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1. Drama

Book cover for "Drama"
Star rating for Drama
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014
Description:
Callie rides an emotional roller coaster while serving on the stage crew for a middle school production of Moon over Mississippi as various relationships start and end, and others never quite get going.
Book cover for "Dreaming in Cuban"
Star rating for Dreaming in Cuban
Average Rating:
2.5 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
Book cover for "Fun home"
Star rating for Fun home
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2015
Description:
A memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father--a funeral home director, high school English teacher, and closeted homosexual.
Book cover for "The glass castle"
Star rating for The glass castle
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2012
Description:
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...
Book cover for "The hate u give"
Star rating for The hate u give
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Notes:
TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017
Description:
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...
Book cover for "I know why the caged bird sings"
Star rating for I know why the caged bird sings
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2007, 2004, 2002, 2001
Description:
A black woman recalls the anguish of her childhood in Arkansas and her adolescence in northern slums.
Book cover for "Last week tonight with John Oliver presents a day in the life of Marlon Bundo"
Star rating for Last week tonight with John Oliver presents a day in the life of Marlon Bundo
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Average Rating:
3.3 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2019, 2018
Description:
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 ...
Book cover for "Me and Earl and the dying girl"
Star rating for Me and Earl and the dying girl
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Notes:
TOP 13 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS Of 2022, TOP 10 2021
Description:
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.
Book cover for "Nickel and dimed"
Star rating for Nickel and dimed
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Notes:
TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2010
Description:
"Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job--any job--can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered....
Book cover for "Scary stories to tell in the dark"
Star rating for Scary stories to tell in the dark
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 1990-2019
Description:
Stories of ghosts and witches, "jump" stories, scary songs, and modern-day scary stories.
Book cover for "Stamped"
Star rating for Stamped
Average Rating:
3.4 stars
Notes:
TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS Of 2020
Description:
"A history of racist and antiracist ideas in America, from their roots in Europe until today, adapted from the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning"--