The ALA's new State of America's Libraries Report [PDF] shows American public and school libraries are being challenged most often over graphic novels like Saga and YA novels and books by people of color like The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.

As James Whitbrook points out on IO9, the challenges to Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples' Saga — the best new comic on stands today in my opinion — is particularly rich with irony. Saga's challengers have accused the book — which is a family saga about parents who resolve to do best by their child in the midst of a war — of being "anti-family" — "In a shocking twist, people calling for a book to be banned may not have actually read the book!"

New State of America's Libraries Report finds shift in role of U.S. libraries [American Library Association]