Read "Banned" Kids' Books @ LPL!

This list includes some of the children's titles available at Loveland Public Library that are frequently challenged or banned elsewhere according to the American Library Association. Please visit ala.org/advocacy/bbooks for more titles and information on intellectual freedom.
 

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1. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Author:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Average Rating:
4 stars
Formats:
Book, Audio CD, Hoopla eBook, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook
Description:
The tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Dauphin'. Beneath the exploits,...

2. The fighting ground

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Author:
Avi, 1937-
Average Rating:
5 stars
Formats:
Book, Hoopla eBook
Description:
Thirteen-year-old Jonathan goes off to fight in the Revolutionary War and discovers the real war is being fought within himself.

3. My brother Sam is dead

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Author:
Collier, James Lincoln, 1928-
Formats:
Book, Hoopla eBook, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook
Description:
Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.

4. Number the stars

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Author:
Lowry, Lois
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
Formats:
Book, Audio CD, OverDrive eAudiobook
Description:
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.

5. Roll of thunder, hear my cry

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Author:
Taylor, Mildred D.
Series:
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Formats:
Book, Audio CD, Large Print, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook
Description:
A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.