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Southeast Polk Community School District

35 titles banned · Iowa

Banned Books

A Clash of Kings A Clash of Kings A Court of Mist and Fury A Court of Mist and Fury A Court of Thorns and Roses A Court of Thorns and Roses A Game of Thrones A Game of Thrones All Boys Aren't Blue All Boys Aren't Blue Beloved Beloved Breathless Breathless Crank Crank Damsel Damsel Empire of Storms Empire of Storms Identical Identical Last Night at the Telegraph Club Last Night at the Telegraph Club Looking for Alaska Looking for Alaska Lucky Lucky Nineteen Minutes Nineteen Minutes Ordinary Hazards Ordinary Hazards Out of Darkness Out of Darkness Perfect Perfect Red Hood Red Hood Sold Sold The Bluest Eye The Bluest Eye The Carnival at Bray The Carnival at Bray The Color Purple The Color Purple The Glass Castle The Glass Castle The Handmaid's Tale The Handmaid's Tale The Infinite Moment of Us The Infinite Moment of Us The Kite Runner The Kite Runner The Perks of Being a Wallflower The Perks of Being a Wallflower Thirteen Reasons Why Thirteen Reasons Why Tilt Tilt Tricks Tricks We Are the Ants We Are the Ants
Furyborn
Snow Falling on Cedars
Sula

About Southeast Polk Community School District

Southeast Polk Community School District serves communities on the southeastern edge of the Des Moines metropolitan area in Polk County, Iowa. Like other Iowa districts, it operates public schools subject to state curriculum and library-material laws, including recent statewide legislation affecting which books may be shelved in school libraries.

Books in Schools

This page tracks 35 distinct titles that have been reported as banned or challenged in Southeast Polk Community School District. That figure places the district in the middle range of tracked Iowa districts, several of which have reported far higher or lower counts depending on local review processes and the pace of compliance efforts.

Much of the removal activity in Iowa school libraries traces back to Senate File 496, a 2023 state law that restricts library materials depicting sex acts and requires books in school libraries to be "age appropriate." Districts across the state, including Southeast Polk, have used the law's standards to guide reviews of existing library collections, and titles flagged under those reviews make up a substantial share of the entries tracked here.

No verified news coverage of specific challenges in this district is available at this time. This page will be updated as reporting becomes available.