Belton ISD: What are kids reading in the Lake Belton High School Library?

Feb 8, 20232 min read

Here are searches in the Lake Belton High School's own library catalog. From the catalog, I searched "abortion", "transgender", "gay", "lesbian", "racism", "sex instruction", "rape fiction", and I also searched for particular titles that did not come up in my searches.

Notice how many results come up for each search! Here are just SOME of the results:

Here are scanned pages from Jane Against the World:

Here are scanned pages from the book Unpregnant:

after the abortion.....

Here are scanned pages from Boy Meets Boy:

and from the end of the book....

How do Tony's parents react?

This is a scanned page from Bloom:

Kids love graphic novels, parents never suspect that a graphic novel has THIS in it, and once you see a visual of something you can't get rid of it in your head.

These are scanned pages from The Summer of Jordi Perez:

Here are scanned pages from Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me:

Here are scanned pages from Tyler Johnson Was Here:

Here are scanned pages from We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide:

and from another chapter in the book.....

The book even includes a discussion guide:

These are scanned pages from Blood, Water, Paint:

These are scanned pages from Girl Made of Stars:

The female narrator and her female friend, Charlie, start dating.

The female narrator is sexually abused by her teacher.

The narrator's brother is accused of rape.

The narrator and her boyfriend have a sexual encounter in his bedroom at home.

The female narrator's former girlfriend, Charlie, confesses.

These are scanned pages from Birthday, a book about two male friends Eric and Morgan:

Morgan tells his friend, Eric, that he feels like he is supposed to be a girl and not a boy.

Morgan can't tell his father that he feels like he is really a girl.

His friend, Eric, tries to stay friends with him.

Morgan tries kissing a girl.

Morgan fantasizes about boys he knows while pretending he's actually a girl.

Eric's friends give him a pornographic magazine.

Morgan talks to a therapist about transitioning to a female.

These are scanned pages from The Art of Being Normal:

David, a character in the book, wants to be a girl.

He enjoys wearing his mother's clothes.

Leo tells his friend, David, that he is really a girl even though he looks like a boy due to the hormone blockers he takes .

These are scanned pages from Running With Scissors. Warning: This book contains graphic descriptions of sex between a fourteen-year-old boy and a thirty-three-year-old man as well as a graphic description of sex between lesbians. Keep in mind that high school kids can read this in their library at school.