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September 22 - 28 is Banned Books Week, an annual event celebrating the freedom to read.
Banned Book Week spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools. Check out a book that others have questioned or banned and celebrate your freedom!
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George
Alex Gino · Scholastic Press
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl.George thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their class play is going to be Charlotte's Web. George really, really, REALLY wants to play... |
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The Hate U Give
A C THOMAS · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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A National Book Award Longlist title with eight starred reviews! #1 New York Times Bestseller!"Absolutely riveting!" - Jason Reynolds"Stunning." - John Green"This story is necessary. This story is important." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Heartbreakingly... |
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Drama
Raina Telgemeier · Graphix/Scholastic
Pages: 233
Format: Hardcover
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From Raina Telgemeier, the #1 New York Times bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile and Sisters! Callie loves theater. And while she would totally try out for her middle school's production of Moon over Mississippi, she can't really sing. Instead she's the set designer... |
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Thirteen Reasons Why
Jay Asher · Razorbill; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "Eerie, beautiful, and devastating." - Chicago Tribune "A stealthy hit with staying power. . . . thriller-like pacing." - The New York Times "Thirteen Reasons Why will leave you with chills long after you have... |
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This One Summer
Mariko Tamaki · First Second, 2014. ©2014
Pages: 317
Format: Paperback
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A New York Times bestsellerA 2015 Caldecott Honor BookA 2015 Michael L. Printz Honor BookEvery summer, Rose goes with her mom and dad to a lake house in Awago Beach. It's their getaway, their refuge. Rosie's friend Windy is always there, too, like the little sister she never had. But this... |
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Skippyjon Jones Snow What
Judy Schachner · Dial Books
Pages: 32
Format: Audiobook
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The #1 New York Times bestselling Skippyjon Jones stars in his own playful fairy tale set in a winter snowscape!Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the bravest Chihuahua of them all? Skippyjon Jones, the Siamese cat who thinks he's a dog! While his sisters listen to Snow White and the Seven... |
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie · Little, Brown and Co.
Pages: 229
Format: Paperback
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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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Two Boys Kissing
David Levithan · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
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A 2014 Lambda Literary Award Winner A 2014 Stonewall Honor BookNamed to the 2013 National Book Award Longlist "You have to read this." - Rainbow Rowell, author of Eleanor & Park In his follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Every Day, David Levithan, coauthor of bestsellers... |
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · Scribner; Media Tie-In edition
Format: Paperback
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The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish... |
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The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger · Back Bay Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories--particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme With Love and Squalor--will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is full of children. The hero-narrator of The Catcher... |
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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck · Penguin Classics
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized - and sometimes outraged - millions of readers. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great... |
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · Harper
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American ReadHarper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South - and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatredOne of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird... |
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The Color Purple
Alice Walker · Open Road Media
Pages: 302
Format: eBook
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this novel about a resilient and courageous woman has become a Broadway show and a cultural phenomenon. A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused... |
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Ulysses
Joyce, James
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) The most famous day in literature is June 16, 1904, when a certain Mr. Leopold Bloom of Dublin eats a kidney for breakfast, attends a funeral, admires a girl on the beach, contemplates his wife's imminent adultery, and, l |
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Lord of the Flies:
William Golding · Penguin Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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William Golding's unforgettable classic of boyhood adventure and the savagery of humanity comes to Penguin Classics in a stunning Graphic Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lois Lowry As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite... |
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1984
· Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick With extraordinary relevance and renewed popularity, George Orwell's 1984 takes on new life in this hardcover edition. "Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above... |
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Gone with the Wind, 75th Anniversary Edition
Margaret Mitchell · Scribner
Pages: 959
Format: Paperback
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Since its original publication in 1936, Gone With the Wind - winner of the Pulitzer Prize and one of the bestselling novels of all time - has been heralded by readers everywhere as The Great American Novel.Widely considered The Great American Novel, and often remembered for its epic film... |
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The Satanic Verses
Amadou Moustapha Wade · The Viking Press
Pages: 47
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie's best-known and most galvanizing book. Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight.... |
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Sophie's Choice
William Styron · Modern Library
Format: Hardcover
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeOne morning in the early spring, I woke up with the remembrance of a girl Id once known, Sophie. It was a very vivid half-dream, half-revelation, and all of a sudden I realized that hers was a story I had to tell. That... |
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