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366 distinct titles banned across 6 districts

Districts

Elkhorn Area School District 339 titles Germantown Schools 1 title Howard-Suamic School District 32 titles Kenosha Unified School District 4 titles Menomonee Falls Schools 33 titles Platteville School District 1 title

Banned Books

101 Ways to Dance 101 Ways to Dance 33 Snowfish 33 Snowfish 99 Days 99 Days A Child Called "It" A Child Called "It" 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 Curse So Dark and Lonely A Curse So Dark and Lonely A Day No Pigs Would Die A Day No Pigs Would Die A Girl Named Zippy A Girl Named Zippy A Great and Terrible Beauty A Great and Terrible Beauty A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns A Semi-definitive List of Worst Nightmares A Semi-definitive List of Worst Nightmares Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter After After All Boys Aren't Blue All Boys Aren't Blue All the Birds in the Sky All the Birds in the Sky All the Bright Places All the Bright Places All the Light We Cannot See All the Light We Cannot See Allegedly Allegedly Almost Perfect Almost Perfect Alt Ed Alt Ed An Abundance of Katherines An Abundance of Katherines Anna and the Swallow Man Anna and the Swallow Man Ask the Passengers Ask the Passengers Beetle and the Hollowbones Beetle and the Hollowbones Before I Fall Before I Fall Beloved Beloved Beyond Magenta Beyond Magenta Blankets Blankets Boy Toy Boy Toy Brave New World Brave New World Breathless Breathless Burned Burned Choke Choke Clockwork Princess Clockwork Princess Code Name Verity Code Name Verity Cold Sassy Tree Cold Sassy Tree Concrete Rose Concrete Rose Crank Crank Crown of Midnight Crown of Midnight Cut Cut Damsel Damsel Dark Triumph Dark Triumph Daughter of the forest Daughter of the forest

Book Bans in Wisconsin

Across Wisconsin, 366 distinct titles have been banned or challenged in school districts tracked by this project, spread across just 6 districts statewide. That distribution is far from even. Elkhorn Area School District accounts for the overwhelming majority of the state's activity, with 339 titles removed or restricted — roughly 93% of every banned title recorded in Wisconsin. No other district comes close: Menomonee Falls Schools and Howard-Suamic School District each show activity in the low thirties (33 and 32 titles, respectively), while Kenosha Unified School District, Germantown Schools, and Platteville School District round out the list with a handful of titles apiece, down to a single title in the smallest cases.

In practical terms, this means Wisconsin's statewide count is driven almost entirely by decisions made in one district rather than reflecting a broad, coordinated push across the state's many school systems. A reader looking at the 366-title total should understand it less as a measure of how many Wisconsin districts are removing books and more as a reflection of one large-scale review process in Elkhorn, layered on top of smaller, more typical activity elsewhere.

Context

Wisconsin has hundreds of public school districts, so a tally of only 6 with any recorded bans is a small fraction of the state's total district count — activity here is narrow rather than widespread. The scale and concentration in Elkhorn suggests a systematic review of library or classroom holdings there, distinct from the more incremental, title-by-title challenges typical of the other five districts, where totals stay in the single digits to low thirties.

No specific state legislation, board policy, or administrative rule tied to these figures is confirmed here, so none is cited. Readers interested in the underlying cause of the Elkhorn numbers in particular should consult local district records or news coverage, since a gap this large between one district and the rest of the state is usually the product of a specific local policy decision or review rather than a statewide trend.