crank Damsel Damsel Empire of Storms Empire of Storms Flamer Flamer Identical Identical Kingdom of Ash Kingdom of Ash l8r, g8r l8r, g8r Last Night at the Telegraph Club Last Night at the Telegraph Club Life Is Funny Life Is Funny Living Dead Girl Living Dead Girl Nineteen Minutes Nineteen Minutes Out of Darkness Out of Darkness Perfect Perfect Sold Sold Speak Speak The Bluest Eye The Bluest Eye The Carnival at Bray The Carnival at Bray The Handmaid's Tale The Handmaid's Tale The Kite Runner The Kite Runner The Perks of Being a Wallflower The Perks of Being a Wallflower Tilt Tilt Tricks Tricks Water for Elephants Water for Elephants
My Friend Dahmer

About Louisa-Muscatine Community School District

Louisa-Muscatine Community School District is a small, rural public school district in southeastern Iowa, serving students in and around Louisa County. Like many rural Iowa districts, it operates a limited number of school buildings serving a relatively small student population, and its library collections are correspondingly modest compared to those of larger urban or suburban districts in the state.

Books in Schools

This tracker currently lists 30 distinct titles that have been banned or challenged in Louisa-Muscatine Community School District. That figure places the district in the middle range compared with other Iowa districts tracked here, well below the counts reported in the state's largest districts but higher than many similarly sized rural districts, where challenges have often been limited to just a handful of titles or none at all.

Much of the recent removal activity in Iowa districts, including this one, follows from Iowa Senate File 496 (2023), a state law that placed new restrictions on the types of material permitted in school libraries and classrooms and required districts to review their collections for compliance. Districts across the state have responded to the law in varying ways, resulting in uneven patterns of removals from one district to the next. No verified news coverage specific to Louisa-Muscatine's implementation of these removals is currently available; this page will be updated if such reporting emerges. Readers interested in the specific titles affected in this district can find them listed elsewhere on this page.