Banned Books

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

Showing 261 - 280 of 374  There are a total of 381 valid entries on the list.
Book cover for "Street magic"
Star rating for Street magic
Series:
Circle opens volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
Former "street rat" Briar Moss must face his past when he discovers a young mage in need of a mentor.
Book cover for "The adventures of Captain Underpants"
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Average Rating:
4.1 stars
Description:
When George and Harold hypnotize their principal into thinking that he is the superhero Captain Underpants, he leads them to the lair of the nefarious Dr. Diaper, where they must defeat his evil robot henchmen.
Book cover for "The adventures of Super Diaper Baby"
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Irrepressible friends George and Harold create a new comic book superhero, Super Diaper Baby.
Book cover for "Captain Underpants and the preposterous plight of the purple potty people"
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Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
When George and Harold use their traveling purple potty to travel to another dimension where the school is nice and the principal, Mr. Krupp, thinks they're funny, they meet up with their evil twins and must face their cleverest enemies ever -- themselves.
Book cover for "Captain Underpants and the terrifying return of Tippy Tinkletrousers"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
When we last saw George and Harold, they were headed to jail for the rest of their lives. What could be worse? How about being pulled from prison by a time-traveling tyrant named Tippy Tinkletrousers?!!? Now the boys are taking a trip back in time to the carefree days of kindergarten, when the scariest thing they had to face was not evil mad scientists or alien cafeteria ladies but a sixth-grade bully named Kipper Krupp, the nephew of their clueless...
Book cover for "The Stonewall Riots"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
This book is about the Stonewall Riots, a series of spontaneous, often violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBTQ+) community in reaction to a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The Riots are attributed as the spark that ignited the LGBTQ+ Movement. The author describes American gay history leading up to the Riots,...
Book cover for "This day in June"
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Description:
"A picture book illustrating a Pride parade. The endmatter serves as a primer on LGBT history and culture and explains the references made in the story"--Provided by publisher.
Book cover for "Like water"
Star rating for Like water
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"When her father is diagnosed with Huntington's disease, eighteen-year-old Vanni abandons her plan to flee her small New Mexico hometown after high school graduation and instead spends the summer keeping herself busy with part-time jobs and boys, but thatchanges after she meets Leigh, whose friendship dares Vanni to ask herself big questions and make new plans." --from cataloger.
Book cover for "Gay & lesbian history for kids"
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Description:
2016 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People List
Lambda Literary Award Finalist
On the Rainbow Book List

Who transformed George Washington's demoralized troops at Valley Forge into a fighting force that defeated an empire? Who cracked Germany's Enigma code and shortened World War II? Who successfully lobbied the US Congress to outlaw child labor? And who organized the 1963 March on Washington? Ls, Gs, Bs,...
Book cover for "In our mothers' house"
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Description:
Three young children experience the joys and challenges of being raised by two mothers.
Book cover for "Queer, there, and everywhere"
Star rating for Queer, there, and everywhere
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
This first-ever LGBTQ history book of its kind for young adults will appeal to fans of fun, empowering pop-culture books like Rad American Women A-Z and Notorious RBG. World history has been made by countless lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals--and you've never heard of many of them. Queer author and activist Sarah Prager delves deep into the lives of 23 people who fought, created, and loved on their own terms. From high-profile...

272. The twin

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After sixteen-year-old Ivy's twin sister, Iris, moves in with her and their father, Ivy learns that Iris is trying to push her out of her own life--and may be responsible for their mother's death.
Book cover for "Gabi, a girl in pieces"
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Average Rating:
3 stars
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, her father's meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity.
Book cover for "The Nowhere Girls"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"Three misfit girls come together to avenge the rape of a girl none of them knew and in the process start a movement that transforms the lives of everyone around them"--
Book cover for "All American boys"
Star rating for All American boys
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
A bag of chips. That’s all sixteen-year-old Rashad is looking for at the corner bodega. What he finds instead is a fist-happy cop, Paul Galluzzo, who mistakes Rashad for a shoplifter, mistakes Rashad’s pleadings that he’s stolen nothing for belligerence, mistakes Rashad’s resistance to leave the bodega as resisting arrest, mistakes Rashad’s every flinch at every punch the cop throws as further resistance and refusal to STAY STILL as ordered....
Book cover for "Long way down"
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Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
As Will, fifteen, sets out to avenge his brother Shawn's fatal shooting, seven ghosts who knew Shawn board the elevator and reveal truths Will needs to know.
Book cover for "Miles Morales Spider-Man"
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"As a student at Brooklyn Visions Academy, Miles Morales knows he's lucky. Not all kids get this opportunity, especially not kids from his neighborhood. With his quirky best friend Ganke, this school year is gonna be a blast. Right? Wrong. Miles has a secret. He's actually Spider-Man. Well not THE Spider-Man but A Spider-Man. Pretty much the only Spider-Man in town now that Peter Parker is gone. Miles is doing his best to save every little old lady...
Book cover for "Stamped"
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Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"A history of racist and antiracist ideas in America, from their roots in Europe until today, adapted from the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning"--
Book cover for "Ghost boys"
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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till.
Book cover for "Three little words"
Star rating for Three little words
Average Rating:
5 stars