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Maine

82 distinct titles banned across 2 districts

Districts

Hermon School Department 77 titles Maine School Administrative District #6 6 titles

Banned Books

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 Stolen Life A Stolen Life A Year Without a Name A Year Without a Name Bastard Out of Carolina Bastard Out of Carolina Boy Toy Boy Toy Breathless Breathless Choke Choke Crank Crank Crown of Midnight Crown of Midnight Damsel Damsel Empire of Storms Empire of Storms Fallout Fallout Forever . . . Forever . . . Glass Glass Heir of Fire Heir of Fire Helter skelter : the true story of the Manson murders Helter skelter : the true story of the Manson murders House of Earth and Blood House of Earth and Blood It Ends with Us It Ends with Us Juliet Takes a Breath Juliet Takes a Breath Kingdom of Ash Kingdom of Ash Lucky Lucky Maybe Now Maybe Now Maybe someday Maybe someday Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Milk and Honey Milk and Honey People Kill People People Kill People Perfect Perfect Rumble Rumble Slaughterhouse-Five Slaughterhouse-Five Sold Sold The Art of Racing in the Rain The Art of Racing in the Rain The Assassin's Blade The Assassin's Blade The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo The Kite Runner The Kite Runner The You I've Never Known The You I've Never Known Throne of Glass Throne of Glass Tilt Tilt Tower of Dawn Tower of Dawn Traffick Traffick Tricks Tricks
All-American Murder: The Rise and Fall of Aaron Hernandez, the Superstar Whose Life Ended on Murderers' Row
Breakfast of Champions
Cat's Cradle
Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, A Life Reclaimed: A Memoir

Book Bans in Maine

Tracking for Maine currently shows 82 distinct titles that have been banned or challenged across the state, spread across just 2 school districts. The activity is heavily concentrated: Hermon School Department accounts for 77 of the 82 titles, while Maine School Administrative District #6 has recorded 6. In other words, nearly all of the state's tracked book removals originate from a single district, with the rest of Maine's roughly 200 public school administrative units showing no recorded activity in this dataset.

This concentration pattern is worth noting on its own terms. Rather than a broad, statewide wave touching many communities, Maine's numbers reflect a localized episode centered on one district. That makes Maine an outlier compared to states where challenges are distributed across dozens of districts — here, the statewide count is really a reflection of what has happened in one place, plus a much smaller, secondary cluster in SAD #6.

Context

Maine is a small state by both population and number of school districts, so a single district generating dozens of challenges can dominate the statewide total in a way it might not in a larger state with hundreds of districts. Because the tracked data is so heavily weighted toward one district, it likely reflects a local review process, complaint, or policy decision specific to that district's schools rather than a coordinated statewide effort. The much smaller number of titles in SAD #6 suggests a separate, more limited local action rather than part of the same process.

No specific state legislation, board policy, or statute is cited here, since reliable, verified details about the legislative or administrative drivers behind these particular challenges are not available. Readers interested in the underlying cause of the Hermon-specific activity should consult local school board records or news coverage for that district directly, as the scale and concentration of the data point to a district-level decision rather than a change in state law.