A panel of Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board members Thursday upheld the superintendent's decision to keep two challenged books in high school libraries.

Superintendent Crystal Hill has reversed a CMS media review panel’s decision and ordered the young adult novel “Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts)” removed from all Charlotte-Mecklenburg school libraries. Her decision was based on a new policy created in response to North Carolina’s Parents Bill of Rights.

At school board meetings across the country, you’ll hear plenty of name-calling when it comes to library books with controversial content — which is why it was refreshing and a bit surprising to hear the calm deliberations as a new CMS panel set up to review book challenges held its first two meetings.

A new Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools panel created to rule on challenged books makes its first decision to remove “A Court of Frost and Starlight” by Sarah J. Maas from school libraries.

After reporting on the recent decision by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ leaders to ban activities related to Banned Books Week, then quickly retract that decision, it’s still not clear how the observances were incorrectly linked to North Carolina’s new Parents’ Bill of Rights law.

A new Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools panel on book challenges decides to keep two young-adult novels in high school libraries. The next three challenges may be tougher to decide.

We've heard from parents, authors, activists and other adults about banned books. But we haven't heard much from kids. We asked four young readers to share their thoughts about book bans.

The latest in culture wars: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools bans "Banned Books Week," then backtracks and leaves it up to schools.

The details vary by location: Catawba County has Mama Bears instead of Moms for Liberty. Catawba’s book protests draw a lot of religious comments, while Mecklenburg’s strike a secular note. The two districts have different rules for challenging library and classroom material. But there are common threads to the book challenges taking place across the country.

Book ban battles in Catawba County Schools are drawing big, intense crowds as a "Mama Bear" school board member votes on challenges she has brought.