Banned Books

2010-2022: American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) and PEN America's Index of School Book Bans
 

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1. Fun home: a family tragicomic

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Author:
Bechdel, Alison, 1960-
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This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian house, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out,...

2. House of night: legacy

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Author:
Cast, P. C.
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3. Class act

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Author:
Craft, Jerry
Series:
New kid (Jerry Craft) volume 2.
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4 stars
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Battle of Books Craft, J.
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New York Times bestselling author Jerry Craft returns with a companion book to New Kid, winner of the 2020 Newbery Medal, the Coretta Scott King Author Award, and the Kirkus Prize. This time, it's Jordan's friend Drew who takes center stage in another laugh-out-loud funny, powerful, and important story about being one of the few kids of color in a prestigious private school.

Eighth grader Drew Ellis is no

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4. New Kid

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Author:
Craft, Jerry
Series:
New kid (Jerry Craft) volume 1.
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Battle of Books Craft, J.
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Winner of the Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Author Award, and Kirkus Prize for Young Readers' Literature!

Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Gene Luen Yang, New Kid is a timely, honest graphic novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low and the struggle to fit in is real, from award-winning author-illustrator Jerry Craft.

Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing

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5. Flamer

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Author:
Curato, Mike
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GRAPHIC Curato, M.
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Award-winning author and artist Mike Curato draws on his own experiences in Flamer, his debut graphic novel, telling a difficult story with humor, compassion, and love.
"This book will save lives." —Jarrett J. Krosoczka, author of National Book Award Finalist Hey, Kiddo
I know I'm not gay. Gay boys like other boys. I hate boys. They're mean, and scary, and they're always destroying something or saying

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6. Anne Frank's diary: the graphic adaptation

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Author:
Frank, Anne, 1929-1945
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4.7 stars
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GRAPHIC Frank, A.
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"The only graphic biography of Anne Frank's diary that has been authorized by the Anne Frank Foundation and that uses text from the diary--it will introduce a new generation of young readers to this classic of Holocaust literature. This adaptation of Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl into a graphic version for a young readership, maintains the integrity and power of the original work. With stunning, expressive illustrations and ample direct quotation...

7. Snow, glass, apples

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Gaiman, Neil
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Gaiman, N.
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"A not-so-evil queen is terrified of her monstrous stepdaughter and determined to repel this creature and save her kingdom from a world where happy endings aren't so happily ever after. From the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, Nebula award-winning, and New York Times bestselling writer Neil Gaiman comes this graphic novel adaptation by Colleen Doran"--

8. No girls allowed: tales of daring women dressed as men for love, freedom and adventure

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Author:
Hughes, Susan, 1960-
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Based on legends, poems, letters and first-hand accounts, these seven biographical tales tell of women who disguised themselves as men. From ancient Egypt to the 19th century, this historically accurate graphic treatment transports readers to bygone eras. For the sake of freedom, ambition, love or adventure, these women risked everything.

9. The color of Earth

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Author:
Kim, Tong-hwa, 1950-
Series:
Color trilogy volume 1.
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Ehwa, looked down upon as the daughter of a widowed tavern manager in Korea, begins to open herself to the possibility of love in her own life after watching her mother fall in love again.

10. The walking dead

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Author:
Kirkman, Robert
Series:
Walking Dead graphic novels volume 20.
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11. Gender Queer: A Memoir

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Author:
Kobabe, Maia
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In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Then e created Gender Queer. 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...

12. Gender Queer: A Memoir

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Kobabe, Maia
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"In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, 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...

13. Hey, kiddo

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Krosoczka, Jarrett
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The powerful, unforgettable graphic memoir from Jarrett Krosoczka, about growing up with a drug-addicted mother, a missing father, and two unforgettably opinionated grandparents. A National Book Award Finalist! In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father...

14. Ruins

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Author:
Kuper, Peter, 1958-
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Kuper, P.
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"Samantha and George are a couple heading towards a sabbatical year in the quaint Mexican town of Oaxaca. For Samantha, it is the opportunity to revisit her past. For George, it is an unsettling step into the unknown. For both of them, it will be a collision course with political and personal events that will alter their paths and the town of Oaxaca forever. In tandem, the remarkable and arduous journey that a monarch butterfly endures on its annual...

15. Snapdragon

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Author:
Leyh, Kat
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4.3 stars
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Kat Leyh's Snapdragon is a magical realist graphic novel about a young girl who befriends her town's witch and discovers the strange magic within herself.
Snap's town had a witch.
At least, that's how the rumor goes. But in reality, Jacks is just a crocks-wearing, internet-savvy old lady who sells roadkill skeletons online—after doing a little ritual to put their spirits to rest. It's creepy, sure, but Snap thinks

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16. V for vendetta

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Author:
Moore, Alan, 1953-
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A powerful story about loss of freedom and individuality, V FOR VENDETTA takes place in atotalitarian England following a devastating war that changed the face of the planet. In a world without political freedom, personal freedom and precious little faith in anything, comes a mysterious man in a white porcelain mask who fights political oppressors through terrorism and seemingly absurd acts in this gripping tale of the blurred lines between ideological

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17. The adventures of Super Diaper Baby: the first epic novel by George Beard and Harold Hutchins

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Author:
Pilkey, Dav, 1966-
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Super diaper baby
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Irrepressible friends George and Harold create a new comic book superhero, Super Diaper Baby.

18. Persepolis: [the story of a childhood]

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Author:
Satrapi, Marjane, 1969-
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741.5944 Satrapi, M.
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"Persepolis paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran and of the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life. Marjane’s child’s-eye view of dethroned emperors, state-sanctioned whippings, and heroes of the revolution allows us to learn as she does the history of this fascinating country and of her own extraordinary family." --Publisher.

19. The deep & dark blue

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Author:
Smith, Niki
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When a political coup causes them to flee, Hawke and Grayson assume new identities as Hanna and Grayce to find the Communion of Blue, an order of magical women, and the twins hatch a plan to avenge their family and retake their home.

20. Maus: a survivor's tale. 1, My father bleeds history

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Spiegelman, Art
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940.5318 Spiegelman, A.
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A biography of the author's father, Vladek Spiegelman, a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor told in a graphic narrative in which Jews are depicted as mice, while Germans are depicted as cats. Maus is the only comic book ever to have won a Pulitzer Prize.