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Pocahontas Area Community School District

33 titles banned · Iowa

Banned Books

1984 1984 Beloved Beloved Breaking Dawn Breaking Dawn Everything, Everything Everything, Everything I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Invisible Man Invisible Man Monday's Not Coming Monday's Not Coming Nineteen Minutes Nineteen Minutes Ordinary Hazards Ordinary Hazards Out of Darkness Out of Darkness SHOUT SHOUT Sold Sold Speak Speak 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 The Perks of Being a Wallflower The Perks of Being a Wallflower The Poet X The Poet X Thirteen Reasons Why Thirteen Reasons Why Tricks Tricks Twilight Twilight Where the Crawdads Sing Where the Crawdads Sing
Animal Farm a Fairy Story
Class Act
Friday Night Lights
Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction
Stardust
The Catcher in the Rye
The Sun Is Also a Star
This Day in June
Too Bright to See

About Pocahontas Area Community School District

Pocahontas Area Community School District serves the city of Pocahontas and surrounding communities in Pocahontas County, in northwest Iowa. As with other public school systems in the state, the district's libraries and classroom collections operate under Iowa's statewide requirements for age-appropriate materials, and its book challenge and removal activity reflects both local review processes and the broader legal environment now governing Iowa schools.

Books in Schools

This page tracks 33 distinct titles that have been challenged or removed from Pocahontas Area Community School District's libraries and classrooms. That figure is in line with, and in some cases below, the counts reported by many other Iowa districts in this tracker, several of which have seen considerably higher totals as their collections have gone through similar review.

Much of this activity coincides with the passage of Iowa Senate File 496 in 2023, which imposed new restrictions on the kinds of materials that may be included in school library collections and required districts statewide to review their holdings for compliance. As in many smaller Iowa districts, the removals tracked here likely reflect proactive audits undertaken to align with the law alongside any direct challenges from parents or community members. No verified news coverage of Pocahontas Area's specific removals is available at this time; this page will be updated as reporting becomes available.