Jennifer Petersen flips through "Boy Toy," "sexual content" marked with dozens of colorful sticky notes, while posing for a portrait at her home on Tuesday, August 22, 2023, in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Petersen has filed challenges against 71 books with Spotsylvania County Public Schools, the Virginia district her children attend.

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A Hamsa Hand magnet holds a May 2022 Free Lance–Star newspaper clipping about book challenges on Jennifer Petersen's refrigerator, Tuesday, August 22, 2023, in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Petersen has filed challenges against 71 books with Spotsylvania County Public Schools, the Virginia district her children attend.

Jennifer Petersen speaks during the public comment section of a Spotsylvania County School Board meeting on Tuesday, August 14, 2023, in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Petersen has filed challenges against 71 books with Spotsylvania County Public Schools, the Virginia district her children attend.

Spotsylvania County Public Schools teacher Melissa Brace bows her head after a speaker called for "mandatory molestation centers" for children during the public comment section of a Spotsylvania County School Board meeting on Tuesday, August 14, 2023, in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

An aerial view of Spotsylvania Courthouse, the county seat of Spotsylvania County, on Tuesday, August 22, 2023, in Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia.

Jennifer Petersen pets Jax the cat while sitting on her living room couch, where she usually reads, on Tuesday, August 22, 2023, in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Petersen has filed challenges against 71 books with Spotsylvania County Public Schools, the Virginia district her children attend.

73 children's books that Jennifer Petersen read in the course of a year sit on a bookshelf in Petersen's home on Tuesday, August 22, 2023, in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Petersen has filed challenges against 71 books with Spotsylvania County Public Schools, the Virginia district her children attend.

Jennifer Petersen shows a highlighted passage in "Oryx and Crake," "sexual content" marked with colorful sticky notes, at her home on Tuesday, August 22, 2023, in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Petersen has filed challenges against 71 books with Spotsylvania County Public Schools, the Virginia district her children attend.