The Escambia County School Board will attempt to dismiss the lawsuit by PenAmerica, Penguin Random House, authors, and local parents regarding the board taking more than 1,600 books out of our schools. The hearing is at 10 a.m. in federal court.
PenAmerica points out that the book list includes eight different encyclopedias, The Guinness Book of World Records, and Ripley’s Believe it or Not, also The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, and Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile.
The Princess Diaries and 14 other books by Meg Cabot have been taken from libraries, alongside books by David Baldacci, Lee Child, Michael Crichton, Carl Hiassen, Jonathan Franzen, John Green, John Grisham, Stephen King (23 of them), Dean Koontz, Cormac McCarthy, Celeste Ng, James Patterson, Jodi Picoult, and Nicholas Sparks.
Nobel Prize winners Ernst Hemingway, William Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald have books removed.
Such classics as Lord of the Flies, Babbitt, Slaughterhouse-Five, Doctor Zhivago, Flowers for Algernon, On the Road, Schindler’s List, Brave New World, Les Misérables, A Tale of Two Cities, and David Copperfield are off the shelves.
