Banned Books

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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!

2. 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...

3. Drama

Book cover for "Drama"
Star rating for Drama
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Notes:
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 "Eleanor & Park"
Star rating for Eleanor & Park
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Notes:
TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2016
Description:
"Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits--smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try"--

5. Fade

Book cover for "Fade"
Star rating for Fade
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Series:
Notes:
TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
Description:
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.
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 "Looking for Alaska"
Star rating for Looking for Alaska
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Notes:
TOP 13 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS OF 2022; TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2016, 2015, 2013, 2012
Description:
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.
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 "Out of darkness"
Star rating for Out of darkness
Average Rating:
4 stars
Notes:
TOP 13 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS Of 2022, TOP 10 2021
Description:
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.

10. Speak

Book cover for "Speak"
Star rating for Speak
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Notes:
TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2020
Description:
A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
Book cover for "Thirteen reasons why"
Star rating for Thirteen reasons why
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Notes:
TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2018, 2017, 2012
Description:
When Clay Jenkins receives a box containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends the night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.