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Missouri

58 distinct titles banned across 2 districts

Districts

Cameron R-1 School District 57 titles St. Joseph School District 2 titles

Banned Books

A Child Called "It" A Child Called "It" A Court of Thorns and Roses A Court of Thorns and Roses 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 Ask the Passengers Ask the Passengers Crank Crank Crown of Midnight Crown of Midnight Eleanor & Park Eleanor & Park Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Fade Fade Felix Ever After Felix Ever After Glass Glass Go Ask Alice Go Ask Alice Grown Grown Heir of Fire Heir of Fire Heroine Heroine How Beautiful the Ordinary How Beautiful the Ordinary How It All Blew Up How It All Blew Up I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Identical Identical Juliet Takes a Breath Juliet Takes a Breath l8r, g8r l8r, g8r Looking for Alaska Looking for Alaska Lucky Lucky Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Nineteen Minutes Nineteen Minutes Out of Darkness Out of Darkness Queen of Shadows Queen of Shadows Shine Shine Slaughterhouse-Five Slaughterhouse-Five Sold Sold Speak: The Graphic Novel Speak: The Graphic Novel The Assassin's Blade The Assassin's Blade The Bluest Eye The Bluest Eye The Carnival at Bray The Carnival at Bray The Color Purple The Color Purple The DUFF The DUFF The Female of the Species The Female of the Species The Handmaid's Tale The Handmaid's Tale The Hate U Give The Hate U Give The Kite Runner The Kite Runner The You I've Never Known The You I've Never Known Thirteen Reasons Why Thirteen Reasons Why Throne of Glass Throne of Glass Tilt Tilt Tricks Tricks Wicked Wicked
Catwoman: Soulstealer

Book Bans in Missouri

Tracking for Missouri currently identifies 58 distinct book titles that have been banned or challenged across 2 school districts in the state. Compared to states where challenge activity is spread across dozens of districts, Missouri's recorded activity is unusually concentrated: nearly all of it is attributable to a single district, Cameron R-1 School District, which accounts for 57 of the 58 titles tracked. St. Joseph School District, the only other district with recorded activity, has 2 titles on its list. Because Cameron R-1's count is nearly identical to the statewide total, the overlap between the two districts' lists is minimal, meaning most of the titles restricted in Cameron R-1 do not appear on St. Joseph's much shorter list.

Context

The pattern in this dataset points to a localized rather than statewide phenomenon. Rather than reflecting broad, coordinated action across Missouri's school systems, the data suggests that a single district's review process has driven nearly all of the recorded challenges, while the rest of the state's roughly 500 public school districts have no titles logged at all. This kind of concentration is common in book-challenge tracking generally: a small number of districts, often prompted by an individual complainant, a school board policy change, or a formal review committee, can generate a large volume of challenged titles in a short period, while neighboring districts see little to no comparable activity.

Because only two districts appear in the current tracking for Missouri, it is difficult to say whether this reflects the full scope of challenge activity in the state or simply the districts for which challenge records have been made public and compiled so far. Statewide legislative or policy drivers may exist, but no specific law or bill is confirmed here, so this page describes only the pattern visible in the tracked data rather than its underlying cause.