Drug/Alcohol Use

Books Banned for Drug/Alcohol Use

19 books · 296 total challenges

BANNED 25 challenges

Burned

by Ellen Hopkins

Burned tells the story of Pattyn Von Stratten, a seventeen-year-old girl raised in a strict Mormon household who begins ...

Sexual ContentReligious ObjectionsDrug/Alcohol Use
BANNED 25 challenges

This One Summer

by Mariko Tamaki

This One Summer is a graphic novel about Rose and Windy, two girls spending the summer at a lakeside town, navigating th...

Sexual ContentDrug/Alcohol UseLanguage
BANNED 22 challenges

Glass

by Ellen Hopkins

Glass is the sequel to Crank, continuing Kristina Snow's descent into methamphetamine addiction as she loses custody of ...

Sexual ContentDrug/Alcohol UseLanguage
BANNED 20 challenges

Impulse

by Ellen Hopkins

Impulse follows three teenagers who meet in a psychiatric hospital after each has attempted suicide. It has been challen...

Sexual ContentDrug/Alcohol UseViolence
BANNED 20 challenges

Perfect

by Ellen Hopkins

Perfect follows four teenagers whose pursuit of perfection leads them into eating disorders, steroid abuse, drug addicti...

Sexual ContentDrug/Alcohol UseLGBTQ+ Themes
BANNED 20 challenges

Tilt

by Ellen Hopkins

Tilt follows three teenagers whose lives intersect around love, sex, and identity, told in Ellen Hopkins's signature ver...

Sexual ContentDrug/Alcohol UseLanguage
BANNED 18 challenges

Beautiful

by Amy Reed

Beautiful follows Cassie as she reinvents herself at a new school, falling into a world of drugs, sex, and toxic friends...

Sexual ContentDrug/Alcohol UseLanguage
BANNED 18 challenges

Fallout

by Ellen Hopkins

Fallout follows the three children of Kristina Snow from the Crank trilogy as they navigate the lasting damage of their ...

Sexual ContentDrug/Alcohol UseLanguage
BANNED 18 challenges

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

by Erika L. Sánchez

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter follows Julia Reyes, a first-generation Mexican American teenager dealing with he...

Sexual ContentLanguageDrug/Alcohol Use
BANNED 18 challenges

The Haters

by Jesse Andrews

The Haters follows three jazz camp dropouts who start a band and go on a chaotic road trip through the American South. F...

Sexual ContentLanguageDrug/Alcohol Use
BANNED 17 challenges

Grown

by Tiffany D. Jackson

Tiffany D. Jackson's thriller about Enchanted Jones, a teenage singer who catches the eye of a famous R&B artist, only t...

Sexual ContentViolenceDrug/Alcohol Use
BANNED 16 challenges

Smoke

by Ellen Hopkins

Smoke is the sequel to Burned, continuing Pattyn Von Stratten's story as she deals with devastating loss, her sister's r...

Sexual ContentViolenceDrug/Alcohol Use
BANNED 16 challenges

Traffick

by Ellen Hopkins

Traffick is the sequel to Tricks, following five teenagers trapped in sex trafficking as they fight to escape and rebuil...

Sexual ContentViolenceDrug/Alcohol Use
BANNED 14 challenges

The Carnival at Bray

by Jessie Ann Foley

The Carnival at Bray follows Maggie Lynch, a Chicago teenager transplanted to a small Irish town in 1993, navigating gri...

Sexual ContentDrug/Alcohol UseLanguage
BANNED 8 challenges

Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction

by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Jarrett J. Krosoczka's graphic memoir about growing up with a mother addicted to heroin, being raised by his grandparent...

Drug/Alcohol UseLanguageSensitive Topics
BANNED 6 challenges

Little and Lion

by Brandy Colbert

Brandy Colbert's novel about Suzette, a bisexual teen who returns home from boarding school to help her stepbrother Lion...

LGBTQ+ ContentSexual ContentDrug/Alcohol Use
BANNED 5 challenges

Chain Reaction

by Simone Elkeles

The third book in Simone Elkeles' Perfect Chemistry trilogy, following Luis Fuentes as he falls for his chemistry partne...

Sexual ContentLanguageDrug/Alcohol Use
BANNED 5 challenges

On the Road

by Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac's defining Beat Generation novel, a semi-autobiographical account of cross-country road trips with his frie...

Sexual ContentDrug/Alcohol UseLanguage
BANNED 5 challenges

The Drawing of the Three

by Stephen King

The second book in Stephen King's Dark Tower series, where gunslinger Roland Deschain opens doorways to 1980s New York a...

ViolenceDrug/Alcohol UseLanguage