"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" was located in libraries at Northridge and Greeley Central high schools and at Brentwood Middle School as of early May. "The Kite Runner" was available at Northridge, Greeley Central and Greeley West high schools as of the review dated May 22.
Written by Sherman Alexie and published in 2009, "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" was among the top 10 banned books in 2022 according to the American Library Association.
The committee did not find the book to be "pervasively vulgar," according to the recommendation written by retired assistant superintendent Wes Tuttle, who is one of the committee's facilitators of the review process.