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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Book cover for "My brother Sam is dead"
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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.
Book cover for "Number the stars"
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4.1 stars
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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.
Book cover for "Prince & knight"
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Series:
Prince & knight volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
A prince and a knight in shining armor find true love in each other's embrace after fighting a dragon together.
Book cover for "Roll of thunder, hear my cry"
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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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.
Book cover for "Scary stories to tell in the dark"
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Stories of ghosts and witches, "jump" stories, scary songs, and modern-day scary stories.
Book cover for "Skippyjon Jones"
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4.5 stars
Description:
Skippyjon Jones is a Siamese cat with an overactive imagination who would rather be El Skippito, his Zorro-like Chihuahua alter ego.
Book cover for "Something happened in our town"
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After discussing the police shooting of a local black man with their families, Emma and Josh know how to treat a new student who looks and speaks differently than his classmates.
Book cover for "Stay out of the basement"
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When Margaret and Casey see their father become weedy while working on his botany experiments, they worry that his plant-testing may not be entirely harmless.
Book cover for "Uncle Bobby's wedding"
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Chloe is jealous and sad when her favorite uncle announces that he will be getting married, but as she gets to know Jamie better and becomes involved in planning the wedding, she discovers that she will always be special to Uncle Bobby--and to Uncle Jamie, too.
Book cover for "Where's Waldo?"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"The reader follows Waldo as he hikes around the world and must try to find him in illustrations of some of the crowded places he visits." --Library of Congress.
Book cover for "The witches"
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4.4 stars
Description:
This is not a fairy tale. This is about real witches. Grandmamma loves to tell about witches. Real witches are the most dangerous of all living creatures on earth. There's nothing they hate so much as children, and they work all kinds of terrifying spells to get rid of them. Her grandson listens closely to Grandmamma's stories—but nothing can prepare him for the day he comes face-to-face with The Grand High Witch herself!
Book cover for "A wrinkle in time"
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Series:
Time quintet volume 1.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.