Adult Rated School Books List
from "minor restricted" to "aberrant content" available to as young as 11 years old
This information was sent in to us from a parent in Beaufort County, South Carolina. We can not verify the ratings, who rated them, what criteria or scale that was used in the rating or if the ratings would be the same here in New Jersey.
*This list is just for awareness and reference use only.
Beaufort County Board of Education Meeting
October 18, 2022
Here is a direct video timestamped link to a parent’s comment during public commentary. He reads a descriptive excerpt direct from a book on this list and says there are 13 more pages with similar content in just that book alone. He went on to inform the Board of Education, he is filing a criminal complaint with the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office for 4 South Carolina codes that are being violated by having these books available to students as young as 11 because the Board of Education has ignored the previous requests for removal. (35:51 - 39:19)
Adult Ratings
The books contain material that are given a “rating” and fall within 1 of the 3 following categories:
3 is defined as minor restricted, under 18 requires guidance of parent or guardian
4 is defined as no minors, adult content, no child under 18
5 is defined as aberrant content, adult only, no minors
Alphabetical List of Books and their Ratings
Beaufort County, South Carolina
1. A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee Rated 3
2. All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson Rated 4
3. All the Things We Do in the Dark by Saundra Mitchell Rated 3
4. Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher Rated 3
5. Ask the Passengers by A.S. King Rated 3
6. Beautiful by Amy Reed Rated 4
7. Boy Girl Boy by Ron Koertge Rated 3
8. Burned by Ellen Hopkins Rated 3
9. Breathless by Jennifer Niven Rated 4
10. *City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare
11. Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare Rated 3
12. Collateral by Ellen Hopkins Rated 4
13. Confess: A Novel by Colleen Hoover Rated 4
14. Cool for the Summer by Dahlia Adler Rated 3
15. Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas Rated 4
16. Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas Rated 4
17. Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas Rated 4
18. Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas Rate 4
19. Crank by Ellen Hopkins Rated 3
20. Damsel by Elana Arnold Rated 4
21. Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell Rated 3
22. Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas Rated 4
23. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer Rated 3
24. Fade by Lisa McMann Rated 3
25. Fallout by Ellen Hopkins Rated 3
26. Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender Rated 3
27. Flamer by Mike Curato Rated 3
28. Forever for a Year by B.T. Gottfred Rated 4
29. Foul is Fair by Hannah Capin Rated 3
30. Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero Rated 3
31. Glass by Ellen Hopkins Rated 3
32. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous Rated 3
33. Grit by Gillian French Rated 3
34. grl2grl by Julie Anne Peters Rated 3
35. Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson Rated 3
36. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Rated 4
37. Hopeless by Colleen Hoover Rated 4
38. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez Rated 3
39. Identical by Ellen Hopkins Rated 4
40. I'll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson Rated 3
41. Impulse by Ellen Hopkins Rated 3
42. It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover Rated 4
43. Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas Rated 4
44. Last night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo Rated 4
45. Layla by Colleen Hoover Rated 4
46. *Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
47. Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott Rated 4
48. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Rated 3
49. Looking for Alaska by John Green Rated 3
50. Lucky by Alice Sebold Rated 5
51. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews Rated 3
52. Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur Rated 4
53. Monday's not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson Rated 3
54. More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera Rated 3
55. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult Rated 4
56. November 9 by Colleen Hoover Rated 4
57. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Rated 4
58. Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez Rated 3
59. Perfect by Ellen Hopkins Rated 4
60. Push a novel by Sapphire Rated 5
61. Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy Rated 3
62. Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson Rated 3
63. Rumble by Ellen Hopkins Rated 3
64. Scars by Cheryl Rainfield Rated 3
65. Shine by Lauren Myracle Rated 4
66. Skin by Donna Jo Napoli Rated 4
67. Smoke by Ellen Hopkins Rated 3
68. Sold by Patricia McCormick Rated 5
69. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Rated 3
70. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein Rated 3
71. The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta Rated 3
72. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Rated 4
73. The Carnival at Bray by Jessie Ann Foley Rated 4
74. The Duff by Kody Keplinger Rated 4
75. The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis Rated 3
76. The Fixer by Bernard Malamud Rated 3
77. The Freedom Writers Diary by The Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell Rated 4
78. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Rated 4
79. The Haters by Jesse Andrews Rated 4
80. The Infinite Moment of Us by Lauren Myracle Rated 4
81. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Rated 4
82. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold Rated 3
83. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Rated 4
84. The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo Rated 3
85. The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu Rated 3
86. The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli Rated 3
87. The You I've Never Known by Ellen Hopkins Rated 3
88. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher Rated 3
89. This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki Rated 3
90. Tilt by Ellen Hopkins Rated 4
91. Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas Rated 3
92. Tricks by Ellen Hopkins Rated 5
93. Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen Rated 4
94. Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson Rated 3
95. Yolk by Mary H. K. Choi Rated 3
96. YOLO by Lauren Myracle Rated 4
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