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The collection of creative and scholarly works traces Selena Quintanilla-Perez's lasting impact.

The board will have multiple opportunities to revise the list before a final vote in June. Before recent changes, the proposal's length, lack of diversity and Christian focus received criticism.

Oklahoma Republican lawmakers in the Senate advanced a measure to ban books containing sexually explicit material from public school library shelves on Wednesday, but as some Democrats have pointed out, it's not clear what that means.

Bookmarked, based in North Texas, advertises itself as "antivirus for libraries."

The list includes Julia Ioffe, a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award; R.L Stine, author of the popular series Goosebumps; and best-selling author Peter Swanson.

A Waco judge this week made permanent a block on a state law that required book vendors to rate materials based on their sexual content and references.

Since 2020, many new bookstores have opened across the state.

House Bill 900 requires book vendors to rate all their materials based on their depictions or references to sex before selling them to schools. Vendors say the law aims to regulate protected speech with “vague and over broad” terms.

Texas school districts banned 801 books last year — more than any other state in the U.S. Now, efforts to ban books are taking center stage during the 88th Texas legislative session.

The small town east of Manhattan had considered not renewing the library's lease because it refused to accept a clause asking for the removal of all LGBTQ and socially "divisive" books from shelves.