I Read Banned Books

YA novels are made up of books for a wide age range (12-18 years old) and includes a variety of different topics and interests. Not all titles will be appropriate for all readers*
 

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1. Crank

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Author:
Hopkins, Ellen
Series:
Crank trilogy volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.9 stars
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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...

2. Gabi, a girl in pieces

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Author:
Quintero, Isabel
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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Description:
Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, friend Sebastian's coming out, father's meth habit, cravings for food and cute boys, and especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity.

3. Neanderthal opens the door to the universe

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Author:
Norton, Preston, 1985-
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East Regional - Young Adult
YA NORTON
Oberlin Regional - Young Adult has 2
YA NORTON
Description:
Nearly a year after his brother's suicide, sixteen-year-old Cliff "Neanderthal" Hubbard gets recruited to make life better at Happy Valley High by the school's quarterback, who claims he had a vision from God.

4. This is my America

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Author:
Johnson, Kim, 1979-
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Cary Regional - Young Adult
YA JOHNSON
Duraleigh Road - Young Adult
YA JOHNSON
East Regional - Young Adult has 2
YA JOHNSON
Description:
While writing letters to Innocence X, a justice-seeking project, asking them to help her father, an innocent black man on death row, teenaged Tracy takes on another case when her brother is accused of killing his white girlfriend.

5. Tilt

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Author:
Hopkins, Ellen
Average Rating:
5 stars
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5 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Cary Regional - Young Adult
YA HOPKINS
Eva H. Perry Regional - Young Adult
YA HOPKINS
North Regional - Young Adult
YA HOPKINS
Description:
Three teens, connected by their parents' bad choices, tell in their own voices of their lives and loves as Shane finds his first boyfriend, Mikayla discovers that love can be pushed too far, and Harley loses herself in her quest for new experiences.

6. Tricks

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Author:
Hopkins, Ellen
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Description:
Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love.