Group demanding HCS book removal calling for audit of school libraries
HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WPDE) — A group is demanding an audit of every Horry County School library, over concerns of controversial books.
Moms for Liberty of Horry County says more than 70 books in school libraries contain inappropriate material, including pornography and incest.
Group chair David Warner says children should only be able to read or view such content with parental consent, which isn't possible inside of a school library.
"I think the biggest thing is it should be a decision that a parent makes," Warner said. "A parent is the one that is able to decide whether a child should be exposed to such things."
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Opponents of the ban claim the group is trying to limit books with LGBTQ+ characters or storylines.
Warner says it's strictly about taking explicit content out of schools.
"This had nothing to do with any kind of particular group," he said. "If these books are vulgar, and they have vulgar content, then they should not be in there regardless of whether they're straight, gay, or any other group."
Below is a list of the books Moms for Liberty of Horry County wants pulled.
- A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee
- All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
- All the Things We Do in the Dark by Saundra Mitchell
- Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher
- And They Lived by Stephen Salvatore
- Ask the Passengers by A.S. King
- Beautiful by Amy Reed
- Boy Girl Boy by Ron Koertge
- Burned by Ellen Hopkins
- Breathless by Jennifer Niven
- Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare
- Cool for the Summer by Dahlia Adler
- Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
- Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
- Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
- Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
- Crank by Ellen Hopkins
- Damsel by Elana Arnold
- Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
- Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Fade by Lisa McMann
- Fallout by Ellen Hopkins
- Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
- Flamer by Mike Curato
- Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero
- Glass by Ellen Hopkins
- Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
- Grit by Gillian French
- grl2grl by Julie Anne Peters
- Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson
- I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez
- Identical by Ellen Hopkins
- I'll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson
- Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
- Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas
- Last night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
- Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
- Looking for Alaska by John Green
- Lucky by Alice Sebold
- Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
- Monday's not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
- More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
- Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoul
- Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
- Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez
- Perfect by Ellen Hopkins
- Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy
- Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
- Rumble by Ellen Hopkins
- Scars by Cheryl Rainfield
- Shine by Lauren Myracle
- Smoke by Ellen Hopkins
- Sold by Patricia McCormick
- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
- The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis
- The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
- The Freedom Writers Diary by The Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Haters by Jesse Andrews
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
- The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu
- The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli
- The You I've Never Known by Ellen Hopkins
- Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
- This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki
- Tilt by Ellen Hopkins
- Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas
- Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
- Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen
- Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Yolk by Mary H. K. Choi
