Marietta School Board to Consider Banning 23 More Books Tuesday | Education

Marietta Schools Superintendent Grant Rivera is recommending the Board of Education remove 23 books containing “sexually explicit content” from the Marietta High School library.

The school board is scheduled to consider the book bans at its meeting Tuesday evening.

The list is the result of a four-step process that followed the board’s Sept. 12 directive to Rivera to remove “sexually explicit material” from the school district, Rivera told the MDJ Monday.

Board members will also consider Marietta parent Jenny Storino’s appeal to get reinstated a book which was banned by Rivera prior to the board issuing its directive — “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” by Jesse Andrews.

Here are the 23 books on Rivera’s list:

♦ “Monday’s Not Coming” by Tiffany Jackson

♦ “Beyond Magenta” by Susan Kuklin

♦ “More Happy than Not” by Ada Silvera

♦ “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chobsky

♦ “Crank” by Ellen Hopkins

♦ “The Infinite Moment of Us” by Lauren Myracle

♦ “13 Reasons Why” by John Asher

♦ “City of Thieves” by David Benioff

♦ “Juliet Takes a Breath” by Gabby Rivera

♦ “A Court of Mist and Fury” by Sarah J. Maas

♦ “A Court of Thorn and Roses” by Sarah J. Maas

♦ “A Court of Wings and Ruin” by Sarah J. Maas

♦ “A Court of Frost and Starlight” by Sarah J. Maas

♦ “Lucky” by Alice Sebold

♦ “Tricks” by Ellen Hopkins

♦ “Blankets” by Craig Thompson

♦ “All Boys Aren’t Blue” by George M. Johnson

♦ “This Book is Gay” by Juno Dawson

♦ “I Love You, Beth Cooper” by Larry Doyle

♦ “It Ends with Us” by Colleen Hoover

♦ “Identical” by Ellen Hopkins

♦ “Grasshopper Jungle: A History” by Andrew Smith

♦ “The Casual Vacancy” by J.K. Rowling

Five of the 23 books were included in the American Library Association’s “Top…