A notable phenomenon in US schools is the recent increase in book bans. Between 2021-2023, book bans rose 33% in K-12 public schools. The most consistently challenged books are those that center the lives, histories, and perspectives of people of color and members of the LGBTQIA+ community. The Great Banned-Books Bake Sale is a trade book that describes this movement to censor in a child-accessible way. The book tells the story of Kanzi, an Egyptian American Arabic elementary school student who suddenly can’t find books with characters who look like her in her school library. She is dismayed t