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Maryland

68 distinct titles banned across 3 districts

Districts

Caroll County School District 65 titles Frederick County Public Schools 4 titles Montgomery County Public Schools 1 title

Banned Books

A Clash of Kings A Clash of Kings 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 All Boys Aren't Blue All Boys Aren't Blue All the Things We Do in the Dark All the Things We Do in the Dark Blankets Blankets Breathless Breathless Crank Crank Damsel Damsel Doing It!: Let's Talk About Sex Doing It!: Let's Talk About Sex Empire of Storms Empire of Storms Forever . . . Forever . . . Forever for a Year Forever for a Year Half of a Yellow Sun Half of a Yellow Sun Homegoing Homegoing House of Earth and Blood House of Earth and Blood House of Sky and Breath House of Sky and Breath Identical Identical It Ends with Us It Ends with Us Juliet Takes a Breath Juliet Takes a Breath Kingdom of Ash Kingdom of Ash Last Night at the Telegraph Club Last Night at the Telegraph Club Lighter than my shadow Lighter than my shadow Like a Love Story Like a Love Story Looking for Alaska Looking for Alaska Lucky Lucky Man o' War Man o' War Milk and Honey Milk and Honey Nineteen Minutes Nineteen Minutes Oryx and Crake Oryx and Crake People Kill People People Kill People Perfect Perfect Red Hood Red Hood Shine Shine Slaughterhouse-Five Slaughterhouse-Five Sold Sold The Bluest Eye The Bluest Eye The Carnival at Bray The Carnival at Bray The DUFF The DUFF The Freedom Writers Diary The Freedom Writers Diary The Handmaid's Tale The Handmaid's Tale The Haters The Haters The Kite Runner The Kite Runner The Perks of Being a Wallflower The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Book Bans in Maryland

Maryland schools are tracked as having 68 distinct banned or challenged titles across 3 school districts. That is a modest total compared to states where book challenges have become widespread across dozens of districts, and the Maryland data shows the activity is not evenly distributed. The overwhelming majority of tracked titles, 65 of the 68, come from a single district, Caroll County School District. The remaining two districts, Frederick County Public Schools and Montgomery County Public Schools, account for only a handful of titles between them. In other words, Maryland's statewide count is less a reflection of broad-based challenges and more a picture of one district's activity dominating the state's numbers.

Context

With only 3 of Maryland's school districts appearing in this tracker at all, the pattern here looks like isolated, district-level activity rather than a coordinated statewide push. This is a common shape for the data in states without sweeping legislation mandating or restricting book removals: a small number of local school boards or administrators handle challenges individually, and the volume tends to reflect decisions made district by district rather than a shared policy driving removals across the state. Maryland's total is heavily weighted by whatever review process and challenge volume occurred in Caroll County specifically, so any changes in that one district's counts would have an outsized effect on the state's overall standing. No specific state law or legislative mandate is confirmed as a driver of these numbers; readers interested in the policy backdrop should consult primary sources on Maryland's current school library and curriculum review procedures rather than infer a legislative cause from the count alone.