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Banned Books

10th Anniversary 10th Anniversary 1984 1984 2 Days 2 Days A Bend in the Road A Bend in the Road A Northern Light A Northern Light Across the Universe Across the Universe All the Bright Places All the Bright Places An Abundance of Katherines An Abundance of Katherines Beautiful Disaster Beautiful Disaster Brave Face Brave Face Brave New World Brave New World Carrie Carrie Chosen Chosen Devious Devious Distant shores Distant shores Don't You Forget About Me Don't You Forget About Me Dracula in Love Dracula in Love Eleven on Top Eleven on Top Everlasting Everlasting Evermore Evermore Every breath Every breath Forever . . . Forever . . . Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock Girl with a Pearl Earring Girl with a Pearl Earring Go Ask Alice Go Ask Alice Gossip Girl Gossip Girl Harvesting the Heart Harvesting the Heart House Rules House Rules Hunted Hunted 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 I Will Always Love You I Will Always Love You It It Just One Year Just One Year Lean Mean Thirteen Lean Mean Thirteen Lisa, Bright and Dark Lisa, Bright and Dark Looking for Alaska Looking for Alaska Love the One You're With Love the One You're With Lucky Lucky Marked Marked Mercy Mercy Message in a bottle Message in a bottle Metro Girl Metro Girl My Sister's Keeper My Sister's Keeper Nineteen Minutes Nineteen Minutes Notorious Notorious Ordinary Hazards Ordinary Hazards Paper Towns Paper Towns

About West Burlington Independent School District

West Burlington Independent School District is a public school district serving the West Burlington community in southeast Iowa, within Des Moines County. Like other Iowa districts, it operates under statewide curriculum and library-materials requirements set by the state legislature and the Iowa Department of Education.

Books in Schools

This page tracks 141 distinct titles that have been reported as banned or challenged in West Burlington Independent School District. That figure places the district on the higher end relative to many other Iowa districts of similar size, where reported counts are often much smaller or nonexistent.

Much of the recent activity in Iowa school libraries follows from Senate File 496, a 2023 state law that restricts library materials depicting sex acts and requires school libraries to maintain "age-appropriate" collections, prompting many districts, including this one, to review and remove titles from circulation. No verified news coverage specific to West Burlington's book removal process is available at this time; this page will be updated as reporting becomes available.