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Old 07-19-2023, 10:02 AM
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Prohibiting Penthouse magazine in the grade school library is not banning books. You can still go and buy it, if you are an adult, at any magazine store. Anyone saying books are banned in FL is not being honest.
After more than 200 books were banned in various school districts across Florida between the summer of 2021 and 2022, districts continued the crackdown, banning 357 books between July and December 2022, according to the nonprofit organization PEN America. The organization reports that Florida had the second-highest number of book-banning incidents in the nation during that period, trailing only Texas.

Here is the list..
Miami Bookstore Owners React to Florida's Whopping Number of Banned Books | Miami New Times
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