WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI - The Ypsilanti District Library has compiled a list of the most popular items requested in 2024, including fiction, nonfiction, young adult series, children’s books and movies.

In 2023-2024, bans grew 20 times over the 2020 baseline. That’s a lot of missing books and a lot of students denied the ...

The Hate U Give (THUG) is the story of sixteen-year-old ... inaugural Walter Dean Myers Grant awarded by the We Need Diverse Books campaign.

The Hate U Give was among the American Library Association's top 10 most challenged books in 2020. In recent years, St. Tammany has been mired in political and legal turmoil over minors' access ...

The cover art illustrator for The Hate U Give has said she "wasn't exactly thrilled ... has a lighter complexion than the character in the book. Getty Images Amandla Stenberg is famously known ...