The Utah State Board of Education has ordered schools to remove 13 books, including works by Judy Blume, Rupi Kaur, Sarah J. Maas, Margaret Atwood and other authors, for content they deem to be pornographic or indecent under a new state law.
Free speech advocates say this the first statewide book ban as, traditionally, schools and libraries have decided which books are appropriate for children giving due consideration to their literary or artistic value, ABC News reported.
