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Sioux Center Community School District

40 titles banned · Iowa

Banned Books

A Bend in the Road A Bend in the Road A Heart in a Body in the World A Heart in a Body in the World Before I Die Before I Die Beloved Beloved Bitterblue Bitterblue Breathless Breathless Chasing Lucky Chasing Lucky Crush Crush Everything, Everything Everything, Everything I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Looking for Alaska Looking for Alaska Monument 14 Monument 14 Nineteen Minutes Nineteen Minutes Out of Darkness Out of Darkness Paper Towns Paper Towns The Fault in Our Stars The Fault in Our Stars The Kite Runner The Kite Runner Where the Crawdads Sing Where the Crawdads Sing
All This Time
American Dirt
Before the Devil Breaks You
Blink
Covet
Crave
Fire
Firekeeper's Daughter
Frankly in Love
Friday Night Lights
Girl in Pieces
Graceling
In Search of Us
Lair of Dreams
Monument 14: Savage Drift
Monument 14: Sky On Fire
Room
The Diviners
The King of Crows
What We Saw
Winterkeep
With the Fire on High

About Sioux Center Community School District

Sioux Center Community School District is a public school system serving the city of Sioux Center and surrounding areas of Sioux County in northwest Iowa. Like other public districts in the state, it is subject to Iowa's statewide requirements governing the selection and review of instructional materials and school library collections.

Books in Schools

This tracker currently lists 40 distinct titles associated with banning or challenge activity in Sioux Center Community School District. That places it among the more active districts tracked in Iowa, though the count remains smaller than the totals recorded in some of the state's larger metropolitan districts. Much of this activity coincides with the implementation of Iowa Senate File 496, enacted in 2023, which set new statewide standards for age-appropriate library materials and prompted districts across Iowa to review and, in many cases, remove books from circulation. No verified news coverage of Sioux Center's specific removals is available at this time.