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This Library Supports Your Freedom to Read What You Want.
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#1Gender Queerby Maia KobabeIn 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 family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fan fiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Reasons Banned: For containing LGBTQIA+ content and claimed to be sexually explicit
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#2 All Boys Aren't Blueby George M. JohnsonA first book by the prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist shares personal essays that chronicle his childhood, adolescence and college years as a Black queer youth, exploring subjects ranging from gender identity and toxic masculinity to structural marginalization and Black joy. Reasons Banned: For containing LGBTQIA+ content and claimed to be sexually explicit
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#3 The Bluest Eyeby Toni MorrisonA new edition of the first novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author relates the story of Pecola Breedlove, an eleven-year-old Black girl growing up in an America that values blue-eyed blondes, and the tragedy that results because of her longing to be accepted. Reasons Banned: For depiction of sexual abuse, EDI content, claimed to be sexually explicit
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#4 Flamer by Mike CuratoIn the summer between middle school and high school, Aiden Navarro is away at camp where he navigates friendships, deals with bullies, and spends time with Elias (a boy he can not stop thinking about), he finds himself on a path of self-discovery and acceptance. Reasons Banned: For containing LGBTQIA+ content and claimed to be sexually explicit
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#5 Looking for Alaska by John GreenSixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash. Reasons Banned: For containing LGBTQIA+ content and claimed to be sexually explicit
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#5 The Perks of Being a Wallflowerby Stephen ChboskyThis haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a provocative voice in contemporary fiction. This is the story of what it's like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters are singular, hilarious, and devastating. Reasons Banned: For depiction of sexual abuse, LGBTQIA+ content, drug use, profanity, claimed to be sexually explicit
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#7 Lawn Boyby Jonathan EvisonFaced by a life of menial prospects in the years after high school, Mike Muñoz, a young Mexican-American, attempts over and over to change his life for the better and achieve the American dream only to be stymied by social class distinctions and cultural discrimination. Reasons Banned: For containing LGBTQIA+ content and claimed to be sexually explicit
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#8 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexieThe story of a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation who leaves his troubled school to pursue an education in an all-white farm town where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Reasons Banned: For profanity, claimed to be sexually explicit
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#9 Out Of Darkness by Ashley Hope PérezLoosely based on a school explosion that took place in Texas in 1937, tells the story of two teenagers--Naomi, who is Mexican, and Wash, who is black--and their dealings with race, segregation, love, and the forces that destroy people. Reasons Banned: For depictions of abuse, claimed to be sexually explicit
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#10 A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. MaasThough Feyre now has the powers of the High Fae, her heart remains human, but as she navigates the feared Night Court's dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms--and she might be key to stopping it. Reasons Banned: Claimed to be sexual explicit
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#10 Crank by Ellen HopkinsGifted Kristina Georgia Snow takes a harrowing journey through the nightmare of drug addiction, in a book based on actual events. Reasons Banned: For containing LGBTQIA+ content and claimed to be sexually explicit
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#10 Me And Earl And The Dying Girl by Jesse AndrewsSeventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia. Reasons Banned: For containing LGBTQIA+ content and claimed to be sexually explicit
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#10 This Book is Gay by Juno DawsonA British author of teen fiction offers basic information about the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender experience, including terms, religious issues, coming out, and sex acts, for people of all orientations, including the merely curious. Reasons Banned: For containing LGBTQIA+ content and claimed to be sexually explicit
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