Burned (Burned #1) by Ellen Hopkins

Burned is much like all of Ellen Hopkin's books: dark, prose, challenging. We follow Pattyn, teenager growing up in a Mormon household in Utah with her six sisters, emotionally absent mother, and abusive alcoholic father.

Early in the book, we learn Pattyn is challenging her beliefs and the Mormon church, questioning her place in the world and how much control she has over her own body and mind. She eventually starts dating a boy at school after he discovers her passion for using the Utah dessert for target practice. Pattyn starts to question and challenge her parents' authority by lying, talking back, and eventually drinking and contemplating having sex with her boyfriend, which ended with her father walking in on her drunk with loose pants.

After discovering her mother is pregnant with a seventh child, this time a boy, Pattyn's father sends her off to her Aunt Jeanette's farm where Pattyn learns what it feels like to be liked and loved unconditionally.

Falling in love, learning what a good physically exhausting work day feels like, and figuring out personal beliefs, Pattyn doesn't want to go back to Utah to finish senior year of school, but she must, and then can go wherever the wind brings her, which is into the arms of Ethan, her light in a dark place.

Upon return home, she finds life had shifted, but not for the better. Abuse has shifted from her mother to her favourite sister, the elders of The Church pressure her and her family, and incident after deadly incident, Pattyn vows to take the lives of those who caused her the hell she lives on earth.

Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher- ALA Banned and Challenged Book

I had read a Chris Crutcher book whist in high school and forgot how much I love his style of writing and Whale Talk did not disappoint.

While trying to keep a friend from being bullied, and to prove a point in a small city's high school, The Tao Jones (pronounced The Dow Jones), challenges himself and a handful of other misfits from the school to start a swimming team to earn, ultimately, letters.

TJ prides himself on being one of the only people of colour in his high school and is often verbally assaulted for being part African-America, part Caucasian, and part Japanese. He also prides himself on being tough to get onto sports teams. Thanks to a past of physical and emotional abuse, TJ's anger management issues deter him from teaming up with any athletic club at school, to much annoyance of the coaches. He changes his mind shortly after witnessing the school bully picking on a mentally handicapped student who wears his deceased brother's letterman jacket, stating it is school policy that only people who have earned their letters be allowed to wear the jackets.

TJ bands together a fat kid, a one-legged jock, a motormouth, a mentally different friend, and himself to form the school's first swim team in years. Together, the team not only challenge themselves physically, but also emotionally when they boys create an almost awkward friendship with each other and their obscure coaches, showing that, no matter the background, anyone can be a letterman.

Below are reasons why this book has been challenged over and over. Knowing where this fictional town is located in Washington State, I have no doubts that the raciest remarks and abuse coul dbe every-day for a person of colour. The language in the book, I feel, is normal teenager language when adults are not around to hear. I don't agree with the pulling of the books for these reasons because Whale Talk is such a good book for reluctant or slow readers. It also teaches teens how to stand up for others and how to make lasting friendships.

I would recommend this book to reluctant and low-level readers and any reader who loves a good sports book.


2004-2005
Whale Talk. Greenwillow. Removed from all
five Limestone County, Ala. high school libraries (2005)
because of the book’s use of profanity. Removed from the
suggested reading list for a pilot English–literature curriculum
by the superintendent of the South Carolina Board of
Education (2005). Challenged at the Grand Ledge,


2005-2006
Whale Talk. Greenwillow.
Removed from all five Limestone County,
Ala. high school libraries (2005) because of the
book’s use of profanity. Removed from the suggested
reading list for a pilot English-literature
curriculum by the superintendent of the South
Carolina Board of Education (2005). Challenged
at the Grand Ledge, Mich. High School
(2005). Source:


2006-2007
Challenged at theMissouri Valley, Iowa High School (2007) because the book uses racial slurs and profanity


2007-2008
Challenged
at the Missouri Valley, Iowa High School (2007) because
the book uses racial slurs and profanity. Challenged as an
optional reading in a bullying unit at the Lake Oswego,
Oreg. Junior High School (2007) because the novel is
"peppered with profanities, ranging from derogatory slang
terms to sexual encounters and violence." Students are
given a list of book summaries and a letter to take to their
parents. Four of the eight optional books offered are
labeled as having "mature content/language." Source: May
2007, p. 98; July 2007, p. 149.
de Haan, Linda, and Stern Nijland.

Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

I tried to listen to Elsewhere while doing my work and, though I liked the concept of the book, I really didn't care for the audio version. The person reading, Cassandra Morris, chose a really obnoxious voice to read in for the character.

Lizzy is self-centered, pushy, and overall a little shit of a teenager. After waking aboard a ship to Elsewhere, Lizzy learns that she died in a car accident and is on her way to the afterlife.

I loved the idea of a huge ship bringing people to Elsewhere and the concept of decreasing in age until the day one became a week old and was then reincarnated into a new life on Earth. LOVED the concept. The character, I couldn't get into. I may try to read it, but I don't recommend the audio.

I didn't finish this book. I got about a quarter into it and couldn't handle the audio and main character any longer.

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow- ALA Banned and Challenged Book

1984 meets "Red Dawn" and "War Games." 

I am glad that I listened to this as a book on tape because I don't believe that I would be able to get through all the technological information thrown at me through the book.

I liked where this idea could have gone: techie kids playing a find-and-seek game using wifi connections in the city when terrorists blow up part of the city. Panic starts. Marcus and his friends playing the game were black bagged and picked up by Homeland Security. After being released with all but one of his friends, Marcus goes on a viral vendetta against his torturers. 

I don't understand tech very well, so, again, I am glad that I listened to this novel rather than read it physically, and feel that I would have shut the covers shortly into the book.

I feel that I don't get any closure to the bombing terrorism that is happening in the city while Homeland Security is busy trying to capture these techie kids. There are constant reminders that "we're fighting terrorists from Al Qaeda" but never do we see what is happening with these agendas.

Regarding why the book was challenged and removed, I feel that is little compared to the other themes in the book: torture and false imprisonment of teenagers. I don't understand why hacking is the bigger issue instead of the TORTURE and falsifying information in the name of Homeland Security.

This book was on the most current banned and challenged list. Little Brother was removed as the approved reading assignment in the Pensacola, Fla. (2014), One School/One Book summer reading program by a high school principal because it promoted hacker culture. The principal “made it clear that the book was being challenged because of its politics and its content.” In response Doctorow and his publisher sent 200 complimentary copies of the book directly to students at the school. 

I would recommend this to teenagers and people into tech. It was good.

Deenie by Judy Blume- ALA Banned and Challenged Book

Deenie by Judy Blume was cute and quick.

Deenie, who's mother wants nothing but to have her daughter on a modeling contract, learns that she has scoliosis after trying out for the cheer leading team at school. Deenie and her family struggle to come to terms that the youngest of the household is required to wear a metallic contraption for four years.

In the mean time, Deenie learns that she was selfish and mean when it came to differences in people, and learns how to accept people who are different, including herself.

It's a good book to present to middle school age groups regarding social interactions, sexuality, and unexpected changes in life.

The subject matter that the parent challenged regarding masturbation was tasteful. Due to the book being based in the 1970's, it makes sense that Deenie doesn't understand that she is masturbating and that it feels good and why it feels good. She speaks about her "special place" and touching it in very appropriate situations (alone in the bathtub and in bed.) A FLASH-like (Family Living and Sexual Health) class in the book brings up the word "masturbation" and Deenie then realizes what she is doing and that it is natural and safe.

Would reccomend.

Challenged by a parent in the Spring Hill Elementary School District in Hernando
County, Fla. (2003) due to passages that talk frankly about masturbation. The board decided to retain the title, but require students to have written parental permission to access the novel.

Banned Book Week 2015 September 27- October 3

It's coming up on that time of year again! Banned Books Week is almost upon us. Below is a link to this year's list as well as the ALA site for banned and challenged books information.

Which book or books will you read?


This Year's Banned/Challenged Books

ALA Banned Books Week Site

Identical by Ellen Hopkins- ALA Banned and Challenged Book

Identical by Ellen Hopkins has been the first of her books that I read, though Crank has lived on my shelf for many years, and it blew me away.

I instantly fell in love with how Hopkins uses the full page to paint pictures with words, literally and figuratively. She uses hints in the setup of the page to warn the reader that we will be transitioning from Raeanne to Kaeleigh, such as creating a sentence out of words strategically placed to create another sentence to push readers that much further into their world.

I Have Got to Learn

to say no, and not only say

it, but mean it. In some

situations, not always

the right ones, I know,

                                      I'm strong.

Really strong. Tough,

even. I guess, in a very odd

way, I'm something of

                                       a survivor.

But there are times when,

much as I want to assert

myself, know it's the right

thing to do,

                                I can't

find the inner fortitude

to follow through with a simple

two-letter word. NO. One of

the first words babies can

                                        understand,

one of the first they learn

to repeat. No. No, Mick, I won't

let you treat me with disrespect. No,

Mick, and I don't have to explain

                                  why I

won't let you touch me this time.

Okay, so maybe I'm a little

confused. Does being in control

mean I have to cave in, have to

                                        crumble?

After a car accident involving the four members of the Gardella family, the twins' mother folds in on herself, placing family to the side and running for congress. Their father falls further and further into alcoholism and one day decides that Kaeleigh will be his surrogate wife in matters of the bedroom. Longing for Daddy's love, Raeanne purges to get the body her twin has, runs to eccentric men and loses herself in a drug-induced dance. Kaeleigh just wants love. More specifically, love from her best friend and hopeful partner, Ian.

The further into hell the sisters fall, the more readers learn about their personal struggles, and, with the help of a few strong people in her life, Kaeleigh digs up information about the crash that changes her life forever.

I recommend this book so much. I would say for mature and well-read readers due to the flow of the book and content.

Identical was challenged in Middletown, Delaware (2014) school district by a parent stating that the material was not age appropriate for students.

Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler- ALA Banned and Challenged Book

A year after the death of best friend, and possibly new lover, Matt, Anna ventures to Zanzibar with Frankie and her parents for their annual family holiday. The ghost of Matt follows them everywhere: the upstairs room where Matt used to sleep for the annual pilgrimage, sea glass that hides in sand, mementos hidden in closets.

It is the summer of healing, the summer of friendship, and the summer of 20 boys to lose oneself in.

At least, that is how I would have liked to have felt about this book. Twenty Boy Summer feels and reads like a first book that wasn't quite finished with the editing process. I can see where Sarah Ockler wanted to share a long-time friendship between siblings Matt and Frankie with their neighbour Anna. Anna and Matt just started feeling out what they mean to one another, keeping it form Frankie, hoping to break their possible coupling as painless as possible. The week before Matt is to approach his sister, he dies, leaving Anna to feel she needs to hold onto him and his secret, keeping Frankie in the dark to help her cope with the loss of her brother.

A year goes by, Frankie glams up, makes out with random boys at parties, and forces her best friend into the ultimatum that she WILL lose her virginity (also called Anna's Albatross.) At times, I feel that Anna is a well-rounded teenager pining over a romance she feels she missed out on. Other times, I feel she is just a dumb kid that can't say "no" to a friend that uses and belittles her.

Frankie is another story. She lies, cheats, steals, and belittles. I couldn't believe her character, her hurt or the way her family unit worked.

I felt this book was a bore. I also felt that the characters were flat and untrustworthy. I didn't know how one or the other were, neither were solid. The secondary character, Sam, was the only character I felt was an actual teenager that I could run into on the street.

I think Ockler missed out on trying to show how two best friends get over the grief of losing a loved one.

I would recommend to a low-level reluctant reader. 

Challenged in Missouri because the book is "soft-pornography" and "glorifies drinking, cursing, and premarital sex" in 2010.

One Man Guy by Michael Barakiva

This is a fun, quick, fluffy book. Armenian-raised Alek is a quirky kid who is trying to fit in with his family, while at the same time, do what he wants to do and discover himself. Forced into summer school while his family goes on a joint family holiday, Alek befriends Ethan, who shows him the fun they can have in New York City, and awakens the teen passion of new love.

Would recommend. Fun read.

Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld- ALA Banned and Challenged Book

I really, really tried with this book. Usually I love coming of age literature of all sorts, but I couldn’t get into Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld. I downloaded this as an E-Book with no idea what it was about, other than it was on my Banned Books list.

Lee, the main protagonist, is oddly developed. I couldn’t make rhyme nor reason of her interactions with herself and the world around her. I first thought she was depressed and was in the process of finding herself at the boarding school she attends. The more I read, theme I felt she was just a flat character that I really couldn’t care less about. The author chose some interesting language, as well, which made me doubt them being from the country of which the protagonist resides. (Example: four of six regarding time of arrival. What does that even mean?)

The book itself is 1214 pages long, which I didn’t realize due to downloading the book. I have read up until page 354, or the E-Book equivalent to Chapter 4, and feel that I hadn’t grasped the characters. I felt they were air-headed and self-involved.  I had no empathy or sympathy, just immense apathy.

Prep was challenged in 2007-2008 in a California high school for being “pornographic.” And in 2012-2013 was removed from a  9th grade reading list due to “mature themes” and placed on the 12th grade reading list.

In my 354 pages, I did not find anything to be “pornographic” or more mature than what 9th graders already talk about in school hallways. Lee herself is a 9th grader  in the start of the novel and follows, assuming, through her final year at her boarding school Alt. Jests regarding blow jobs and breast fondling were fleeting and insignificant to the overall story.

I may try again with this book, but as of right now, I don’t have any emotional attachment to it.

Pre-Goal Reads

I grew up reading mountains of books. My sister and I would bring a milk crate to the library each week to refill. We became immensely close to the children’s librarian, who would set aside titles that she felt either my sister or I would enjoy. We sometimes were the first people to read new works to the system.

While creating the list of banned books, I was surprised at how many I had already read, and further surprised as to why these titles were challenged or removed from reading lists or school and public libraries.

The following titles are all on the ALA Banned and Challenged Book list and were read prior to my personal challenge. I don’t think that I will make any reviews for them at the time. I do believe that I will re-read them when I am at a lull or need something that I won’t have to think very hard about since I had already consumed their words.

Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence- Bauer, Marion

America– Frank, E. R.

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress- Sijie, Dai

Blankets- Thomson, Craig

A Child Called It- Pelzer, Dave

Doing It- Burgess, Melvin

Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphry- Haddix, Margaret

Fahrenheit 451- Bradbury, Ray

The Fault in Our Stars- Green, John

Feed- Anderson, M. T.

Fifty Shades of Grey- James, E. L.

Geography Club- Hartinger, Brent

Give a Boy a Gun- Strasser, Todd

The Glass Castle: A Memoir- Walls, Jeannette

Harry Potter series- Rowling, J. K.

The Hunger Games trilogy- Collins, Suzanne

It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health- Harris, Robbie

Life Is Funny- Frank, E. R.

Looking For Alaska- Green John

Mick Hart Was Here- Park, Barbara

Naked- Sedaris, David

The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Chobsky, Stephen

Rainbow Boys trilogy- Sanchez, Alex

Shattering Glass- Giles, Gale

Slaughterhouse-Five- Vonnegut, Kurt

Speak- Anderson, Laurie Halse

Stuck in Neutral- Trueman, Terry

To Kill a Mockingbird- Lee, Harper

Twilight- Myer, Stephenie

Twisted- Anderson, Laurie Halse

Two Boys Kissing- Levithan, David

When Jeff Comes Home- Atkins, Catherine

Banned Book 2004-2015

Since I was a little girl, I ate my way through the library; a regular bookworm. A few months ago, I was playing around the ALA (American Library Association)website and came across a great resource for Banned Book Week (Link Here.)

There was not just one long list that collected all the challenged and banned book, but multiple PDFs with detailed information on where, when and why the books were banned or challenged. 

I am on the computer most of the day for work, and during quieter periods, I went through all the PDFs and made a list of my own from 2004 to present, which I have placed below.

To challenge myself, and to support the authors that are being challenged, I have decided to read all the books on the banned book list. I realize that not all titles will be to my liking, so I have placed some rules that I feel will be okay for my challenge:

1. If I get at least half-way through the book and still am not feeling the story, I can check it off as "read."

2. If I complete the first, full book of a series and do not enjoy it, I can check off the rest of the series.

3. If the challenged title is a story from a compilation, just the story is okay.

Pretty much, that is what I have come up with. I can always add more...

And that is that for the time being. I will update on books that I have read on and off the list. I am trying to figure out how I am going to differentiate the titles (from the banned list vs just my own reading list.) This, too, will come in time.

Banned Books 2004-2005

1.       Bless Me, Ultima- Anaya, Rudolfo

2.       The Devil’s Storybook- Babbitt, Natalie

3.       Deenie- Blume, Judy

4.       My Father’s Scar- Cart, Michael

5.       Dance on My Grave- Chambers, Aidan

6.       The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Chobsky, Stephen

7.       Horse- Clutton-Brock, Juliet

8.       I Am the Cheese- Cormier, Robert

9.       Am I Blue?- Coville, Bruce

10.   Stuck Rubber Baby- Cruse, Howard

11.   “In the Time I Get” Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories- Crutcher, Chris

12.   Whale Talk- Crutcher, Chris

13.   Kirk! Krak!- Danticat, Edwidge

14.   My Brother Has AIDS- Davis, Deborah

15.   King & King- de Haan, Linda and Stern Nijland

16.   Deal with It! A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain, and Life As a Gurl- Drill, Esther

17.   Daughters of Eve- Duncan, Lois

18.   Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies- Esquivel, Laura

19.   Eight Seconds- Ferris, Jean

20.   The Sissy Duckling- Fierstein, Harvey

21.   The Slave Dancer- Fox, Paula

22.   Life Is Funny- Frank, E. R.

23.   Marijuana Grower’s Guide- Frank, Mel and Ed Rosenthal

24.   My Heartbeat- Freymann-Weyr, Garret

25.   Good Moon Rising- Garden, Nancy

26.   Holly’s Secret- Garden, Nancy

27.   The Drowning of Stephan Jones- Greene, Bette

28.   Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey- Haddix, Margaret Peterson

29.   A Raisin in the Sun- Hansberry, Lorraine

30.   It’s Perfectly Normal: A Book about Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health- Harris, Robie H.

31.   Hey Dollface- Hatrzig, Deborah

32.   Eat Me- Jaivin, Linda

33.   How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale- Jameson, Jenna and Neil Strauss

34.   Pinkerton, Behave!- Kellogg, Steven

35.   Walter the Farting Dog- Kotzwinkle, William and Glenn Murray

36.   What I Know Now- Larson, Rodger

37.   To Kill a Mockingbird- Lee, Harper

38.   One Fat Summer- Lipsyte, Robert

39.   Anastasia Again!- Lowry, Lois

40.   The Giver- Lowry, Lois

41.   Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions- Mezrich, Ben

42.   The Bluest Eye- Morrison, Toni

43.   Alice on the Outside- Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds

44.   Alice the Brave- Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds

45.   Mick Harte Was Here- Park, Barbara

46.   On the Bright Side, I’m Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God: Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson- Rennison, Louise

47.   Always Running- Rodriguez, Luis J.

48.   Catcher in the Rye- Salinger, D.J.

49.   Rainbow Boys- Sanchez, Alex

50.   Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress- Sijie, Dai

51.   The Joy of Gay Sex- Silberstein, Charles, and Edmund White.

52.   What My Mother Doesn’t Know- Sones, Sonya

53.   Of Mice and Men- Steinbeck, John

54.   America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction- Stewart, John, Ben Karlin, and David Javerbaum

55.   The Joy Luck Club- Tan, Amy

56.   The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Twain, Mark

57.   Peter- Walker, Kate

58.   Brideshead Revisited- Waugh, Evelyn

Banned Books 2005-2006

1.       I know Why the Caged Bird Sings- Angelou, Maya

2.       When Jeff Comes Home- Atkins, Catherine

3.       The Handmaid’s Tale- Atwood, Margaret

4.       Forever- Blume, Judy

5.       Doing It- Burgess, Melvin

6.       The Homo Handbook: Getting in Touch with Your Inner Homo- Carter, Judy

7.       The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Chbosky, Stephen

8.       We All Fall Down- Cormier, Robert

9.       Whale Talk- Crutcher, Chris

10.   The Teenage Guy’s Survival Guide- Daldry, Jeremy

11.   The Other Woman- Dickey, Eric Jerome

12.   Deal With It! A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain, and Life As a Gurl- Drill, Esther

13.   Born Too Short: The Confession of an Eighth-Grade Basket Case- Elish, Dan

14.   A Time To Kill- Grisham, John

15.   The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time- Haddon, Mark

16.   It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing up, Sex, and Sexual Health- Harris, Robie

17.   It’s So Amazing!: A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families- Harris, Robie

18.   Geography Club- Hartinger, Brent

19.   GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Queer and Questioning Teens- Hugel, Kelly

20.   The Guy Book: An Owner’s Manual- Jukes, Mavis

21.   Girl, Interrupted- Kaysen, Susanna

22.   To Kill a Mockingbird- Lee, Harper

23.   The Giver- Lowry, Lois

24.   The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things- Mackler, Carolyn

25.   The Bluest Eye- Morrison, Toni

26.   Fallen Angels- Myers, Walter Dean

27.   Lolita- Nabokov, Vladimir

28.   Alice on the Outside- Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds

29.   Choke: A Novel- Palahniuk, Chuck

30.   Leaving Disneyland- Parsons, Alexander

31.   Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story- Peters, Lisa Westberg

32.   Brokeback Mountain- Proulx, Annie

33.   The Buffalo Tree- Rapp, Adam

34.   Detour For Emmy- Reynolds, Marilyn

35.   And Tango Makes Three- Richardson, Justin and Peter Parnell

36.   Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince- Rowling, J.K.

37.   Rainbow Boys- Sanchez, Alex

38.   Cracking India- Sidhwa, Bapsi

39.   It Stops With Me: Memoir of a Canuck Girl- Touchette, Charleen

40.   Whistle Me Home- Wersba, Barbara

41.   This Boy’s Life: A Memoir- Wolff, Tobias

Banned Books 2006-2007

1.       How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents- Alvarez, Julia

2.       Cuban Kids- Ancona, George

3.       I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings- Angelou, Maya

4.       The Handmaid’s Tale- Atwood, Margaret

5.       The Notebook Girls- Baskin, Julia, Lindsey Newman, Sophie Pollitt-Cohen, and Courtney Toombs

6.       Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic- Bechdel, Alison

7.       Attack of the Mutant Underwear- Birdseye, Tom

8.       Fahrenheit 451- Bradbury, Ray

9.       The Veldt- Bradbury, Ray

10.   The DaVinci Code- Brown, Dan

11.   Running with Scissors- Burroughs, Augusten

12.   The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Chbosky, Stephen

13.   Girl with a Pearl Earring- Chevalier, Tracy

14.   Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media- Chomsky, Noam, and Edward S Herman

15.   The Awakening- Chopin, Kate

16.   Voyage of the Basset- Christensen, James C., Renwick St. James and Alan Dean Foster

17.   The Chocolate War- Cormier, Robert

18.   Whale Talk- Crutcher, Chris

19.   King & King- de Haan, Linda and Stern Nijland

20.   Romiette and Julio- Draper, Sharon M., and Adam Lowenbein

21.   The Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop & Poetry of a New Generation- Eleveld, Mark, ed.

22.   By Brother’s Hero- Fogelin, Adrian

23.   America- Frank, E. R.

24.   The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them- Freedom Writers

25.   The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman- Gaines, Ernest J.

26.   Fat Kid Rules the World- Going, K.L.

27.   Cuba- Gordon, Sharon

28.   Manga: 60 Years Japanese Comics- Gravett, Paul

29.   Real Girl/Real World: Tools for Finding Your True Self- Gray, Heather M., and Samantha Philips

30.   Dictionary of Slang- Green, Jonathon, comp.

31.   The Blind Owl- Hedayat, Sadegh

32.   What’s Eating Gilbert Grape- Hedges, Peter

33.   The Guy Book: An Owner’s Manual- Jukes, Mavis

34.   Abduction!- Kehret, Peg

35.   100 Greatest Tyrants- Langley, Andrew

36.   A Fisherman of the Inland Sea- LeGuin, Ursula

37.   Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything- Levitt, Steven, and Stephen J. Dubner

38.   The Giver- Lowry, Lois

39.   Vegan Virgin Valentine- Mackler, Carolyn

40.   Kaffir Boy- Mathabane, Mark

41.   Alice in Jeopardy- McBain, Ed

42.   Gilgamesh: A New English Version- Mitchell, Stephen

43.   Baseball Saved Us- Mochizuki, Ken

44.   ttyl Morgan, Melissa

45.   Beloved- Morrison, Toni

46.   The Bluest Eye- Morrison, Toni

47.   Fallen Angels- Myers, Walter Dean

48.   Reluctantly Alice- Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds

49.   The Things They Carried- O’Brien, Tim

50.   I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild’s Pocket Book- Opie, Iona Archibald and Peter Opie, eds

51.   Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky, Peeky Spying- Park, Barbara

52.   The Learning Tree- Parks, Gordon

53.   Zero to Sixty- The Motorcycle Journey of a Lifetime- Paulson, Gary

54.   Our Family  Tree: An Evolution Story- Peters, Lisa Westberg

55.   The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World- Pollan, Michael

56.   And Tango Makes Three- Richardson, Justin, and Peter Parnell

57.   Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets- Rowling, J.K.

58.   Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire- Rowling, J.K.

59.   Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince- Rowling, J.K.

60.   Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban- Rowling, J.K.

61.   Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone- Rowling, J.K.

62.   Lily’s Ghosts- Ruby, Laura

63.   Rainbow Boys- Sanchez, Alex

64.   Vamos a Cuba (A Visit to Cuba)- Schreier, Alta

65.   More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark- Schwartz, Alvin

66.   The Lovely Bones- Sebold, Alice

67.   In the Night Kitchen- Sendak, Maurice

68.   The Bastard of Istanbul- Shafak, Elif

69.   The Joy of Gay Sex- Silberstein, Charles, and Edmund White

70.   Wizardology: The Book of the Secrets of Merlin- Steer, Dugald

71.   Of Mice and Men- Steinbeck, John

72.   Blankets- Thompson, Craig

73.   The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Twain, Mark

74.   Slaughterhouse-Five- Vonnegut, Kurt

75.   So Far from the Bamboo Grove- Watkins, Yoko Kawashima

76.   Sex Kittens and Horn Dawgs Fall in Love- Wood, Maryrose

77.   Black Boy- Wright, Richard

Banned Books 2007-2008

1.       The Shell Lady’s Daughter- Adler, C.S.

2.       Where Willy Went- Allan, Nicholas

3.       How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents- Alvarez, Julia

4.       I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings- Angelou, Maya

5.       Go Ask Alice- Anonymous

6.       Alt Ed- Atkins, Catherine

7.       The Making of Dr. Truelove- Barnes, Derrick

8.       Child of the Dark Prophecy- Baron, T.A.

9.       Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic- Bechdel, Alison

10.   The Literary Experience- Beiderwell, Bruce, and Jeffry M Wheeler, eds

11.   Red Sky at Morning- Bradford, Richard

12.   Running with Scissors- Burroughs, Augusten

13.   The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Chbosky, Stephen

14.   The Supernaturalist-  Colfer, Eoin

15.   The New Joy of Sex- Comfort, Alex

16.   Beach Music- Conroy, Pat

17.   The Price of Tides- Conroy, Pat

18.   The Chocolate War- Cormier, Robert

19.   Whale Talk- Crutcher, Chris

20.   King & King- de Haan, Linda, and Stern Nijland

21.   Just Listen- Dessen, Sarah

22.   Dancing at the Rascal Fair- Doig, Ivan

23.   America- Frank, E.R.

24.   Whispers from the Dead- Nixon, Joan Lowery

25.   Happy Endings: The Tales of a Meaty-Breasted Zilch- Norton, Jim

26.   Sexy- Oats, Joyce Carol

27.   I saw Esau: The Schoolchild’s Pocket Book- Opie, Iona Archibald, and Peter Opie

28.   Cradle and All: A Novel- Patterson, James

29.   The Tenth Circle- Picoult, Jodi

30.   The Golden Compass- Pullman, Philip

31.   And Tango Makes Three- Richardson, Justin and Peter Parnell

32.   Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets- Rowling, J.K.

33.   Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire- Rowling, J.K.

34.   Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince- Rowling, J.K.

35.   Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban- Rowling, J.K.

36.   Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone- Rowling, J.K.

37.   Rainbow Boys- Sanchez, Alex

38.   Open Minds to Equality: A Sourcebook of Learning, Activities to Affirm Diversity and Promote Equity- Schniedewind, Nancy

39.   Vamos a Cuba (A Visit to Cuba)- Schreier, Alta

40.   The Lovely Bones- Sebold, Alice

41.   The Joy of Gay Sex- Silverstrin, Charles, and Edmund White

42.   Prep: A Novel- Sittenfeld, Curtis

43.   The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them- Freedom Writers

44.   Shattering Glass- Giles, Gail

45.   Fat Kid Rules the World- Going, K.L.

46.   Cuba- Gordon, Sharon

47.   Looking for Alaska- Green, John

48.   The Starplace- Grove, Vicki

49.   Snow Falling on Cedars- Guterson, David

50.   It’s Perfectly Normal: A Book about Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health- Harris, Robie

51.   The Kite Runner- Hosseini, Khaled

52.   Totally Joe- Howe, James

53.   Animal Dreams- Kingsolver, Barbara

54.   The Brimstone Journals- Koertge, Ronald

55.   Jake Reinvented- Korman, Gordon

56.   To Kill a Mockingbird- Lee, Harper

57.   The Giver- Lowry, Lois

58.   Vegan Virgin Valentine- Mackler, Carolyn

59.   Kaffir Boy- Mathabane, Mark

60.   Child of God- McCarthy, Cormac

61.   When I was a Loser: True Stories of (Barely) Surviving High School by Today’s Top Writers- McNally, John

62.   Tripping over the Lunch Lady and Other Short Stories- Mercado, Nancy

63.   Beloved- Morrison, Toni

64.   The Bluest Eye- Morrison, Toni

65.   Fallen Angels- Myers, Walter Dean

66.   ttyl- Myracle, Lauren

67.   Alice on Her Way- Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds

68.   The Whole Lesbian Sex Book- Newman, Felice

69.   Fair and Tender Ladies- Smith, Lee

70.   What My Mother Doesn’t Know- Sones, Sonya

71.   Wizardology: The Book of the Secrets of Merlin- Steer, Dugald

72.   Of Mice and Men- Steinbeck, John

73.   Give a Boy a Gun- Strasser, Todd

74.   The Golem’s Eye- Stroud, Jonathan

75.   Ptolemy’s Gate- Stroud, Jonathan

76.   The Amulet of Samarkand- Stroud, Jonathan

77.   The Land- Taylor, Mildred

78.   Blankets- Thompson, Craig

79.   The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Twain, Mark

80.   Slaughterhouse-Five- Vonnegut, Kurt

81.   Fools Crow- Welch, James

82.   Finding Laura Buggs- West, Stanley Gordon

83.   Until They Bring the Streetcars Back- West, Stanley Gordon

84.   Sandpiper- Wittlinger, Ellen

85.   Black Boy-  Wright, Richard

Banned Books 2008-2009

1.       The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian- Alexie, Sherman

2.       Bless Me, Ultima- Anaya, Rudolfo

3.       Go Ask Alice- Anonymous

4.       The Fighting Ground- Avi

5.       Sex, Puberty, and All That Stuff: A Guide to Growing Up- Bailey, Jacquie, and Jan McCafferty

6.       The Great Tree of Avalon: Child of the Dark Prophecy- Barron, T.A.

7.       Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story- Berendt, John

8.       Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War- Bowden, Mark

9.       Uncle Bobby’s Wedding- Brannen, Sarah

10.   The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Chobsky, Stephen

11.   The Supernaturalist- Colfer, Eoin

12.   My Brother Sam Is Dead- Collier, James, and Christopher Collier

13.   The Joy of Sex- Comfort, Alex

14.   The New Joy of Sex- Comfort, Alex

15.   Night Talk- Cox, Elizabeth

16.   Chinese Handcuffs- Crutcher, Chris

17.   King & King- de Haan, Linda, and Stern Nijland

18.   Deal With It! A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain, and Life as a gURL- Drill, Esther

19.   Sex for Busy People: The Art of the Quickie for Lovers on the Go- Dubberley, Emily

20.   Pillars of the Earth- Follett, Ken

21.   Grendel- Gardner, John

22.   Looking for Alaska- Green, John

23.   The Starplace- Grove, Vicki

24.   The Lesbian Kama Sutra- Harding, Kat

25.   It’s Perfectly Normal: A Book about Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health- Harris, Robie

26.   The Geography Club- Hartinger, Brent

27.   The Day After Tomorrow- Heinlein, Robert

28.   Hang-ups, Hook-ups, and Holding Out: Stuff You Need to Know about Your Body, Sex, and Dating- Holmes, Melisa, and Trish Hutchinson

29.   The Kite Runner- Hosseini, Khaled

30.   Brave New World- Huxley, Aldous

31.   Dead Folks- Jackson, Jon

32.   Me, Penelope- Jahn-Clough, Lisa

33.   Girl, Interrupted- Kaysen, Susanna

34.   To Kill a Mockingbird- Lee, harper

35.   The Boy Book: A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus Techniques for Taming Them- Lockhart, E.

36.   Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West- Maguire, Gregory

37.   In Country- Mason, Bobbie

38.   Twilight Series- Meyer, Stephenie

39.   The Bluest Eye- Morrison, Toni

40.   Fallen Angels- Myers, Walter

41.   Hoops- Myers, Walter

42.   ttfn – Myracle, Lauren

43.   ttyl- Myracle, Lauren

44.   Alice on Her Way- Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds

45.   Whispers from the Dead- Nixon, Joan Lowery

46.   Bling Bling: Hip Hop’s Crown Jewels- Oh, Minya

47.   My Sister’s Keeper- Picoult, Jodi

48.   Nineteen Minutes- Picoult, Jodi

49.   The Golden Compass- Pullman, Philip

50.   Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confession of Georgia Nicolson- Rennison, Louise

51.   And Tango Makes Three- Richardson, Justin, and Peter Parnell

52.   The Book of Bunny Suicides: Little Fluffy Rabbits Who Kist Don’t Want to Live Any more- Riley, Andy

53.   The Catcher in the Rye- Salinger, J.D.

54.   Vamos a Cuba (A Visit to Cuba)- Schreier, Alta

55.   The Lovely Bones- Sebold, Alice

56.   The Bookseller of Kabul- Seierstad, Anse

57.   The Joy of Gay Sex- Silverstein, Charles, and Felice Picano

58.   Prep: A Novel- Sittenfeld, Curtis

59.   The Amulet of Samarkand- Stroud, Jonathan

60.   The Golem’s Eye- Stroud, Jonathan

61.   Ptolemy’s Gate- Stroud, Jonathan

62.   The Girl’s Life Online- Tarbox, Katherine

63.   The Land- Taylor, Mildred

64.   Notre Dame vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan- Tucker, Todd

65.   The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Twain, Mark

66.   The Color Purple- Walker, Alice

67.   A People’s History of the United States- Zinn, Howard

Banned Books 2009-2010

1.       The Absolutely True diary of a Part-Time Indian- Alexie, Sherman

2.       Twisted- Anderson, Laurie Halse

3.       I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings- Angelou, Maya

4.       Baybe Be-Bop- Block- Francesca Lia

5.       The Tortilla Curtain- Boyle, T. Coraghessan

6.       Buster’s Sugartime- Brown, Marc Tolon

7.       Running with Scissors- Burroughs, Augusten

8.       House of Night series- Cast, P.C., and Kristin Cast

9.       The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Chobsky, Stephen

10.   Joy of Sex- Comfort, Alex

11.   Deadline- Crutcher, Chris

12.   Deal with It! A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain, and Life as a gURL- Drill, Esther

13.   Sex for Busy People: The Art of the Quickie for Lovers on the Go- Dubberley, Emily

14.   Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America- Ehrenreich, Barbara

15.   Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl- Frank, Anne

16.   Aura- Fuentes, Carlos

17.   Mastering Multiple Position Sex- Garrison, Eric Marlowe

18.   The Dead Man in Indian Creek- Hahn, Mary Downing

19.   Lesbian Kama Sutra- Harding, Kat

20.   Geography Club- Hartinger, Brent

21.   “Hills Like White Elephants: A Short Story:” The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway- Hemingway, Ernest

22.   Mein Kampf- Hitler, Adolf

23.   A Prayer for Owen Meany- Irving, John

24.   The Bermudez Triangle- Johnson, Maureen

25.   “Survivor Type: A Short Story” from Skeleton Crew- King, Stephen

26.   The Bean Trees- Kingsolver, Barbara

27.   The Cartoons That Shook the World- Klausen, Jytte

28.   Lessons from a Dead Girl- Knowles, Jo (Johanna Beth)

29.   To Kill a Mockingbird- Lee, Harper

30.   “The Crack Cocaine Diet” A Short Story from Hardly Knew Her- Lippman, Laura

31.   Kurt Cobain- Martin, Michael

32.   In The Middle of the Night: The Shocking True Story of a Family Killed in Cold Blood- McDonald, Brian

33.   Vampire Academy series- Mead, Richelle

34.   Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary- Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff

35.   Twilight series- Meyer, Stephenie

36.   A League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier- Moore, Alan

37.   Song of Solomon- Morrison, Toni

38.   ttyl- Myracle, Lauren

39.   And Tango Makes Three- Richardson, Justin, and Peter Parnell

40.   Stuck in the Middle: Seventeen Comics from an Unpleasant Age- Schrag, Ariel

41.   Living Dead Girl- Scott, Elizabeth

42.   “I Like Guys” A Short Story from Naked- Sedaris, David

43.   The Bookseller of Kabul- Seierstad, Asne

44.   How to Get Suspended and Influence People- Selzer, Adam

45.   Unwind- Shusterman, Neal

46.   The Joy of Gay Sex- Silverstein, Charles, and Felice Picano

47.   The Egypt Game- Snyder, Zilpha Keatley

48.   One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies- Sones, Sonya

49.   Dragon Ball: The Monkey King- Toriyama, Akira

50.   Only in Your Dreams: A Gossip Girl Novel- Von Ziegesar, Cecily

51.   Jubilee- Walker, Margaret

52.   The Glass Castle: A Memoir- Walls, Jeannette

53.   Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poems- WritersCorps

Banned Books 2010-2011

1.       The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian- Alexie, Sherman

2.       Speak- Anderson, Laurie Halse

3.       The Flamingo Rising- Baker, Larry

4.       The Notebook Girls: Four Friends, One Diary, Real Life- Baskin, Julia, Lindsey Newman, Sophie Pollitt-Cohen, and Courtney Toombs

5.       Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood- Brashares, Ann

6.       Running with Scissors- Burroughs, Augusten

7.       My Mom’s Having a Baby- Butler, Dori Hillstead

8.       Betrayed- Cast, P.C., and Kristin Cast

9.       The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Chobsky, Stephen

10.   The Awakening- Chopin, Kate

11.   The Hunger Games- Collins Suzanne

12.   Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes- Crutcher, Chris

13.   Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America- Ehrenreich, Barbara

14.   Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close-Foer, Johnathan Safran

15.   Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl- Frank, Anne

16.   Water for Elephants- Gruen, Sara

17.   Snow Falling on Cedars- Guterson, David

18.   The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time- Haddon, Mark

19.   The Dead Man in Indian Creek- Hahn, Mary Downing

20.   Get Well Soon- Halpern, Julie

21.   Snakehead- Horwitz, Anthony

22.   Brave New World- Huxley, Aldous

23.   Stolen Children- Kehret, Peg

24.   The Koran

25.   Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India- Lelveld, Joseph

26.   Vegan Virgin Valentine- Mackler, Carolyn

27.   What’s Happening to My Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-up Guide for Parents & Sons- Madaras, Lynda, and Dane Saavedra

28.   Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa- Mathabane, Mark

29.   Shooting Star- McKissack, Fredrick, Jr

30.   “Writers’ Voice” Selected from Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir- Monette, Paul

31.   Tweaked: A Crystal Meth Memoir- Moore, Patrick

32.   Song of Solomon- Morrison, Toni

33.   ttyl- Myracle, Lauren

34.   Twenty Boy Summer- Ockler, Sarah

35.   The Body of Christopher Creed- Plum-Ucci, Carol

36.   The Catcher in the Rye- Salinger, J.D.

37.   Push- Sapphire (Ramona Lofton)

38.   Pit Bulls and Tenacious Guard Dogs- Semencic, Carl

39.   We’ll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives- Shaffer, Paul

40.   The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star- Sixx, Nikki

41.   Bone- Smith, Jeff

42.   One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies at the End- Sones, Sonya

43.   Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology- Sonnie, Amy

44.   Slaughterhouse- Five- Vonnegut, Kurt

45.   Jubilee- Walker,  Margaret

46.   Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poems- WritersCorps

Banned Books 2011-2012

1.       The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian- Alexie, Sherman

2.       Speak- Anderson, Laurie Halse

3.       To The Wedding,- Berger, John

4.       Bhagavad-Gita as It Is

5.       What’s the Big Secret? Talking About Sex With Girls and Boys- Brown, Laurie Krasny and Marc Brown

6.       My Mom’s Having a Baby- Butler, Dori Hillestad

7.       In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences- Capote, Truman

8.       Ender’s Game- Card, Orson Scott

9.       Betrayed- Cast, P. C. and Kristin Cast

10.   The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Chbosky, Stephen

11.   A Study in Scarlet- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

12.   Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America- Ehrenreich, Barbara

13.   The Wars- Findley, Timothy

14.   Looking for Alaska- Green, John

15.   Water for Elephants- Gruen, Sara

16.   It’s Perfectly Normal: A Book about Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health- Harris, Robie H.

17.   Tintin in the Congo- Herge (Georges Remi)

18.   The Kite Runner- Hosseini, Khaled

19.   Stolen Children- Kehret, Peg

20.   Hold Still- LaCour, Nina

21.   Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India- Lelveld, Joseph

22.   The Hunt Club- Lott, Bret

23.   Tangled- Mackler, Carolyn

24.   500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures- Martinez, Elizabeth

25.   Beloved- Morrison, Toni

26.   The Bluest Eye- Morrison, Toni

27.   Norwegian Wood- Murakami, Haruki

28.   Lajja (Shame)- Nasrin, Taslima

29.   Lovingly Alice- Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds

30.   Twenty Boy Summer- Ockler, Sarah

31.   The Adventure of Super Diaper Baby- Pilkey, Dav

32.   And Tango Makes Three- Richardson, Justin and Peter Parnell

33.   Push- Sapphire (Ramona Lofton)

34.   Stuck in the Middle: Seventeen Comics from an Unpleasant Age- Schrag, Ariel

35.   Pit Bulls and Tenacious Guard Dogs- Semencic, Carl

36.   No Fear Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet- Shakespeare, William

37.   Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines- Sheff, Nic

38.   Waterland- Swift, Graham

39.   Slaughterhouse-Five- Vonnegut, Kurt

40.   Only in Your Dreams: A Gossip Girl Novel- Von Ziegesar, Cecily

41.   The Glass Castle: A Memoir- Walls, Jeannette

42.   Montana 1948: A Novel- Watson, Larry

Banned Books 2012-2013

1.       The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian- Alexie, Sherman

2.       Feed- Anderson, M. T.

3.       The Handmaid’s Tale- Atwood, Margaret

4.       Stone Dreams- Aylisli, Akram

5.       Uncle Bobby’s Wedding- Brannen, Sarah

6.       Ender’s Game- Card, Orson Scott

7.       The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Chobsky, Stephen

8.       When It Happens- Colasanti, Susane

9.       The Most Dangerous Game- Connell, Richard

10.   Carter Finally Gets It- Crawford, Brent

11.   Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America- Ehrenreich, Barbara

12.   Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies- Esquivel, Laura

13.   Looking for Alaska- Green, John

14.   Tintin in the Congo- Herge (Georges Remi)

15.   The Kite Runner- Hosseini, Khaled

16.   Totally Joe-  Howe, James

17.   The Popularity Papers- Ignatow, Amy

18.   Fifty Shades of Grey- James, E. L.

19.   Different Seasons- King, Stephen

20.   SideScrollers- Loux, Matthew

21.   Allah, Liberty and Love- Manji, Irshad

22.   500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures- Martinez, Elizabeth

23.   Neonomicon- Moore, Alan

24.   Beloved- Morrison, Toni

25.   Fallen Angels- Myers, Walter Dean

26.   Intensely Alice- Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds

27.   Fight Club- Palahnuik, Chuck

28.   The Family Book- Parr, Todd

29.   A Child Called It- Pelzer, Dave

30.   The Body of Christopher Creed- Plum-Ucci, Carol

31.   In Our Mothers’ House-  Polacco, Patricia

32.   And Tango Makes Three- Richardson, Justin and Peter Parnell

33.   Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood- Satrapi, Marjane

34.   No Fear Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet- Shakespeare, William

35.   Prep: A Novel- Sittenfeld, Curtis

36.   A Thousand Acres- Smiley, Jane

37.   Waterland- Swift, Graham

38.   Hero Heel 2- Tateno, Makoto

39.   The Dirty Cowboy- Timberlake, Amy

40.   Stuck in Neutral- Trueman, Terry

41.   The Glass Castle: A Memoir- Walls, Jeannette

42.   robopocalypse- Wilson, Daniel Howard

43.   The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test- Wolfe, Tom

Banned Books 2013-2014

1.       The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian- Alexie, Sherman

2.       The House of the Spirits- Allende, Isabel

3.       Bless Me, Ultima- Anaya, Rudolfo

4.       The Handmaid’s Tale- Atwood, Margaret

5.       Stone Dreams- Aylisli, Akram

6.       The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Chobsky, Stephen

7.       World History- Ellis, Elizabeth Gaynor and Anthony Esler

8.       Invisible Man- Ellison, Ralph

9.       The Middle School Survival Guide- Erlbach, Arlene

10.   Pillars of the Earth- Follett, Ken

11.   Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl- Frank, Anne

12.   Neverwhere- Gaiman, Neil

13.   Looking for Alaska- Green, John

14.   The Popularity Papers- Ignatow, Amy

15.   I Hunt Killers- Lyga, Barry

16.   Bluest Eye- Morrison, Toni

17.   Fallen Angels- Myers, Walter Dean

18.   Intensely Alice- Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds

19.   Muslim Women and the Challenges of Islamic Extremists- Othman, Morani, ed.

20.   And the Earth Did Not Devour Him- Rivera, Tomas

21.   I Am Bane- Rosen, Lucy

22.   Eleanor & Park- Rowell, Rainbow

23.   The Little Black Book for Girlz: A Book on Healthy Sexuality- St. Stephen’s Community House

24.   Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood- Satrapi, Marjane

25.   A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl- Stone, Tanya Lee

26.   Color Purple- Walker, Alice

27.   Nasreen’s Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan- Winter, Jeanette

28.   The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq- Winter, Jeanette

Banned Books 2014-2015

1.       The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian- Alexie, Sherman

2.       House of Night series- Cast, P.C., and Kristin Cast

3.       Chinese Handcuffs- Crutcher, Chris

4.       The Miseducation of Cameron Post- Danforth, Emily M.

5.       Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You- DeClements, Barth

6.       Little Brother- Doctorow, Cory

7.       Hop On Pop: The Simplest Seuss for Youngest Use- Geisel, Theodore Seuss (Dr. Seuss)

8.       If I Ran the Zoo- Geisel, Theodore Seuss (Dr. Seuss)

9.       An Abundance of Katherines- Green, John

10.   The Fault in Our Stars- Green, John

11.   Looking for Alaska- Green, John

12.   Paper Towns- Green, John

13.   The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time- Haddon, Mark

14.   It’s Perfectly Normal: A Book about Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health- Harris, Robie H.

15.   Who’s in My Family?: All About Our Families (Let’s Talk About You and Me)-Harris, Robie H.

16.   Tintin in America- Herge (Georges Remi)

17.   Siddhartha- Hesse, Herman

18.   Identical- Hopkins, Ellen

19.   The Kite Runner- Hosseini, Khaled

20.   Brave New World- Huxley, Aldous

21.   Two Boys Kissing- Levithan, David

22.   Twilight series- Meyer, Stephanie

23.   The Bluest Eye- Morrison, Toni

24.   Song of Solomon- Morrison, Toni

25.   Madhorubhagan (One Part Woman)- Murugan, Perumal

26.   The White Swan Express: A Story about Adoption- Okimoto, Jean Davies and Elaine M. Aoki

27.   Nineteen Minutes- Picoult, Jodi

28.   And Tango Makes Three- Richardson, Justin and Peter Parnell

29.   Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood- Satrapi, Marjane

30.   The Working Poor: Inviable in America- Shipler, David K

31.   The Art of Racing in the Rain- Stein, Garth

32.   Of Mice and Men- Steinbeck, John

33.   The Glass Castle: A Memoir- Walls, Jeannette