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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2007, 2002
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An introduction to the life and career of American author Mark Twain told in the voice Huckleberry Finn, one of his most enduring characters.
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4.4 stars
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TOP 13 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS OF 2022; TOP 10 2021
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From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys. Both a primer for teens eager to be allies as well as a reassuring testimony for young queer men of color, All Boys Aren't Blue covers topics such as gender identity, toxic masculinity, brotherhood, family,...
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David Pelzer trilogy volume 1.
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3.1 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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Tells the story of a child's abuse at the hands of his alcoholic mother
An autobiographical account that tells the story of a child's abuse at the hands of his alcoholic mother.
[This book] is [an] account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played torturous, unpredictable games - games that...
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4.2 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2012
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The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities.
In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and...
5. I am Jazz
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2.5 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015
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From the time she was two years old, Jazz knew that she had a girl's brain in a boy's body. She loved pink and dressing up as a mermaid and didn't feel like herself in boys' clothing. This confused her family, until they took her to a doctor who said that Jazz was transgender and that she was born that way.
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4.3 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2007, 2004, 2002, 2001
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A black woman recalls the anguish of her childhood in Arkansas and her adolescence in northern slums.