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Banned, Censored & Challenged Books
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The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom faces many challenges to remove books from shelves. A challenge is defined as a formal, written complaint, filed with a library or school requesting that materials be removed because of content or appropriateness. For every challenge that is reported, 4 or 5 remain unreported. Why do you think these books were challenged?
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Alexie, Sherman The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. 2007 Teen Fiction Book |
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Angelou, Maya I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings The moving and beautiful autobiography of a talented black woman. ". . . I have no words for this achievement, but I know that not since the days of my childhood . . . have I found myself so moved . . . Her portrait is a Biblical study of life in the midst of death".--James Baldwin. 1997 Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography) |
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Anonymous Go Ask Alice A fifteen-year-old drug user chronicles her daily struggles to escape the pull of the drug world. 1971 Teen Fiction Book |
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Bauer, Marion Dane On My Honor When his best friend drowns while they are both swimming in a treacherous river that they had promised never to go near, Joel is devasted and terrified at having to tell both sets of parents the terrible consequences of their disobedience. 1986 Children's Fiction Book |
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Blume, Judy Forever... : a Novel Two high school seniors believe their love to be so strong that it will last forever. 1975 Teen Fiction Book |
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Chbosky, Stephen The Perks of Being a Wallflower Written in the form of letters to an anonymous Dear Friend, shy and introspective Charlie, a high school freshman, documents his day-to-day thoughts and feelings of some of the many struggles faced in high school -- from how to make friends, the intensity of a crush, sexuality, a first romance, family tensions, and experimenting with drugs, to dealing with the recent suicide of his best friend. 1999 Teen Fiction Book |
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Collins, Suzanne The Hunger Games In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. 2008 Teen Fiction Book |
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Cormier, Robert The Chocolate War A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies. 2004 Teen Fiction Book |
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Cormier, Robert We All Fall Down As The Avenger searches for the teenage boys who trashed a house in his neighborhood, Buddy, one of the trashers, increases his drinking in order to cope with his parents' separation and his obsession with the daughter of the owner of the vandalized house. 1993 Teen Fiction Book |
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Crutcher, Chris Whale Talk Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students. 2001 Teen Fiction Book |
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Dahl, Roald James and the Giant Peach A young boy escapes from two wicked aunts and embarks on a series of adventures with six giant insects he meets inside a giant peach. 1995 Children's Fiction Book |
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Ehrenreich, Barbara Nickel and Dimed : On (not) Getting By in America Nickel and Dimed is a modern classic that deftly portrays the plight of America's working-class poor. Author Barbara Ehrenreich decides to see if she can scratch out a comfortable living in blue-collar America. What she discovers is a culture of desperation, where workers often take multiple low-paying jobs just to keep a roof overhead. 2001 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Friend, Natasha Lush Unable to cope with her father's alcoholism, thirteen-year-old Sam corresponds with an older student, sharing her family problems and asking for advice. 2006 Teen Fiction Book |
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Garden, Nancy Annie On My Mind Liza tries to put aside her feelings for Annie after the disaster at Foster Academy, but eventually she allows love to triumph over the ignorance of others. 2007 Teen Fiction Book |
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George, Jean Craighead Julie of the Wolves While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack. 1972 Teen Fiction Book |
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Harris, Robie H. It's Perfectly Normal : a Book About Changing Bodies Growing Up Sex and Sexual Health Providing accurate, unbiased answers to nearly every imaginable question, from conception and puberty to birth control and AIDS, IT'S PERFECTLY NORMAL offers young people the information they need -- now more than ever -- to make responsible decisions and to stay healthy. 2009 Children's Nonfiction Book |
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Hinton, S. E. The Outsiders Ponyboy and his brothers struggle to find their place in a difficult world after the deaths of their parents. 2007 Teen Fiction Book |
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Hopkins, Ellen Crank Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter, gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul - her life. 2004 Teen Fiction Book |
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Huxley, Aldous Brave New World Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. 2006 Adult Fiction Book |
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L'Engle, Madeleine A Wrinkle in Time Meg Murray and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government. 1962 Children's Fiction Book |
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