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Northeast Community School District

38 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 Crank Crank Escape Escape Fade Fade Fallout Fallout Forrest Gump Forrest Gump I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Identical Identical Living Dead Girl Living Dead Girl Looking for Alaska Looking for Alaska Lucky Lucky Nineteen Minutes Nineteen Minutes Perfect Perfect Perfect Chemistry Perfect Chemistry Push Push Sold Sold The Almost Moon The Almost Moon The Bluest Eye The Bluest Eye The DUFF The DUFF 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 Thirteen Reasons Why Thirteen Reasons Why Tilt Tilt Tricks Tricks Water for Elephants Water for Elephants Where the Crawdads Sing Where the Crawdads Sing
Asking For It
Going Bovine
Learning to Swim a Memoir
Memoirs of a Geisha
Pink Is for Boys
Smoke
The Cider House Rules
The Goldfinch
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

About Northeast Community School District

Northeast Community School District is a public school district serving a rural community in northeast Iowa. Like other Iowa districts, it operates elementary, middle, and high school programs under state curriculum and library-materials guidelines, and has been subject to statewide requirements affecting what titles may be shelved or assigned in school libraries and classrooms.

Books in Schools

This tracker currently lists 38 distinct titles that have been banned or challenged within Northeast Community School District. That figure places the district in the lower-to-middle range compared to other Iowa districts tracked here, many of which have reported similar or larger numbers of affected titles. Much of the removal activity in Iowa districts, including this one, follows from Iowa Senate File 496 (2023), which set new statewide standards for age-appropriate library materials in schools and prompted widespread reviews of existing collections. No independent news coverage of Northeast Community School District's specific removals has been verified at this time; this page will be updated as reporting becomes available.