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Materials in Virginia Beach Secondary School Libraries that Include Sexually Explicit Content
Virginia Beach City Public School Board Policy 6-65 and Regulation 6-65.3 state that secondary school library collections may contain materials that include sexually explicit content. These documents also require that such materials that are incoming as of the start of the 2024-2025 school year must be identified and placed on a public-facing list. The titles listed below include a sentence, a short passage, or a page that meets the definition for sexually explicit content. Parents and legal guardians of minor students who wish to restrict their students from accessing these materials may do so by completing and submitting a Request for Limited Access to Library Materials of General Interest (Individual Student) form.
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| A Study in Drowning | Reid, Ava |
| Adventures of Mary Jane | Jahren, Hope |
| After Life | Forman, Gayle |
| All the Bright Places | Niven, Jennifer |
| All This Twisted Glory | Mafi, Tahereh |
| Art Book, The (Big Ideas Simply Explained) | Published by DK |
| Art of Being Normal, The | Williamson, Lisa |
| Art: A Visual History | Cumming, Robert |
| Ballad of Never After, The | Garber, Stephanie |
| Beloved | Morrison, Toni |
| Better in Black | Clare, Cassandra |
| Bitten | Gray, Jordan Stephanie |
| Black Butler XXIX | Toboso, Yana |
| Blackwoods, The | Colbert, Brandy |
| Blood Debts | Anderson, V.P. |
| Bloom | Panetta, Kevin |
| Boyfriend List, The | Lockhart, E. |
| Bright Red Fruit | Elhillo, Safia |
| Brightwood Code, The | Hesse, Monica |
| Canto Contigo | Garza Villa, Johnny |
| Castle of the Cursed | Garber, Romina |
| City of Stardust, The | Summers, Georgia |
| Classical Music Book, The (Big Ideas Simply Explained) | Published by DK |
| Color Purple, The | Walker, Alice |
| Concrete Rose | Thomas, Angie |
| Crowntide | Aster, Alex |
| Cultural Treasures of the World | DK Publishing |
| Curse for True Love, A | Garber, Stephanie |
| Damsel | Arnold, Elana K. |
| Darkhearts | Sutter, James |
| Defy Me | Mafi, Tahereh |
| Dragon and the Sun Lotus, The | Zhao, Amelie Wen |
| Drown Me with Dreams | Burton, Gabi |
| Everlife | Showalter, Gena |
| Evil Queen, The | Showalter, Gena |
| Eyes Open | Miller-Lachman, Lyn |
| Felix Ever After | Callender, Kacen |
| Fire from the Sky | Astot, Moa Backe |
| First to Die at the End, The | Silvera, Adam |
| Flamer | Curato, Mike |
| Fountainhead, The | Rand, Ayn |
| Fragile Enchantment, A | Saft, Allison |
| From Earth to the Shadows | Hocking, Amanda |
| Gifts That Bind Us, The | O'Donoghue, Caroline |
| Girl, Unframed | Caletti, Deb |
| Glass Queen, The | Showalter, Gena |
| Golden Boy's Guide to Bipolar, The | Reyes, Sonora |
| Halo Contact Harvest | Staten, Joseph |
| Heart in the Body in the World, A | Caletti, Deb |
| Heartless Hunter | Ciccarelli, Kristen |
| Heartstopper, Volume 5 | Oseman, Alice |
| Heir | Tahir, Sabaa |
| Hellsing 2 | Hirano, Kohta |
| Hellsing 3 | Hirano, Kohta |
| Hidden Kingdom | Hocking Amanda |
| Honeysuckle and Bone | Tobias, Trisha |
| I am the Swarm | Chewins, Hayley |
| I Have the Right To: a High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice and Hope | Prout, Chessy |
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Angelou, Maya |
| Icon and Inferno | Lu, Marie |
| If Only I Had Told Her | Nowlin, Laura |
| If Tomorrow Doesn't Come | St. Jude, Jen |
| Ignite Me | Mafi, Tahereh |
| Immortal Dark | Girma, Tigest |
| Into the Light | Oshiro, Mark |
| It | King, Stephen |
| It Doesn’t Have to be Awkward | Pinsky, Dr. Drew and Paulina |
| Last Vampire, The | Garber, Romina |
| Lessons in Chemistry | Garmus, Bonnie |
| Lightlark | Aster, Alex |
| Literature Book, The | DK Publishing |
| Love Radio | LaDelle, Ebony |
| Made in China | Qu, Anna |
| Medicine Book, The | DK Publishing |
| Medusa: New and Ancient Greek Tales | Albert, Liv |
| Minus-One Club, The | Magoon, Kekla |
| Mirrored Heavens | Roanhorse, Rebecca |
| Morgana Le Fay: New & Ancient Arthurian Tales | Koehne-Drube, Pamela |
| My Throat an Open Grave | Bovalino, Tori |
| Nightbane | Aster, Alex |
| NIV Action Study Bible, The | Catherine Devries (editor) |
| Not Like Other Girls | Adamo, Meredith |
| Of Earthly Delights | Moldavsky, Goldy |
| Once a Villain | Len, Vanessa |
| Ones Who Come Back Hungry, The | Berube, Amelinda |
| Perfect Little Monsters | He, Cindy |
| Pet Sematary | King, Stephen |
| Playin’ Hard | Grandison, Whitney |
| Postscript | McCarthy, Cory |
| Pushing Hope- An Illustrated Memoir of Survival | Santana, Raymond |
| Queen's Spade, The | Raughley, Sarah |
| Quiet Kind of Thunder, A | Barnard, Sara |
| Ramona Blue | Murphy, Julie |
| Rana Joon and the One & Only Now | Etaat, Shideh |
| Rebel Girls Of Rome, The | Taylor, Jordan |
| Red Car to Hollywood, The | Liu, Jennie |
| Regulators, The | King, Stephen |
| Restore Me | Mafi, Tahereh |
| Road Home | Ogle, Rex |
| Rose Bargain, The | Smith, Sasha Peyton |
| Ruins Beneath Us | Sloan, Sasha |
| Scorpion and the Night Blossom, The | Zhao, Amelie |
| Secret Book of Flora Lee, The | Henry, Patti Callahan |
| See No Color | Gibney, Shannon |
| Shakespeare Book, The | DK Publishing, by Wells, Stanley |
| Sharp Edge of Silence, The | Rosenblum, Cameron Kelly |
| Shining, The | King, Stephen |
| Shiny Happy People | Chapman, Clay M. |
| Shut Up, This Is Serious | Ixta, Carolina |
| Sisters in the Wind | Boulley, Angeline |
| Skipsock | O’Donoghue, Caroline |
| Skyshade | Aster, Alex |
| Slaughterhouse Five | Vonnegut, Kurt |
| Soul Eater, Vol. 1 | Ohkubo, Atsushi |
| Spinning | Walden, Tillie |
| Stolen Midnights | Quinn, Katherine |
| Storybooth; The True and Amazing and Heartbreaking and Inspiring Stories of Real People | Sinel, Marcey Kaye and Joshua |
| Suffragist's Guide to the Antarctic | Lai, Yi Shun |
| Thirsty | Hammonds, Jas |
| Thirteenth Child, The | Craig, Erin |
| Tidal | Hocking, Amanda |
| Tigers Not Daughters | Mabry, Samantha |
| Timelines of Art | Chilvers, Ian |
| Tokyo Ghoul re: 12 | Ishida, Sui |
| Twenty-Four Seconds From Now | Reynolds, Jason |
| Under the Same Stars | Bray, Libba |
| Way I Am Now, The | Smith, Amber |
| We are the ants | Hutchinson, Shaun David |
| We Must Not Think of Ourselves | Grodstein, Lauren |
| What the River Knows | Ibanez, Isabel |
| When the World Tips Over | Nelson, Jandy |
| Where the Library Hides | Ibanez, Isabel |
| Whiteout | Thomas, Angie; Woodfolk, Ashley; Yoon, Nicola |
| Wide Awake Now | Levithan, David |
| Wildblood | Blackwood, Lauren |
| Wish You Were Her | McNicoll, Elle |
| Wisteria | Grace, Adalyn |
| Witchstone, The | Neff, Henry |
| YOLO | Myracle, Lauren |
| You are the Detective: The Creeping Hand Murder | Johnson, Maureen and Cooper, Joy |
| You Too? 25 Voices Share Their #MeToo Stories | Gurtler, Janet (editor) |
| Zealot | Thornely, Jo |