by Samantha Hernandez, Tim Webber, Chris Higgins, Phillip Sitter, F. Amanda Tugade and Kyle Werner, Des Moines Register • 11 months ago
Part of a continuing series in the Des Moines Registers Iowas Book Ban Battle project.Last fall, Mari Butler Abry was one of hundreds of educators facing a daunting new task: vetting thousands of books to comply with a sweeping Iowa education law that bans books depicting sex acts from schools.A