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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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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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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...
6. 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...
7. Fade
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Wake trilogy (Lisa McMann) volume 2.
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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Using her ability to tap into other people's dreams, eighteen-year-old Janie investigates an alleged sex ring at her high school that involves teachers using the date rape drug on students.
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4 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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Represents a variety of families, some big and some small, some with only one parent and some with two moms or dads, some quiet and some noisy, but all alike in some ways and special no matter what.
9. Glass
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Crank trilogy volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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Kristina is determined to defeat her addiction to crystal methamphetamine in order to keep her newborn child, but when she is unable to manage her use of the drug and the pull becomes too strong, her greatest fears are quickly realized.
Eighteen-year-old Kristina is determined to manage her crystal meth addiction in order to take care of her newborn son, but when the pull of the drug becomes too strong, her greatest fears are quickly realized.
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Harry Potter (Original series) volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS OF 2019, 2003, 2002, 2001
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Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches.
11. The hate u give
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4.6 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017
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After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.
"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal...
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3 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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When Heather goes to playgroup, at first she feels bad because she has two mothers and no father, but then she learns that there are lots of different kinds of families and the most important thing is that all the people love each other.
13. The Hunger Games
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Hunger Games volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2013, 2011, 2010
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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.
"In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol...
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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Three young children experience the joys and challenges of being raised by two mothers.
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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The wedding festivities of Scandinavian Princess Sophia are thrown into turmoil by an illness plaguing the royal family and a courtier's plot that places a seamstress and a royal nursemaid at the center of an epic power struggle.
"On the eve of Princess Sophia's wedding, a shiver of darkness creeps through the palace halls. A mysterious illness plagues the royal family, threatening the lives of the throne's heirs; a courtier's wolfish hunger for...
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3.3 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2019, 2018
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Meet Marlon Bundo, a lonely bunny who lives at the Naval Observatory with his Grandpa, the Vice President of the United States. But on this Very Special Day, Marlon's life is about to change forever ...
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4.3 stars
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TOP 13 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS Of 2022, TOP 10 2021
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Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
18. Melissa
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3.3 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS Of 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016
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"When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl. George thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their class play is going to be Charlotte's Web. George really, really, REALLY wants to play Charlotte. But the teacher says she can't even try out for the part . . . because she's a boy. With the help of her best friend, Kelly, George comes up with a...
19. Out of darkness
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Average Rating:
4 stars
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TOP 13 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS Of 2022, TOP 10 2021
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Loosely based on a school explosion that took place in New London, Texas in 1937, this is the story of two teenagers: Naomi, who is Mexican, and Wash, who is black, and their dealings with race, segregation, love, and the forces that destroy people.
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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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TOP 13 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS OF 2022; TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED 2014, 2013, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2004
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Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it, Charlie is navigating through the strange worlds of love, drugs, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," and dealing with the loss of a good friend and his favorite aunt.