The board decided unanimously Tuesday — without being required to read them — that the books Elana K. Arnold’s “Damsel,” Colleen Hoover’s “Ugly Love,” Sally Rooney’s “Normal People” and four popular fantasy novels by Sarah J. Maas are too dangerous for teenagers that the state licenses to drive.
No one had lodged a new complaint about any of these books. Rather, the chair of the Board of Education’s Instructional Materials Review Committee had asked state officials for a list of books that could be challenged or considered controversial.
