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41. The giver
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Giver quartet volume 1.
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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...
42. Glass
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Crank trilogy volume 2.
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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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4.2 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2012
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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...
44. Habibi
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3.2 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2015
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Sprawling across an epic landscape of deserts, harems, and modern industrial clutter, Habibi tells the tale of Dodola and Zam, refugee child slaves bound to each other by chance, by circumstance, and by the love that grows between them. We follow them as their lives unfold together and apart; as they struggle to make a place for themselves in a world (not unlike our own) fueled by fear, lust, and greed; and as they discover the extraordinary depth--and...
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Handmaid's tale volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2019
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"This visionary novel. in which God and Government are joined, and America is run as a Puritanical Theoracy, can be read as a companion volume to Orwell's 1984-its verso, in fact. It gives you the same degree of chill, even as it suggests the varieties of tyrannical experience; it evokes the same kind of horror even as its mordant wit makes you smile." E.L.Doctorow.
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Harry Potter (Original series) volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS OF 2019, 2003, 2002, 2001
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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.
47. The hate u give
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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...
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3 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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When Heather goes to playgroup, at first she feels bad because she has two mothers and no father, but then she learns that there are lots of different kinds of families and the most important thing is that all the people love each other.
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4.2 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2000-2009
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"The unforgettable first novel that established Isabel Allende as one of the world's most gifted and imaginative storytellers. The House of the Spirits brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family. The patriarch Esteban is a volatile, proud man whose voracious pursuit of political power is tempered only by his love for his delicate wife, Clara, a woman with a mystical connection to the spirit world. When their...
51. 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...
52. I am Jazz
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2.5 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015
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From the time she was two years old, Jazz knew that she had a girl's brain in a boy's body. She loved pink and dressing up as a mermaid and didn't feel like herself in boys' clothing. This confused her family, until they took her to a doctor who said that Jazz was transgender and that she was born that way.
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4.3 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2007, 2004, 2002, 2001
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A black woman recalls the anguish of her childhood in Arkansas and her adolescence in northern slums.
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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Three young children experience the joys and challenges of being raised by two mothers.
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2005
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Introduces human sexuality, describes the changes brought about by puberty, and discusses sexual abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS, and pregnancy--and equips young people with the knowledge and vocabulary they need to understand their bodies, relationships, and identities in order to make responsible decisions and stay healthy.
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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...
57. The kite runner
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4.6 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2017, 2014, 2012, 2008
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Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son, in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.
An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present day. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy Afghan youth and the...
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3.3 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2019, 2018
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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 ...
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3.8 stars
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TOP 13 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS Of 2022, TOP 10 2021
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"Mike Muñoz is a young Mexican American not too many years out of high school--and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew. Though he tries time and again to get his foot on the first rung of that ladder to success, he can't seem to get a break. But then things start to change for Mike, and after a raucous, jarring, and challenging trip, he finds he can finally see the future and his place in it."--
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4 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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During the Iraq War of 2003, librarian Alia Muhammad saves thirty thousand new and old books in her Basra library from destruction.