Ellen Hopkins
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Oct 16, 2026
Spider-DanHOST
All the authors, let them know what we thought about their work.
Spider-DanHOST
I think, uh, I think Ellen Hopkins of Crank, uh, commented on one of the posts, Tony, uh, Tony Holt Jr.
Tony FarinaPANELIST
Ooh.
Spider-DanHOST
So yeah, so I think it was on Facebook, I believe.
AnthonyHOST
The vote came during the board's meeting at the Fort Mill Public Library.
AnthonyHOST
The five titles moved are Nineteen Love Songs by David Levithan, The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff, People Kill People by Ellen Hopkins, and Sold by Patricia McCormick.
AnthonyHOST
Library staff reviewed the complaints under the board's collection development policy and recommended keeping four of the books where they were and moving only one of them.
AnthonyHOST
The board's policy and appeals committee rejected the recommendation, and the full board upheld the committee in the removal of all titles.
Casey MeehanGUEST
Um, and you know, I think while those topics can be quite uncomfortable and y- you know, readers may have to grapple with some of these hard topics, they're not experiences that are entirely immune to our young readers.
Casey MeehanGUEST
I mean, we hear from these authors, Laurie Halse Anderson and Patricia McCormick, who are, um, authors that are frequently banned, Ellen Hopkins, and they just, Jodi Picoult, they share all the time how readers of their titles, um, give, you know, find literacy to talk about their own experiences or gain empathy and understanding, um, how, um, other people's lives can, are, are, could be m- you know, more challenging or different than their own.
Casey MeehanGUEST
So, you know, there's so much value in reading books, and we hear directly from young readers, we hear directly from the authors who write these books for young readers, um, that these books are, are essential and, and have, you know, really important audiences.
Matthew PeddieHOST
Have you had conversations with folks who are more on the side of like why, uh, you know, are my kids, for example, being exposed to these books? Like I w- I'm sort of wondering how some of those conversations might go.
Alan BlackburnNARRATOR
Stephen King was the most banned book author with three hundred and twelve bans.
Alan BlackburnNARRATOR
Ellen Hop-Ellen Hopkins, whose young adult novels include violent and sexual themes, was the second most banned author with two hundred and thirty-four, according to the report.
Alan BlackburnNARRATOR
In tuning in previous trends, the report said book bans have overwhelmingly targeted titles that center on themes including racism, LGBTQ+ issues, and sexuality.
Alan BlackburnNARRATOR
PEN American defines a book ban as any action taken against a book based on its content, and as a result of parent or, or community challenges, administrative decisions, or in response to direct or threatened decisio-action by lawmakers or government-- other government officials, that leads to a book being either completely removed from availability to students or, or where access to a book is rest-restricted or diminished.
Alan BlackburnNARRATOR
Stephen King was the most banned book author with 312 bans.
Alan BlackburnNARRATOR
Ellen Hop-Ellen Hopkins, whose young adult novels include violent and sexual themes, was the second most banned author with 234, according to the report.
Alan BlackburnNARRATOR
In turning in previous trends, the report said book bans have overwhelmingly targeted titles that center on themes including racism, LGBTQ+ issues, and sexuality.
Alan BlackburnNARRATOR
PEN American defines a book ban as any action taken against a book based on its content and as a result of parent or, or community challenges, administrative decisions, or in response to direct or threatened decisio-action by lawmakers or government, other government officials that leads to a book being either completely removed from availability to students or, or where access to a book is rest-restricted or diminished.
ReeseHOST
It's about a girl who is sexually assaulted.
ReeseHOST
The Ellen Hopkins book Crank, pulled from 22 districts, is a verse novel about meth.
ReeseHOST
And, of course, there's The Handmaid's Tale and Sarah Mass' Kingdom of Ash.
ReeseHOST
which was pulled from 21 districts.