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Lehighton Area School District

33 titles banned · Pennsylvania

Banned Books

101 Questions about Sex and Sexuality...With Answers for the Curious, Cautious, and Confused 101 Questions about Sex and Sexuality...With Answers for the Curious, Cautious, and Confused Beyond Magenta Beyond Magenta Black Lives Matter Black Lives Matter Coming out as transgender Coming out as transgender Crank Crank How is Online Pornography Affecting Society? How is Online Pornography Affecting Society? Interracial Relationships Interracial Relationships Is It Still Cheating If I Don't Get Caught? Is It Still Cheating If I Don't Get Caught? My book of life by angel My book of life by angel The Haters The Haters
Annie's Baby: The Diary of Anonymous, a Pregnant Teenager
Frequently Asked Questions About Dating
Gay America: Struggle for Equality
Gay Power! The Stonewall Riots and the Gay Rights Movememnt, 1969
Gone Girl
Homosexuality
How Can Teen Pregnancy be Reduced?
Human Trafficking
Is It A Choice? Answers to the Most Frequently Asked Questions About Gay and Lesbian People
Lgbtq Families The Ultimate Teen Guide
Mixed Messages : Interpreting Body Image and Social Norms
Odd one out
Queer, There and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World
Sexting
Should Teens Have Access to Birth Control?
Side by Side: On Having a Gay or Lesbian Sibling
Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights
Teen Sex
Teenage Sex and Pregnancy
The Stonewall Riots: The Fight for LGBT Rights
Transgender Rights and Issues
What If Someone I Know is Gay? Answers to Questions About What It Means to be Gay and Lesbian?
White Privilege

About Lehighton Area School District

Lehighton Area School District serves the borough of Lehighton and surrounding communities in Carbon County, in eastern Pennsylvania. As with many public school systems, the district maintains its own libraries and curricular materials across its elementary, middle, and high school campuses, decisions about which have drawn increased public attention nationwide in recent years.

Books in Schools

This page tracks 33 distinct titles that have been reported as banned or challenged in connection with Lehighton Area School District. That places the district in the middle tier of activity compared with other Pennsylvania districts tracked on this site, some of which have seen challenges to only a handful of titles while others have logged well over a hundred. Pennsylvania has not enacted the kind of statewide book-removal law seen in some other states, so challenges here have generally proceeded through local school board policy and individual district review processes rather than state mandate. No verified news coverage of specific challenges in this district is available at this time; this page will be updated as reporting becomes available.