Instructional Materials And School-Based Media
The Okaloosa County School District adopts instructional materials for specific courses within a selected subject area on a rotating basis. The Florida Department of Education (FLDOE) publishes specifications for course materials and standards. Detailed information is available on the FLDOE website.
ADOPTED TEXTBOOKS FOR CORE COURSES
SUPPLEMENTAL INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS BY SCHOOL SITE
LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
School Board Policy #03-03: Operational Policies for Okaloosa District School Media Centers
Specific Material Objection Form MIS 6124
Okaloosa County School District is conducting an internal District review of some of its library books whose content might be questionable due to age appropriateness as defined by Section 1006.40 (3)(d), Florida Statutes, and HB 1069 as of July 1, 2023.
Books being reviewed will show an "Available" status in the library media center circulation database. However, they will not be available for check out.
The following books are under internal review:
LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER COLLECTIONS
All materials available in the media center at any school site can be found below:
Title | Author | Status |
---|---|---|
A Court of Thorns and Roses | Maas, Sarah J. | Removed from all libraries. |
A Court of Wings and Ruin | Maas, Sarah J. | Removed from all libraries. |
After | Efaw, Amy | Awaiting Review |
Beetle & the Hollowbones | Layne, Aliza | Awaiting Review |
Beloved | Morrison, Toni | Awaiting Review |
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out | Kuklin, Susan | Awaiting Review |
Boy2girl | Blacker, Terence | Awaiting Review |
Clockwork Princess | Clare, Cassandra | Awaiting Review |
Crank | Hopkins, Ellen | Awaiting Review |
Damsel | Arnold, Elana K. | Awaiting Review |
Darius the Great Deserves Better | Khorram, Adib | Awaiting Review |
Defy Me | Mafi, Tahereh | Awaiting Review |
Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda | Stassen, Jean-Philippe | Awaiting Review |
Dime | Frank, E.R. | Awaiting Review |
Drama | Telgemeier, Raina | In Process |
Eleanor & Park | Rowell, Rainbow | Awaiting Review |
Empire of Storms | Maas, Sarah J. | Awaiting Review |
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Foer, Jonathan | Awaiting Review |
Fable | Young, Adrienne | Awaiting Review |
Fade | McMann, Lisa | Awaiting Review |
Fallout | Hopkins, Ellen | Awaiting Review |
Fangirl: A Novel | Rowell, Rainbow | Awaiting Review |
Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything | Lockhart, E. | Awaiting Review |
Forever | Blume, Judy | Awaiting Review |
Girl Made of Stars | Blake, Ashley Herring | Awaiting Review |
Go Ask Alice | Anonymous | Awaiting Review |
Graceling | Cashore, Kristin | Awaiting Review |
Grit | French, Gillian | Awaiting Review |
Hate Crimes in America | Abramovitz, Melissa | Awaiting Review |
Heir of Fire | Maas, Sarah J. | Awaiting Review |
Heroine | McGinnis, Mindy | Awaiting Review |
Identical | Hopkins, Ellen | Awaiting Review |
Ignite Me; Book 3 | Mafi, Tahereh | Awaiting Review |
Impulse | Hopkins, Ellen | Awaiting Review |
It: A Novel | King, Stephen | Awaiting Review |
Jesus Land: A Memoir | Scheeres, Julia | Removed from all libraries. |
Killing Mr. Griffin | Duncan, Lois | Awaiting Review |
Lady Midnight | Clare, Cassandra | Awaiting Review |
Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances | Green, John, Johnson, Maureen, and Myracle, Lauren | Awaiting Review |
Looking for Alaska | Green, John | Awaiting Review |
Lucky | Sebold, Alice | Removed from all libraries. |
Lush | Friend, Natasha | Awaiting Review |
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl | Andrews, Jesse | Awaiting Review |
Monday's Not Coming | Jackson, Tiffany D. | Awaiting Review |
More Happy Than Not | Silvera, Adam | Awaiting Review |
Nineteen Minutes | Picoult, Jodi | Removed from all libraries. |
Outlander | Gabaldon, Diana | Removed from all libraries. |
Ramona Blue | Murphy, Julie | Awaiting Review |
Real Live Boyfriends | Lockhart, E. | Awaiting Review |
Red Hood | Arnold, Elana K. | Removed from all libraries. |
Relish: My Life in the Kitchen | Knisley, Lucy | Removed from all libraries. |
Shatter Me; Book 1 | Mafi, Tahereh | Awaiting Review |
Simon vs. the Homo sapiens agenda | Albertalli, Becky | Awaiting Review |
Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death | North, Ryan | Awaiting Review |
Sold | McCormick, Patricia | Awaiting Review |
Stealing Heaven | Spencer, Elizabeth | Awaiting Review |
Storm and Fury | Armentrout, Jennifer L. | Awaiting Review |
The 57 Bus | Slater, Dashka | Awaiting Review |
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian | Alexie, Sherman | In Process |
The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel | Stein, Garth | Awaiting Review |
The Assassin's Blade: The Throne of Glass Novellas | Maas, Sarah J. | Awaiting Review |
The Black Flamingo | Atta, Dean | Awaiting Review |
The Carnival at Bray | Foley, Jessie Ann | Awaiting Review |
The Family Book | Parr, Todd | Awaiting Review |
The Family Fletcher Takes Rock Island | Levy, Dana Alison | Awaiting Review |
The Hate u Give | Thomas, Angie | In Process |
The Haters | Andrews, Jesse | Awaiting Review |
The House of the Spirits | Allende, Isabel | Awaiting Review |
The House on Mango Street | Cisneros, Sandra | Awaiting Review |
The Kite Runner | Hosseini, Khaled | Awaiting Review |
The Longest Ride | Sparks, Nicholas | High School Only |
The Magic Fish | Trung, Le Nguyen | Awaiting Review |
The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James | Blake, Ashley Herring | Awaiting Review |
The Nowhere Girls | Reed, Amy Lynn | Awaiting Review |
The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Chbosky, Stephen | Awaiting Review |
The Poet X: A Novel | Acevedo, Elizabeth | Awaiting Review |
The Truth About Alice | Mathieu, Jennifer | Awaiting Review |
The Upside of Unrequited | Albertalli, Becky | Awaiting Review |
The Witch Boy | Ostertag, Molly Knox | Awaiting Review |
Thirteen Reasons Why | Asher, Jay | Awaiting Review |
Throne of Glass | Maas, Sarah J. | Awaiting Review |
Tilt | Hopkins, Ellen | Removed from all libraries. |
Tower of Dawn | Maas, Sarah J. | Awaiting Review |
Tricks | Hopkins, Ellen | Removed from all libraries. |
Twisted | Anderson, Laurie Halse | Awaiting Review |
Two Boys Kissing | Levithan, David | Awaiting Review |
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy | Acho, Emmanuel | Awaiting Review |
Unite Me; Book 2: Destroy Me and Fracture Me | Mafi, Tahereh | Awaiting Review |
Unravel me | Mafi, Tahereh | Awaiting Review |
Vanishing Acts | Picoult, Jodi | Awaiting Review |
Water for Elephants: A Novel | Gruen, Sara | Removed from all libraries. |
We are the Ants | Hutchinson, Shaun David | Awaiting Review |
What Girls Are Made Of | Arnold, Elana K. | Removed from all libraries. |
Where I End & You Begin | Norton, Preston | Awaiting Review |
Zahra's Paradise | Amir | Removed from all libraries. |
INSTRUCTIONAL NOVEL PROCEDURES
Outside approval request forms with parent permission slip 1090 A, 1090 B, and 1090 C. These can also be found at http://forms.okaloosaschools.com/.