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Book cover for "The adventures of Captain Underpants"
Star rating for The adventures of Captain Underpants
Series:
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Notes:
TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS OF 2018, 2013, 2012, 2005, 2004, 2002
Description:
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!
Book cover for "The adventures of Super Diaper Baby"
Star rating for The adventures of Super Diaper Baby
Series:
Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
Description:
Irrepressible friends George and Harold create a new comic book superhero, Super Diaper Baby.
Book cover for "Bad Kitty gets a phone"
Star rating for Bad Kitty gets a phone
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
Description:
"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.
Book cover for "Bone"
Star rating for Bone
Series:
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Notes:
TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2013
Description:
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...

5. Crank

Book cover for "Crank"
Star rating for Crank
Series:
Crank trilogy volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.9 stars
Notes:
TOP 13 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2022; TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2010
Description:
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...

6. Glass

Book cover for "Glass"
Star rating for Glass
Series:
Crank trilogy volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Notes:
TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
Description:
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.
Book cover for "Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone"
Star rating for Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Notes:
TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS OF 2019, 2003, 2002, 2001
Description:
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.
Book cover for "The Hunger Games"
Star rating for The Hunger Games
Series:
Hunger Games volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Notes:
TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2013, 2011, 2010
Description:
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...
Book cover for "Nasreen's secret school"
Star rating for Nasreen's secret school
Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2015
Description:
Based on a true story. After her parents are taken away by the Taliban, young Nasreen stops speaking. But as she spends time in a secret school, she slowly breaks out of her shell.
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 "Skippyjon Jones"
Star rating for Skippyjon Jones
Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS Of 2018
Description:
Skippyjon Jones, a Siamese kitten with a big imagination, is sent to his room to contemplate what it means to be a cat, but instead embarks on an imaginary adventure in which his Zorro-like alter ego, El Skippito, rescues a group of chihuahuas from a bean-eating bumblebee.
Book cover for "This day in June"
Star rating for This day in June
Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2018
Description:
"A picture book illustrating a Pride parade. The endmatter serves as a primer on LGBT history and culture and explains the references made in the story"--

13. Tricks

Book cover for "Tricks"
Star rating for Tricks
Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
Description:
Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love.