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Spartanburg County School District One

50 titles banned · South Carolina

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 After After All the Things We Do in the Dark All the Things We Do in the Dark Allegedly Allegedly Burned Burned Crank Crank Damsel Damsel Eleanor & Park Eleanor & Park Empire of Storms Empire of Storms Forever . . . Forever . . . Grown Grown I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Identical Identical Impulse Impulse Kingdom of Ash Kingdom of Ash l8r, g8r l8r, g8r Living Dead Girl Living Dead Girl Looking for Alaska Looking for Alaska Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Monday's Not Coming Monday's Not Coming Nineteen Minutes Nineteen Minutes Out of Darkness Out of Darkness People Kill People People Kill People Perfect Perfect Slaughterhouse-Five Slaughterhouse-Five Sold Sold Speak Speak The 57 Bus The 57 Bus The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian The Bluest Eye The Bluest Eye The Carnival at Bray The Carnival at Bray The Handmaid's Tale The Handmaid's Tale The Hate U Give The Hate U Give The Kite Runner The Kite Runner The Lovely Bones The Lovely Bones The Perks of Being a Wallflower The Perks of Being a Wallflower The Truth About Alice The Truth About Alice Thirteen Reasons Why Thirteen Reasons Why This One Summer This One Summer Tower of Dawn Tower of Dawn Tricks Tricks Water for Elephants Water for Elephants
Julián Is a Mermaid
Ramona Blue

About Spartanburg County School District One

Spartanburg County School District One serves students in the northern part of Spartanburg County, in South Carolina's Upstate region, an area that includes communities such as Campobello and Landrum. Like other public school systems in the state, the district maintains school libraries and classroom collections that are subject to South Carolina's policies governing the review and removal of instructional and library materials.

Books in Schools

This tracker currently lists 50 distinct titles that have been banned or challenged within Spartanburg County School District One. That total places the district among the more active sites of book-removal activity in South Carolina, though it remains well below the totals recorded in the state's largest districts, where challenge counts have run into the hundreds.

Much of the recent activity in South Carolina districts, including this one, has coincided with the state's move toward a more centralized review process for school library materials, adopted by the State Board of Education in 2024. That regulation established statewide standards for evaluating challenged books and gave the state board authority to order a title's removal from schools across South Carolina, a shift that has shaped how individual districts, including this one, handle challenges to the titles listed here.

No verified news coverage specific to Spartanburg County School District One's book removals is available at this time. Readers looking for the individual titles affected can find them listed elsewhere on this page.