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The Top 13 Most Challenged Books of 2022 infographic was released as part of the 2023 State of America's Libraries Report on Monday, April 24
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Gender Queer: A Memoir
Maia Kobabe - Oni Press
Format: Paperback
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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... |
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All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto
Johnson, George M. - FARRAR STRAUSS & GIROUX
Format: Book
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In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother,... |
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The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison - Knopf
Format: Book
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The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove -- a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others -- who prays... |
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Flamer
Mike Curato - Henry Holt and Co. BYR Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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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.I know I'm not gay. Gay boys like other boys. I hate boys. They're mean, and scary, and they're always destroying... |
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Looking for Alaska Deluxe Edition
John Green - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A gorgeous collectors edition of the critically acclaimed debut novel by John Green, #1 bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our StarsA perfect gift for every fan, this deluxe hardcover features a stunning special edition jacket and 50 pages of all-new exclusive... |
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky - MTV Books
Format: Paperback
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Read the cult-favorite coming of age story that takes a sometimes heartbreaking, often hysterical, and always honest look at high school in all its glory. Also a major motion picture starring Logan Lerman and Emma Watson, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a funny, touching, and haunting... |
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Lawn Boy
Jonathan Evison - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Jonathan Evison's voice is pure magic. In Lawn Boy, at once a vibrant coming-of-age novel and a sharp social commentary on class, Evison offers a painfully honest portrait of one young man's struggle to overcome the hand he's been dealt in life and reach for his dreams. It's... |
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other... |
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A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses Book 2)
Sarah J. Maas - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The seductive and stunning #1 New York Times bestselling sequel to Sarah J. Maass spellbinding A Court of Thorns and Roses.. Feyre has undergone more trials than one human woman can carry in her heart. Though shes now been granted the powers and lifespan of the High Fae, she is haunted... |
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Crank
Ellen Hopkins - Paw Prints 2008-01-03
Format: Library Binding
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This is a story about a monster. Not a dragon or a mythological beast, but a very real, very destructive monster--crystal meth--that takes hold of seventeen-year-old Kristina Snow and transforms her into her reckless alter-ego Bree. Based on her own daughter's addiction to crystal meth,... |
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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Jesse Andrews - Harry N. Abrams; Mti edition
Format: Print book
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The book that inspired the hit film! Sundance U.S. Dramatic Audience Award Sundance Grand Jury Prize This is the funniest book you'll ever read about death. It is a universally acknowledged truth that high school sucks. But on the first day of his senior year, Greg Gaines thinks... |
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This Book Is Gay
James Dawson - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Hardcover
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"This egregious gap has now been filled to a fare-thee-well by Dawson's book..." - Booklist (Starred) Lesbian. Bisexual. Queer. Transgender. Straight. Curious. This book is for everyone, regardless of gender or sexual preference. This book is for anyone who's ever dared... |
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