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Teen Banned/Challenged Books

Since 1990, the American Library Association (ALA) started tracking the books that have been banned or challenged; this is a list of these books you can find at KPL.

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All American boys

Jason Reynolds

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All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto

George M (George Matthew) Johnson

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Anne Frank : the diary of a young girl

Anne Frank

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Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging :…

Louise Rennison

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Being Jazz : my life as a (transgender) teen

Jazz Jennings

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Beyond magenta : transgender teens speak out

Susan Kuklin

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Black boy : (American hunger) : a record of…

Richard Wright

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Bless me, Ultima

Rudolfo A Anaya

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The bluest eye : a novel

Toni Morrison

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Bone. 1, Out from Boneville

Jeff 1960 February 27- Smith

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Brave new world

Aldous Huxley

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Burned

Ellen Hopkins

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The call of the wild ; and, White Fang

Jack London

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The catcher in the rye

J D (Jerome David) Salinger

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The chocolate war : a novel

Robert Cormier

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The color purple : a novel

Alice Walker

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A court of mist and fury

Sarah J Maas

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Crank

Ellen Hopkins

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The curious incident of the dog in the…

Mark Haddon

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Dear Martin

Nic Stone

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Drama

Raina Telgemeier

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The earth, my butt, and other big round things

Carolyn Mackler

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Eleanor & Park

Rainbow Rowell

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Ender's game

Orson Scott Card

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Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

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Fallen angels

Walter Dean Myers

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Feed

M T Anderson

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Flamer

Mike Curato

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Gender queer : a memoir

Maia Kobabe

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The giver

Lois Lowry

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The Grapes of wrath

John Steinbeck

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The great Gatsby

F Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

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Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone

J K Rowling

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The hate U give

Angie Thomas

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The golden compass

Philip Pullman

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The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

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I know why the caged bird sings

Maya Angelou

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Jack of hearts (and other parts)

Lev AC Rosen

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Real live boyfriends : yes, boyfriends, plural--…

E Lockhart

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The kingdom of little wounds

Susann Cokal

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Lawn boy : a novel

Jonathan Evison

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Looking for Alaska : a novel

John Green

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The fellowship of the ring : being the first…

J R R (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien

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Me and Earl and the dying girl : a novel

Jesse Andrews

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Monday's not coming : a novel

Tiffany D Jackson

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Monster

Walter Dean Myers

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More happy than not

Adam Silvera

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Native son

Richard Wright

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1984 : a novel

George Orwell

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This one summer

Mariko Tamaki

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The outsiders

S E Hinton

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Out of darkness

Ashley Hope Pérez

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The perks of being a wallflower

Stephen Chbosky

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The complete Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi

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A separate peace

John Knowles

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Sold

Patricia McCormick

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Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison

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Speak

Laurie Halse Anderson

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Stamped : racism, antiracism, and you : a REMIX…

Jason Reynolds

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Their eyes were watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

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Tiger eyes : a novel

Judy Blume

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To kill a mockingbird

Harper Lee

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Tricks

Ellen Hopkins

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Ttyl

Lauren Myracle

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Twilight

Stephenie Meyer

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Two boys kissing

David Levithan

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A wrinkle in time

Madeleine L'Engle

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