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Winterset Community School District

90 titles banned · Iowa

Banned Books

1984 1984 A Court of Frost and Starlight A Court of Frost and Starlight A Court of Mist and Fury A Court of Mist and Fury A Court of Silver Flames A Court of Silver Flames 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 Scatter of Light A Scatter of Light A Thousand Splendid Suns A Thousand Splendid Suns All the Bright Places All the Bright Places Beloved Beloved Bitterblue Bitterblue Blood Water Paint Blood Water Paint Brave New World Brave New World Crank Crank Damsel Damsel Dark Triumph Dark Triumph Dreaming in Cuban Dreaming in Cuban Empire of Storms Empire of Storms Everything, Everything Everything, Everything Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Gabi, a Girl in Pieces Gabi, a Girl in Pieces 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 Identical Identical Invisible Man Invisible Man It It Last Night at the Telegraph Club Last Night at the Telegraph Club Lawn Boy Lawn Boy Life Is Funny Life Is Funny Like a Love Story Like a Love Story Lily and Dunkin Lily and Dunkin Living Dead Girl Living Dead Girl Looking for Alaska Looking for Alaska Melissa (formerly published as GEORGE) Melissa (formerly published as GEORGE) Nineteen Minutes Nineteen Minutes Ordinary Hazards Ordinary Hazards Out of Darkness Out of Darkness People Kill People People Kill People Perfect Perfect Point Of Retreat Point Of Retreat Regretting You Regretting You SHOUT SHOUT Slaughterhouse-Five Slaughterhouse-Five 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

About Winterset Community School District

Winterset Community School District is a public school system serving Madison County in south-central Iowa, southwest of the Des Moines metropolitan area. Like other Iowa districts, Winterset operates under statewide curriculum and library standards set by the state legislature and the Iowa Department of Education, which shape what materials schools may retain in classrooms and library collections.

Books in Schools

This tracker currently lists 90 distinct titles that have been banned or challenged in Winterset Community School District. That figure places Winterset among the more heavily affected districts tracked in Iowa, though the exact ranking shifts as more districts report activity. Much of this activity follows Iowa Senate File 496, a 2023 law that restricts materials depicting sex acts in school libraries and classrooms and requires districts to review collections for compliance, prompting many Iowa schools to remove or reassess titles. Coverage of how this review process has played out specifically in Winterset has not yet been independently verified; this page will be updated as reporting becomes available.