Lapeer Community Schools to review 83 books removed from school media centers

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(Michigan Advance) Community members pushing back against potential restrictions on reading materials at the Lapeer District Library say they’re now facing similar concerns within the local school district, after administrators removed 83 books from Lapeer High School and Zemmer Middle School.

Members of Fight 4 the First Lapeer said they confirmed with Lapeer Community Schools Superintendent Matt Wandrie that the books had been removed, noting that the list of books removed matched a list of titles identified by the organization Take Back the Classroom.

The group argues that “pornographic books have infiltrated classrooms and libraries for the purpose of grooming our children under the guise of education” and shares resources on how to have books removed from public school libraries.

While efforts to have books removed from school shelves often cite sexual content, PEN America, a nonprofit focused on human rights and free expression in literature, notes that book bans have overwhelmingly targeted books written by people of color or containing LGBTQ+ characters or themes, with justifications using rhetoric that stigmatizes LGBTQ+ people by painting them as inherently sexual or pornographic. .....................(more)

https://michiganadvance.com/2026/02/10/lapeer-community-schools-to-review-83-books-removed-from-school-media-centers/

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1. See The Librarians

A documentary on PBS

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2. See also this from PEN America

https://pen.org/report/americas-censored-campuses-25-web-of-control/