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65 titles banned · Maryland

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 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 The Sun and Her Flowers The Sun and Her Flowers

About Carroll County Public Schools

Carroll County Public Schools serves students across Carroll County, Maryland, a largely rural and suburban region northwest of Baltimore. Like other public school systems in the state, the district maintains its own procedures for selecting instructional materials and library resources, as well as a process for reviewing formal complaints about specific titles.

Books in Schools

This page tracks 65 distinct titles that have been reported as banned or challenged within Carroll County Public Schools. That figure reflects the cumulative record of titles flagged for removal or restriction, whether the outcome was removal, retention, or restricted access, and does not necessarily represent the number of books currently unavailable to students. Compared to other Maryland districts tracked on this site, Carroll County's count places it among the more actively contested school systems in the state, though the scale varies considerably from year to year and depends heavily on how systematically challenges are documented and reported. No independent news coverage of specific challenges in this district has been verified for inclusion here; readers interested in the underlying complaints or school board decisions are encouraged to consult local reporting and district board meeting records directly. As with other districts on this site, the individual titles associated with Carroll County are listed separately above.