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3.7 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. And when the state undertakes
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22. The color purple
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4.1 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2009, 2007
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The lives of two sisters--Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a Southern woman married to a man she hates--are revealed in a series of letters exchanged over thirty years.
"Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance, and silence"--Back cover.
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Court of thorns and roses volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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TOP 13 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS OF 2022.
BOOK 1 IN SERIES IS A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES
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Though Feyre now has the powers of the High Fae, her heart remains human, but as she navigates the feared Night Court's dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms--and she might be key to stopping it.
24. 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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4 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2015
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Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.
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4.1 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps. Includes entries previously omitted.
An uncut edition of Anne Frank's diary includes entries originally omitted by her father and provides insight into Anne's relationship with her mother.
Compelling and candid, this diary introduced the world to a girl filled...
27. The dirty cowboy
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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Telling his faithful dog to make sure nobody touches his clothes but him, a cowboy jumps into a New Mexico river for a bath, not realizing just how much the scrubbing will change his scent.
28. Drama
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4.3 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014
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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.
29. Draw me a star
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4.5 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2000-2019
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An artist's drawing of a star begins the creation of an entire universe around him as each successive pictured object requests that he draw more.
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2.5 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
31. Eleanor & Park
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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"--
32. Ender's game
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Ender Wiggin volume 1.
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4.6 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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Child hero Ender Wiggin must fight a desperate battle against a deadly alien race if mankind is to survive.
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3.4 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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Oskar Schell, the nine-year-old son of a man killed in the World Trade Center attacks, searches the five boroughs of New York City for a lock that fits a black key his father left behind.
"Oskar Schell is an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father,...
34. 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.
35. The family book
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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.
36. Feed
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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.
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Fifty shades trilogy volume 1.
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2015, 2013, 2012
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When literature student Anastasia Steele is drafted to interview the successful young entrepreneur Christian Grey for her campus magazine, she finds him attractive, enigmatic, and intimidating. Convinced their meeting went badly, she tries to put Grey out of her mind, until he happens to turn up at the out-of-town hardware store where she works part-time.
38. Flamer
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4 stars
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TOP 13 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS OF 2022
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"It's the summer between middle school and high school, and Aiden Navarro is away at camp. Everyone's going through changes--but for Aiden, the stakes feel higher. As he navigates friendships, deals with bullies, and spends time with Elias (a boy he can't stop thinking about), he finds himself on a path of self-discovery and acceptance"--Back cover.
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3.9 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2015
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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.
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4.5 stars
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TOP 13 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS OF 2022; TOP 10 2021
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"Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal...