11 people were responsible for 60% of book bans in the 2021-2022 school year. Jennifer Petersen filed 71 challenges in the district where her younger child goes to school, against books such as “Red, White and Royal Blue,” which is about a relationship between the son of a U.S. president and an English prince, and Jodi Picoult’s “Nineteen Minutes,” a novel about a school shooting. Here's the full story (may be paywalled). 

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