The Banned Books Hoax

Let me make it absolutely clear: There are NO BOOKS BANNED in the United States. Not a single one. - Kip Hansen

Now, I mean this quite literally.
And I urge you to do your own research on this: I would be pleased if readers could find a single book that is on any list anywhere as forbidden to be sold, imported, or read in the United States. [see end note [i]]
So, you may well ask, “How can Banned Books be an ongoing social controversy if there are no banned books?”
The long and short of it is:

1. Some people think that some books are not appropriate for school children of various ages.
2. Other people, specifically the American Library Association, the trade group of librarians in the United States, and PEN America, a writers advocacy organization, hold the position that ALL books should be made available to all people in all libraries and if there are to be any exceptions, only librarians or the books’ authors are qualified to make those decisions.

Now, let’s get real...
The real story is that the American Library Association (ALA) label any challenge, any questioning of librarian’s choices about which books to include in which sections of any library: Book Banning.