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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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Average Rating:
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.
3. Burned
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Average Rating:
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.
4. 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...
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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2016
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"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"--
6. Feed
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Average Rating:
4 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
7. The giver
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Giver quartet volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 1990-2019
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Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian...
8. 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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Average Rating:
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...
10. 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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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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Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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TOP 13 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS OF 2022; TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2016, 2015, 2013, 2012
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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.
13. Marked
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House of Night. Original series volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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Sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird is Marked as a fledging vampyre and joins the House of Night where she will train to become an adult vampyre.
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Average Rating:
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.
15. Monster
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Average Rating:
4 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
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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.
17. Speak
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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2020
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A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
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Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2018, 2017, 2012
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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.
19. Tricks
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love.
20. Two boys kissing
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Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2018, 2016, 2015
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A chorus of men who died of AIDS observes and yearns to help a cross-section of today's gay teens who navigate new love, long-term relationships, coming out, self-acceptance, and more in a society that has changed in many ways.