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Oct 14, 2026
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.
speaker_0HOST
So depriving our children of books that interest them or speak to things they're going through is a particularly sinister type of censorship.
speaker_0HOST
While the majority of titles banned were fiction or manga, the most frequently banned book last year was sold by Patricia McCormick.
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The Guardian described the book as a YA novel that involves a teen from Nepal who is sold into sexual servitude.
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McCormick issued a statement released by PEN America.
Sabrina GaroneHOST
Special thanks to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Sabrina GaroneHOST
What happens when you ban a book? What kind of ripple effect does it have on schools, libraries, and communities? Well, WSHU's book critic Joan Baum explored these questions with Patricia McCormick, the author of the most banned book in the U.S.
Sabrina GaroneHOST
called Sold.
Sabrina GaroneHOST
Here is an excerpt of their conversation and a listener advisory.
speaker_1HOST
Yeah.
speaker_1HOST
The author is Patricia McCormick, not Patrick, as a previous version of the article apparently misstated.
speaker_1HOST
Accuracy matters immensely when we are dissecting data and records.
speaker_2HOST
It absolutely does.
speaker_1HOST
So Patricia McCormick's novel Sold deals with a girl who is sold into sexual slavery in India.
speaker_2HOST
It is an intensely dark, traumatic, and heavy subject matter.
speaker_1HOST
And when you look at the other major targets on this list, a distinct pattern of trauma really emerges.
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.
speaker_0NARRATOR
US Libraries The American Library Association is observing its annual Banned Books Week through Saturday under the theme Let Books Be, Protect the Freedom to Read.
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The Association's list of the most challenged books of 2025 is led by Sold by Patricia McCormick, The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, and Genderqueer by Maya Kobabe.
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To mark its 150th anniversary yesterday, the association also released a list of the 150 most challenged books since 1990.
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Arizona State judicial officials say the personal information of some 1.3 million people was stolen last month in a cyberattack on Arizona's court system, along with records of nearly 30,000 orders of protection.
Ella BicknellCORRESPONDENT
Pen America says themes of race, sexuality, and gender identity remain the most common reasons why books are challenged.
Ella BicknellCORRESPONDENT
The most prohibited book was Sold by Patricia McCormick.
Ella BicknellCORRESPONDENT
Stephen King was the most widely banned author.
Ella BicknellCORRESPONDENT
There's also been increasing restrictions of Japanese manga and even Charlotte Bronte's classic Jane Eyre appeared on the list for the very first time.
Ali VelshiHOST
According to PEN America, quote, In several cases, AI recommended banning books that were banned elsewhere, creating a snowball effect for frequently banned books, while the expertise of librarians and the communities they serve are ignored, end quote.
Ali VelshiHOST
The number one most banned title of the year was Patricia McCormick's award-winning book, Sold, which is a heavily researched novel that leans on firsthand accounts and interviews that McCormick conducted to tell the story of a teenager sold into sex slavery.
Ali VelshiHOST
That's the graphic content that gets it banned.
Ali VelshiHOST
But McCormick has explained why banning books like hers based on the real experiences of real girls dishonors those experiences and cuts off a lifeline for children who are currently suffering.
Cherry GreggHOST
Okay.
Kevin McCorryHOST
This is according to PEN America, which puts the 2006 book Sold by Patricia McCormick at the top of its 2026 banned book list.
Cherry GreggHOST
Mm-hmm.
Kevin McCorryHOST
Now, it's the story of a 13-year-old girl in Nepal-
ReeseHOST
Florida had similar rules for years.
ReeseHOST
The most removed title is Patricia McCormick's Sold.
ReeseHOST
It was pulled from 25 districts.
ReeseHOST
It's a novel about a 13-year-old girl sold into prostitution.