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Western Dubuque Community School District

40 titles banned · Iowa

Banned Books

A Court of Frost and Starlight A Court of Frost and Starlight A Court of Thorns and Roses A Court of Thorns and Roses A Court of Wings and Ruin A Court of Wings and Ruin A Dance with Dragons A Dance with Dragons A Feast for Crows A Feast for Crows A Game of Thrones A Game of Thrones A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms A Storm of Swords A Storm of Swords After After After Ever Happy After Ever Happy After We Collided After We Collided Beloved Beloved Flamer Flamer 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'm the Girl I'm the Girl It Ends with Us It Ends with Us Looking for Alaska Looking for Alaska Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Milk and Honey Milk and Honey Nineteen Minutes Nineteen Minutes The Bluest Eye The Bluest Eye The Perks of Being a Wallflower The Perks of Being a Wallflower
After We Fell
Beautiful Disaster
Before
Blood and Honey
Blood of Elves
For the Wolf
Gods and Monsters
If You Leave
It Starts with Us
November 9
Reminders of Him
Serpent and Dove
Sword of Destiny
The Last Wish
Two Boys Kissing
Without Merit
You: A Novel of Dark Obsession

About Western Dubuque Community School District

Western Dubuque Community School District serves students across a largely rural stretch of northeastern Iowa, in and around Dubuque County. Like other public school systems in the state, the district is responsible for maintaining school library collections in line with Iowa's evolving statewide standards for instructional and library materials.

Books in Schools

This tracker currently lists 40 distinct titles that have been banned or challenged in Western Dubuque Community School District, placing it among the Iowa districts with a moderate volume of removals recorded here relative to other tracked districts in the state. As in many Iowa districts, the wave of reviews and removals coincided with the implementation of Iowa Senate File 496, a 2023 law that set new statewide requirements for school library materials and prompted widespread reassessment of collections across the state. No verified news coverage of the district's specific review process is available at this time.