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Roane County Community School District

49 titles banned · Tennessee

Banned Books

A Curse of Roses A Curse of Roses Ace of Spades Ace of Spades All the Rage All the Rage And We Stay And We Stay At the Edge of the Universe At the Edge of the Universe Birthday Birthday Brave Face Brave Face Even When Your Voice Shakes Even When Your Voice Shakes Feral Youth Feral Youth Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit Guyaholic Guyaholic Half of a Yellow Sun Half of a Yellow Sun I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings I'll Give You the Sun I'll Give You the Sun Lucky Lucky Parable of the Sower Parable of the Sower Parable of the Talents Parable of the Talents The Bluest Eye The Bluest Eye The First to Die at the End The First to Die at the End The Upside of Unrequited The Upside of Unrequited Tower of Dawn Tower of Dawn Vampire Academy Vampire Academy
Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World
Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard
City of Heavenly Fire
Cold
Darius the Great Deserves Better
Déogratias, a tale of Rwanda
Forget Me Not
Here’s to Us
Into the Light
Learning to Breathe
Off the Record
She Gets the Girl
Stay Gold
The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza
The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
The Fever King
The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali
The Music of What Happens
The Porcupine of Truth
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
The Testaments
This is Where the World Ends
What If It's Us
What My Mother Doesn't Know

About Roane County Community School District

Roane County Community School District serves students in Roane County, Tennessee, a region in the eastern part of the state near Knoxville. Like other public school systems in Tennessee, the district operates under state curriculum and library standards while making local decisions about the books available to students in its classrooms and school libraries.

Books in Schools

This tracker currently lists 49 distinct titles that have been banned or challenged in Roane County Community School District, a level of activity that places it among the more active Tennessee districts tracked here, though below the highest-volume systems in the state. Much of the recent scrutiny of school library materials in Tennessee follows from Senate Bill 2407, the Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022, which directed districts to review library collections for content deemed inappropriate for a school setting and established new procedures for challenging and removing titles. As with many districts, local review committees and school boards in Roane County have applied this framework in determining which books remain available to students. No independent news coverage of this district's specific removals is currently available; this page will be updated as verified reporting emerges.