This week the Kuna School District sent out an email to the principals of its secondary schools addressing a list of books that Idaho state legislators had flagged as needing to be removed from library shelves.
By Wednesday, KSD officials started placing the listed books under restricted access and removing them from classroom libraries.
The Idaho Press reports, the district received the list from the Idaho Association of School Administrators.
The books on the list are now under “behind the shelf” protocol. In the Kuna School District, “behind the shelf” books are books that require parent permission before a student checks them out.
Many of the books listed contain LGBTQ themes or content. Here is the full list of books.
• A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
• All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
• Asking for It by Louise O’Neill
• Beyond Magenta by Susan Kuklin
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• Boyfriends With Girlfriends by Alex Sanchez
• Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia
• Easy by Tammara Webber
• Exit Here by Jason Myers
• Forever by Judy Blume
• Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
• Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
• Identical by Ellen Hopkins
• It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Looking for Alaska by John Green
• Obsidian Series by Jennifer L. Armentrout
• Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
• Sex is a Funny Word by Cory Silverberg
• Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Sula by Toni Morrison
• This Book is Gay by James Dawson
• Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Vast Fields if Ordinary by Nick Burd
