Historically Challenged or Banned Books

1) 1984

Author

Orwell, George

Series

Oberon Modern Plays

Formats:

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Para controlar todo no basta con apropiarse sólo de la voluntad y de la conciencia de los individuos, hay que hacerse dueño de su lenguaje. En 1984 encontramos al líder único, cuya presencia es antes que nada una abstracción, la negación del individuo, la sustracción de la información: el Gran Hermano, el Big Brother.

2) The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian

Author

Alexie, Sherman

Formats:

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Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

3) The adventures of Captain Underpants now in full color: the first epic novel

Author

Pilkey, Dav

Series

Captain Underpants volume 1

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When George and Harold hypnotize their principal into thinking that he is the superhero Captain Underpants, he leads them to the lair of the nefarious Dr. Diaper, where they must defeat his evil robot henchmen.

4) The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Author

Twain, Mark

Series

Best Mark Twain Books

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Sound Disc

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Huck, in flight from his murderous father, and Jim, in flight from slavery, pilot their raft down the Mississippi River in search of freedom.

5) The adventures of Super Diaper Baby

Author

Beard, George [Dav Pilkey]

Series

Super diaper baby volume 1

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Irrepressible friends George and Harold create a new comic book superhero, Super Diaper Baby.

6) All American boys

Author

Reynolds, Jason

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When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints.

7) All boys aren't blue: a memoir-manifesto

Author

Johnson, George M

Formats:

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A 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.

8) Almost Perfect

Author

Katcher, Brian

Formats:

eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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This winner of the first Stonewall Award for Children’s & Young Adult Literature will make you marvel at the beauty of human connection and the irrepressible nature of love.

Everyone has that one line they swear they’ll never cross, the one thing they say they’ll never do. We draw the line. Maybe we even believe it.

Sage Hendricks was my line.

Logan Witherspoon...

9) And Tango makes three

Author

Richardson, Justin

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At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches.

10) The awakening

Author

Chopin, Kate

Series

Dover thrift editions

Formats:

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In the summer of her 28th year, Edna Pontellier and her children, along with the wives and families of other prospective businessmen, spend the summer in an idyllic coastal community away from their husbands and the sweltering heat of 1890s' New Orleans. Aware of deep yearnings that are unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood, Edna plunges into an illicit liaison that reawakens her long dormant desires, inflames her heart, and eventually blinds her...

11) Bad kitty

Author

Bruel, Nick

Series

Bad Kitty (Picture books) volume 1

Notes

The entire Bad Kitty Series has been challenged.

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When a kitty discovers there is no cat food in the house, she decides to become very, very bad.

12) Beloved: a novel

Author

Morrison, Toni

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Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. After the Civil War ends, Sethe longingly recalls the two-year-old daughter whom she killed when threatened with recapture...

13) Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out

Author

Kuklin, Susan

Formats:

eBook, Kindle

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A 2015 Stonewall Honor Book
A groundbreaking work of LGBT literature takes an honest look at the life, love, and struggles of transgender teens.
Author and photographer Susan Kuklin met and interviewed six transgender or gender-neutral young adults and used her considerable skills to represent them thoughtfully and respectfully before, during, and after their personal acknowledgment of gender preference. Portraits, family photographs,

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14) Bless Me, Ultima

Author

Anaya, Rudolfo

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This coming-of-age classic from "one of the nation's foremost Chicano literary artists" follows a young boy as he questions his faith and beliefs after a curandera woman introduces herbs and magic into his life (Denver Post).
Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will probe the family...

15) The bluest eye

Author

Morrison, Toni

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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 from her longing to be accepted.

16) Bone /Tall Tales

Author

Smith, Jeff

Series

Bone (Jeff Smith)

Notes

The entire Bone series by Jeff Smith has been challenged.

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Smiley entertains the Bone Scouts by telling them stories about the suspect adventures of the mighty explorer Big Johnson Bone before his discovery of the Rolling Bone River and establishment of a famous trading post.

17) Brave new world

Author

Huxley, Aldous

Formats:

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Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, inhabited by genetically modified citizens and an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged

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18) Burned

Author

Hopkins, Ellen

Series

Burned

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Raised in a stern, abusive Mormon household, a teenage girl starts to question her religion and struggles to find her destiny. Her father is abusive, her mother is submissive, and her church looks the other way. Confused and angry, Pattyn Von Stratten acts out and is sent to live with an aunt on a Nevada ranch. She finds the love and acceptance she craves, with disturbing consequences.

19) The catcher in the rye

Author

Salinger, J. D

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Holden Caulfield, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there.

20) A child called "it": one child's courage to survive

Author

Pelzer, Dave

Series

David Pelzer trilogy volume 1

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Tells the story of a child's abuse at the hands of his alcoholic mother