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1. 1984
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4.1 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities.
Written 75 years ago, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever... "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."...
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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TOP 13 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS OF 2022; TOP 10 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010
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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.
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Captain Underpants volume 1.
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4.8 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS OF 2018, 2013, 2012, 2005, 2004, 2002
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Fourth-grade class clowns George Beard and Harold Hutchins have created the greatest superhero in the history of their elementary school -- and now they're going to bring him to life! Meet Captain Underpants! His true identity is SO secret, even HE doesn't know who he is!
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Super diaper baby volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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Irrepressible friends George and Harold create a new comic book superhero, Super Diaper Baby.
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Alice McKinley. Main series volume 1.
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 1990-1999
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Eleven-year-old, motherless Alice decides she needs a gorgeous role model who does everything right; and when placed in homely Mrs. Plotkins's class she is greatly disappointed until she discovers it's what people are inside that counts.
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4.1 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS OF 2020
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When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints.
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3.8 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2019, 2017, 2014, 2012, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006
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At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches.
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3.8 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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Condemned as "sordid" and "immoral" on its publication in 1899, this story of a woman trapped in her marriage effectively ended Chopin's career but was revived as a proto-feminist classic in the 1970s. What Newsweek calls Chopin's "prophetic psychology" ensures its timeliness today.
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5 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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"Kitty has almost everything a cat could want, everything... except for a phone! To get a device of such magic and beauty, Kitty must do extra chores around the house for three whole months without complaining. Desperate times call for desperate measures, after all! Is Kitty up for such a Herculean task?"--Publisher description.
10. Beloved
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4.1 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 1990-2019
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After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest novel, a dazzling achievement, and the most spellbinding reading experience of the...
11. Bless me, Ultima
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3 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 1990-2019
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Ultima, a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic, comes to Antonio Marez's New Mexico family when he is six years old, and she helps him discover himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past.
12. The bluest eye
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3.8 stars
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TOP 13 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2022; TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2021, 2020, 2014, 2013, 2006
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It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove -- a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others -- who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
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Bone (Jeff Smith) volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2013
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The adventure starts when cousins Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone are run out of Boneville and later get separated and lost in the wilderness, meeting monsters and making friends as they attempt to return home.
Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone are run out of their home, Boneville, and become separated in the wilds, but better fortune begins when the three cousins reunite at a farmstead in a deep forested valley, where Fone meets a...
14. Brave new world
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4.3 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2011, 2010
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Huxley's classic prophetic novel describes the socialized horrors of a futuristic utopia devoid of individual freedom.
First published 70 years ago, the classic, prophetic novel capturing the socialized horrors of a futuristic utopia remarkably explores the now-timely themes of cloning, individual creativity and freedom, and the role of science, technology, and drugs in humankind's future.
15. Burned
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4.7 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.
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3.9 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2009, 2005, 2001
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In an effort to escape the hypocrisies of life at his boarding school, sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield seeks refuge in New York City
Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school.
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3.7 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. And when the state undertakes
...18. The color purple
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4.1 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2009, 2007
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The lives of two sisters--Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a Southern woman married to a man she hates--are revealed in a series of letters exchanged over thirty years.
"Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance, and silence"--Back cover.
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Court of thorns and roses volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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TOP 13 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS OF 2022.
BOOK 1 IN SERIES IS A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES
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Though Feyre now has the powers of the High Fae, her heart remains human, but as she navigates the feared Night Court's dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms--and she might be key to stopping it.
20. Crank
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Crank trilogy volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.9 stars
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TOP 13 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2022; TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST
2010
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Kristina Snow is the perfect daughter, but she meets a boy who introduces her to drugs and becomes a very different person, struggling to control her life and her mind.
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...