Dirt at Ida Rupp
Sexual Education Programs:
The Ida Rupp Public Library (IRPL) can be viewed online at https://www.idarupp.org/ & their calendar at https://www.idarupp.org/calendar
The IRPL scheduled a group from Columbus called Kaleidoscope. (https://www.kycohio.org/) on April 10, 2023.
From the Ida Rupp Public website calendar, Monday April 10, 2023: 3:30PM - LGBTQ+ 101 with Kaleidoscope Youth Center. Event details: Teens in grades 6-12 are invited to come to the library for a special presentation. There will be time for questions and answers guided by a guest speaker. Kaleidoscope Youth Center of Columbus, Ohio will be joining Mrs. Alana Magrum to allow teens to discuss in an open but guided forum. Teens are welcome to attend and ask any questions they may have or even just to come to listen and learn. For more information about the Kaleidoscope organization, please visit: http://www.kycohio.org/. No registration required. Event type(s): Teen program. Age Group(s): Teens.
The following is a clause on the first page of the Kaleidoscope Youth Center Website: KYC offers FREE Drop-in Center programming for youth ages 12-20. During Center Based Program hours, KYC is closed to anyone who is over 20 or under 12 years old. This includes parents, guardians, family, counselors, etc. Only KYC staff and volunteers with background checks are permitted. Please contect info@kycohio.org with any questions!
The IRPL's request to distribute flyers was declined by the Port Clinton Board of Education & Immaculate Conception Catholic School.
WARNING:
Many of these books are VERY graphic in words and/or pictures in the links provided.
Click the links to view select pages from books with questionable content that IRPL has on their shelves available for children under 18 years old in our community.
List of Sexually Explicit Books in the Juvenile Section which should be moved to the Adult Section, labeled as "Harmful to Minors", and require Parental Consent:
* Denotes this book was originally listed in the Juvenile section was moved in September 2023. (A: Moved to Adult section at IRPL branches. X: No longer available at IRPL branches.)
Gender Queer – Kobabe (Graphic Novel) https://tinyurl.com/2p956bm3 *Selection read at Board Meeting* (A)
Push – Saphire https://tinyurl.com/yz2tak2c *Selection read at Board Meeting* (A)
All Boys Aren’t Blue - Johnson https://tinyurl.com/2p9er68e *Selection read at Board Meeting*
The Bluest Eye - Morrison https://tinyurl.com/2p8k6rp9 (A)
Lawn Boy - Evison https://tinyurl.com/28ajdtu6 (A)
Red Hood – Elana K. Arnold https://tinyurl.com/27bswy2z
What Girls Are Made Of – Elana K. Arnold https://tinyurl.com/3886j6xy
Speak (Graphic Novel) – Anderson https://tinyurl.com/3b8cmmzs
Homegoing - Gyasi https://tinyurl.com/ye3y6anf (A)
Maybe Now - Hoover https://tinyurl.com/bdee6tet (A)
A Sin Such as This - Hopkins https://tinyurl.com/yck7ehtp (A)
Crank - Hopkins https://tinyurl.com/4wnyjx7k
Identical - Hopkins https://tinyurl.com/5n6mswxj (X)
The Sun And Her Flowers – Kaur (illustrations) https://tinyurl.com/2y6ktsvm
Milk and Honey – Kaur (Illustrations) https://tinyurl.com/ykvdzfhs (X)
Last Night at the Telegraph Club https://tinyurl.com/2h9brrkd
A Court of Frost and Starlight - Maas https://tinyurl.com/r739d2m8
A Court of Silver Flames – Maas https://tinyurl.com/2y6ktsvm (A)
A Court of Wings and Ruins -Maas https://tinyurl.com/yckw5ddv (X)
The House of Earth and Blood - Maas https://tinyurl.com/3rpv2ncv
Kingdom of Ash - Maas https://tinyurl.com/bdbmj3k6
YOLO – Myracle https://tinyurl.com/424pra3j
Breathless - Niven https://tinyurl.com/82z9kyek
This Book is Gay https://tinyurl.com/2yvfv6fz
Flamer – Curato (Graphic Novel) https://tinyurl.com/mr2792zv
The Hate U Give – Thomas https://tinyurl.com/bdfvcnt3
Assassination Classroom series – Matsui https://tinyurl.com/rpvd4kcw
The Handmaids Tale Graphic Novel - Atwood https://tinyurl.com/mryvskr2 (A)
The house of earth and blood - Maas
Kingdom of Ash - Maas
The female species - McGinnis
Heroine - McGinnis
Red, white, and royal blue - McQuiston
How beautiful the Ordinary - multiple authors
Shine - Myracle
YOLO - Myracle
Like a love story -
Breathless -
Normal people - Rooney
Slaughterhouse five -
Black Flamingo - Dean Atta
We Request These Books at Our Library to be Labeled with a Sticker in Children's Section as Gender Ideology:
Children's Books:
I am Jazz - Jessica Herthan & Jazz Jennings
I’m not a girl: A transgender story - Jessica Verdi & Maddox Lyons
Introducing Teddy: A gentle story about gender & friendships - Jessica Walton
Jack (not Jackie) - Erica SIlverman
Julian is a mermaid - Jessica Love
Neither - Anderson Airlie
Peanut goes for the Gold - Jonathan Van Ness
Red: A crayon’s story - MIchael Hall
The Family book - Todd Parr
When Aidan became a brother - Kyle Lukoff
Wild - Emily Hughes
Pride Puppy - Robin Stevenson
Maiden & Princess - Daniel Haack & Isabel Galupo
Juvenile books:
My aunt is a monster - Reimena Yee
The ghosts we keep - Mason Deaver
The other boy - M.G. Henneseey
The witch king - H. E. Edgmon
Tomorrow will be different: love, loss & the fight for trans equality - Sarah McBride
Too bright to see - Kyle Lukoff
Trans teen survival guide - Fox Fisher
A boy named queen - Sara Cassidy
Another Kind - Trevor Beam
Both can be true - Jules Machias
Cattywampus - Ash Van Otterloo
Deadendia (series) - Hamish Steele
Dodge City - Josh Trujilo
Lily and Dunkin - Donna Gephart
Growing up trans: in our own words - Lindsey Herriot and Kate Fry
Melissa - Alex Gino
My life as a diamond - Jenny Manzer
Obie is man enough - Schuyler Bailar
Prince & the dressmaker - Jen Wang
Redwood and Ponytail - K.A. Holt
Snapdragon - Kat Leyh
Spin with me - Ami Polonsky
The breakaways - Cathy G. Johnson
The deep and dark blue - Niki Smith
The derby daredevils (series) - Kit Rosewater
The Fabulous Zed Watson - Basil & Kevin Silverster
The moon within - Aida Salazar
The pants project - Cat Clarke
The Witch boy - Molly Knox Ostertag
This is our rainbow: 16 stories of her, him, them, and us - Katherine Locke
Zenobia July - Lisa Bunker
List of Books we have yet to Review that have been flagged by other concerned groups:
Cemetery boys - Aidan Thomas
Felix Ever after - Kacer Cellendar
I wish you all the Best - Mason Deaver
On a sunbeam - TIllie Walden
Pet - Akwaeke Emezi
Redefining realness - Janet Mcck
Rethinking normal: A memoir in transition - Katie Rain HIll
Riding freedom - Pam Munoz Ryan
Sasha masha - Agnes Borinsky
She/he/they/me: For the sisters, misters, and the binary resisters - Robyn Ryle
Some assembly required: the not-so-secret life of a transgender teen - Arin Andrews
Stage dreams -Melanie Gillman
Symptoms of being human - Jeff Garvin
Tomboy: A graphic memoir - Liz Prince
The art of being normal - Lisa WIlliamson
The backstagers - James Tynion IV
The complications of T - Bey Deckard
The Gender Quest Workbook: A guide for teens and young adults exploring gender identity - Ryan Tests & Deborah Coolhard
Coming out: Insight tips - Endsley
Top 250 LGBTQ books - Cart
There are numerous books that are not listed which have obscene sexual content or may have reference to gender ideology/orientation which will need to be labeled as such. If you discover a book, please email us at CleanUpIdaRupp@gmail.com to include it on this list. Books may have been moved from the Juvenile Section to the Adult Section since our last review. If this is the case, please let us know what title you have observed to have been moved so it can be marked as moved.