Books Banned in Florida

661 banned books

BANNED 167 challenges

1984

by George Orwell

1984 is George Orwell's dystopian novel about Winston Smith, a low-ranking member of the ruling Party in the totalitaria...

Political ContentSexual ContentViolence
BANNED 151 challenges

Gender Queer: A Memoir

by Maia Kobabe

Gender Queer is a graphic memoir by Maia Kobabe that explores eir journey with gender identity and sexuality. The book h...

Sexual ContentLGBTQ+ ThemesAge Inappropriateness
BANNED 104 challenges

A Court of Mist and Fury

by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Mist and Fury is the second book in Sarah J. Maas's ACOTAR series, following Feyre as she navigates the after...

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 102 challenges

A Court of Wings and Ruin

by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Wings and Ruin is the third book in Sarah J. Maas's ACOTAR series, following Feyre as she leads a dangerous m...

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 96 challenges

Empire of Storms

by Sarah J. Maas

The fifth Throne of Glass novel placed #4 on ALA's 2025 most-challenged books list as Sarah J. Maas remained a major cen...

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 78 challenges

It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health

by Robie H. Harris

It's Perfectly Normal by Robie H. Harris is a comprehensive sex education book for young people. It has been one of the ...

Sexual ContentAge InappropriatenessLGBTQ+ Themes
BANNED 73 challenges

Melissa (formerly George)

by Alex Gino

Alex Gino's middle-grade novel about a transgender fourth-grader, the most banned book in America from 2018 to 2020....

LGBTQ+ ThemesSexual ContentAnti-Family Content
BANNED 58 challenges

And Tango Makes Three

by Justin Richardson & Peter Parnell

A children's picture book about two male penguins who raise a chick together, based on a true story from the Central Par...

LGBTQ+ ThemesAnti-Family ContentAge Inappropriateness
BANNED 56 challenges

The Chocolate War

by Robert Cormier

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier is a YA novel about a student who refuses to participate in his school's chocolate f...

Sexual ContentProfanityViolence
BANNED 45 challenges

Black Boy

by Richard Wright

Black Boy by Richard Wright is an autobiography of growing up Black in the Jim Crow South. Banned for decades for 'obsce...

Racial ContentProfanitySexual Content
BANNED 45 challenges

Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov is a controversial literary masterpiece about an unreliable narrator's obsession with a young...

Sexual ContentAge Inappropriateness
BANNED 43 challenges

Maus I: A Survivor's Tale

by Art Spiegelman

Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, depicting Jews as mice and Nazis as cats, ban...

ProfanityViolenceAge Inappropriateness
BANNED 42 challenges

Where the Wild Things Are

by Maurice Sendak

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak has been challenged and banned since 1963 for being too dark and frightening...

Occult/SupernaturalAge InappropriatenessViolence
BANNED 40 challenges

A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle is a beloved science fantasy novel challenged for decades by both religious conse...

Religious ObjectionsOccult/Supernatural
BANNED 39 challenges

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou's memoir of growing up Black in the Jim Crow South, challenged for its depiction of childhood sexual assaul...

Sexual ContentRacial ContentProfanity
BANNED 37 challenges

The Glass Castle

by Jeannette Walls

Jeannette Walls' memoir of growing up with dysfunctional, nomadic parents, challenged for depictions of alcoholism, sexu...

Sexual ContentDrug/Alcohol ContentProfanity
BANNED 36 challenges

All American Boys

by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely tackles police brutality and racism through two teens' perspective...

ProfanityDrug/Alcohol ContentPolitical Content
BANNED 35 challenges

Beyond Magenta

by Susan Kuklin

Beyond Magenta presents the stories of six transgender and nonbinary teens through interviews and photographs. It has be...

LGBTQ+ ThemesSexual ContentAge Inappropriateness
BANNED 35 challenges

The Family Book

by Todd Parr

The Family Book by Todd Parr is a picture book celebrating all types of families. Banned in Illinois, Florida, and Texas...

LGBTQ+ ThemesAnti-Family Content
BANNED 35 challenges

The Nowhere Girls

by Amy Reed

The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed follows three misfit teenagers who take on their school's rape culture. Banned in multiple...

Sexual ContentLGBTQ+ ThemesProfanity
BANNED 34 challenges

Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel about a future where books are burned by the government — itself repeatedly banned and ce...

ProfanityReligious ObjectionsViolence
BANNED 32 challenges

Shine

by Lauren Myracle

Shine by Lauren Myracle follows a teen girl investigating a hate crime against her gay best friend in a small Southern t...

LGBTQ+ ThemesViolenceDrug/Alcohol Content
BANNED 31 challenges

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

Suzanne Collins' dystopian novel about children forced to fight to the death, challenged for violence, anti-government t...

ViolenceAge InappropriatenessPolitical Content
BANNED 30 challenges

Deenie

by Judy Blume

Deenie by Judy Blume follows a teenager diagnosed with scoliosis who must wear a back brace. Banned for decades because ...

Sexual ContentAge Inappropriateness
BANNED 30 challenges

Julián Is a Mermaid

by Jessica Love

While riding the subway with his abuela, Julian sees three women dressed as mermaids and is inspired to dress up as one ...

LGBTQ+ ThemesAge Inappropriateness
BANNED 30 challenges

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

by Malinda Lo

Set in 1950s San Francisco Chinatown, Last Night at the Telegraph Club follows Lily Hu as she discovers her attraction t...

LGBTQ+ ThemesSexual Content
BANNED 30 challenges

Living Dead Girl

by Elizabeth Scott

Living Dead Girl tells the story of Alice, a girl kidnapped at age ten and held captive by a predator for five years. Wr...

Sexual ContentViolenceAge Inappropriateness
BANNED 30 challenges

New Kid

by Jerry Craft

Jordan Banks, a Black seventh-grader from Washington Heights, navigates being one of the few kids of color at a prestigi...

Racial ContentPolitical ContentAge Inappropriateness
BANNED 30 challenges

The Lovely Bones

by Alice Sebold

The Lovely Bones is narrated by Susie Salmon, a fourteen-year-old girl who watches from heaven as her family and killer ...

Sexual ContentViolenceLanguage
BANNED 29 challenges

Animal Farm

by George Orwell

Animal Farm by George Orwell is an allegorical novella about a farm revolution that descends into tyranny. Banned for po...

Political ContentReligious ObjectionsSexual Content
BANNED 28 challenges

Breathless

by Jennifer Niven

Breathless follows Claudine Henry through a transformative summer of first love, self-discovery, and sexual awakening be...

Sexual ContentLanguage
BANNED 28 challenges

The Diary of a Young Girl

by Anne Frank

Anne Frank's diary of hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam, challenged for passages about her body, sexuality, and romanti...

Sexual ContentLGBTQ+ ThemesReligious Objections
BANNED 27 challenges

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

by Mark Haddon

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon follows a neurodiverse teen solving a neighborhood myst...

ProfanityReligious ObjectionsAge Inappropriateness
BANNED 25 challenges

A Clash of Kings

by George R. R. Martin

A Clash of Kings, the second book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, continues the epic struggle for the Iron Throne ...

Sexual ContentViolenceLanguage
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

Monster

by Walter Dean Myers

Monster by Walter Dean Myers follows a 16-year-old Black teenager on trial for felony murder, told through his screenpla...

ViolenceProfanityRacial Content
BANNED 25 challenges

People Kill People

by Ellen Hopkins

People Kill People by Ellen Hopkins examines gun violence through six interconnected perspectives. Banned across multipl...

ViolencePolitical ContentProfanity
BANNED 25 challenges

The DUFF

by Kody Keplinger

The DUFF follows seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper, who is labeled the 'Designated Ugly Fat Friend' and begins a complicat...

Sexual ContentLanguage
BANNED 25 challenges

The Fault in Our Stars

by John Green

John Green's bestselling novel about two teenagers, Hazel and Augustus, who meet at a cancer support group and fall in l...

Sexual ContentLanguageSensitive Topics
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

Damsel

by Elana K. Arnold

Damsel is a dark feminist fairy tale in which a prince rescues a girl from a dragon, only for her to discover that the r...

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 22 challenges

Fifty Shades of Grey

by E.L. James

E.L. James' erotic romance novel, removed from public libraries across the country for explicit sexual content and BDSM ...

Sexual ContentAge Inappropriateness
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 22 challenges

Let's Talk About It

by Erika Moen & Matthew Nolan

Let's Talk About It by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan is a graphic guide to sex, relationships, and bodies for teens. One ...

Sexual ContentLGBTQ+ ThemesAge Inappropriateness
BANNED 22 challenges

Storm and Fury

by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Jennifer L. Armentrout's fantasy novel tied for #8 on ALA's 2025 most-challenged books list, reflecting how aggressively...

Sexual ContentViolenceReligious Objections
BANNED 22 challenges

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a classic American novel about wealth, obsession, and the American Dream. Cha...

Sexual ContentProfanityDrug/Alcohol Content
BANNED 22 challenges

Where the Crawdads Sing

by Delia Owens

Delia Owens' debut novel follows Kya Clark, the 'Marsh Girl' of a North Carolina coastal town, who raises herself in iso...

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 21 challenges

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

by Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer's novel about nine-year-old Oskar Schell, who lost his father in the September 11 attacks and embar...

Sexual ContentViolenceSensitive Topics
BANNED 20 challenges

A Court of Frost and Starlight

by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Frost and Starlight is a bridge novella in Sarah J. Maas's A Court of Thorns and Roses series, following Feyr...

Sexual Content
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

James and the Giant Peach

by Roald Dahl

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl is a children's fantasy about a boy who escapes his cruel aunts inside a magical...

Occult/SupernaturalProfanityDrug/Alcohol Content
BANNED 20 challenges

Kingdom of Ash

by Sarah J. Maas

Kingdom of Ash is the epic conclusion to Sarah J. Maas's Throne of Glass series, in which Aelin Galathynius fights to sa...

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 20 challenges

Lucky

by Alice Sebold

Lucky is Alice Sebold's memoir of being raped as a college freshman and the subsequent criminal trial. It has been chall...

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 20 challenges

Native Son

by Richard Wright

Richard Wright's landmark 1940 novel follows Bigger Thomas, a young Black man in 1930s Chicago whose life spirals after ...

ViolenceSexual ContentRacial Content
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

Red Hood

by Elana K. Arnold

Red Hood is a feminist retelling of Little Red Riding Hood in which Bisou Martel discovers a connection between her body...

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 20 challenges

Saga (Volume 1)

by Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples

Saga (Volume 1) by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples is an epic sci-fi/fantasy comic about star-crossed parents from wa...

Sexual ContentLGBTQ+ ThemesViolence
BANNED 20 challenges

Scars

by Cheryl Rainfield

Scars by Cheryl Rainfield is a YA novel about a teenager recovering from childhood sexual abuse who uses self-harm to co...

Sexual ContentViolenceAge Inappropriateness
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

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison's third novel follows Macon 'Milkman' Dead III on a journey through American history and his own family's ...

Sexual ContentViolenceLanguage
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 18 challenges

The Poet X

by Elizabeth Acevedo

The Poet X follows Xiomara Batista, a Dominican American teenager in Harlem who pours her frustrations with her strict r...

Sexual ContentReligious ObjectionsLanguage
BANNED 18 challenges

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston follows Janie Crawford's search for love and independence in the earl...

Sexual ContentProfanityRacial Content
BANNED 18 challenges

Tower of Dawn

by Sarah J. Maas

Tower of Dawn follows Chaol Westfall as he journeys to the southern continent seeking healing and an alliance against th...

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 18 challenges

What Girls Are Made Of

by Elana K. Arnold

What Girls Are Made Of follows sixteen-year-old Nina Faye as she searches for love and validation through her relationsh...

Sexual ContentLanguage
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 17 challenges

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

by Gregory Maguire

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West...

Sexual ContentViolenceOccult/Supernatural
BANNED 16 challenges

Homegoing

by Yaa Gyasi

Homegoing traces two branches of a family tree across three centuries, from 18th-century Ghana through the slave trade t...

Sexual ContentViolenceRacial Content
BANNED 16 challenges

I'll Give You the Sun

by Jandy Nelson

I'll Give You the Sun follows twins Jude and Noah, whose bond is shattered by secrets, grief, and the discovery of Noah'...

LGBTQ+ ThemesSexual ContentLanguage
BANNED 16 challenges

Man o' War

by Cory McCarthy

Man o' War follows River, a nonbinary teen and competitive swimmer, navigating gender identity, first love, and family e...

LGBTQ+ ThemesSexual Content
BANNED 16 challenges

Monday's Not Coming

by Tiffany D. Jackson

Monday's Not Coming follows Claudia, a Black teenager whose best friend Monday goes missing and no one seems to care eno...

ViolenceLanguageRacial Content
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

The Female of the Species

by Mindy McGinnis

The Female of the Species follows Alex Craft, a girl who killed the man who raped and murdered her sister, and the two c...

Sexual ContentViolenceLanguage
BANNED 16 challenges

The Infinite Moment of Us

by Lauren Myracle

The Infinite Moment of Us follows Wren and Charlie as they fall in love the summer after high school graduation, navigat...

Sexual Content
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 16 challenges

Vampire Academy

by Richelle Mead

Vampire Academy follows Rose Hathaway, a half-vampire guardian-in-training, and her best friend Lissa, a Moroi vampire p...

Sexual ContentViolenceReligious Objections
BANNED 15 challenges

l8r, g8r

by Lauren Myracle

The final book in Lauren Myracle's Internet Girls trilogy, told entirely through instant messages as three friends navig...

Sexual Content
BANNED 15 challenges

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

A novel about an aging Hollywood icon who finally tells the truth about her glamorous, scandal-filled life and the great...

Sexual ContentLGBTQ+ ContentProfanity
BANNED 15 challenges

This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story

by Kacen Callender

This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story follows Nathan Bird, a film-obsessed teen who realizes he's in love with his best fri...

LGBTQ+ ThemesSexual Content
BANNED 14 challenges

Concrete Rose

by Angie Thomas

A prequel to The Hate U Give following Maverick Carter as a 17-year-old in Garden Heights, navigating gang life, fatherh...

Drug UseViolenceSexual Content
BANNED 14 challenges

Crown of Midnight

by Sarah J. Maas

The second book in Sarah J. Maas's Throne of Glass series, following assassin Celaena Sardothien as she serves as the Ki...

ViolenceSexual Content
BANNED 14 challenges

Forever for a Year

by B. T. Gottfred

Forever for a Year follows Carolina and Trevor through the highs and lows of their first serious relationship, told in a...

Sexual ContentLanguage
BANNED 14 challenges

House of Earth and Blood

by Sarah J. Maas

House of Earth and Blood is the first book in Sarah J. Maas's Crescent City series, following half-fae Bryce Quinlan as ...

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 14 challenges

Like a Love Story

by Abdi Nazemian

Like a Love Story follows three teenagers in 1989 New York City navigating love, identity, and the AIDS crisis. It has b...

LGBTQ+ ThemesSexual Content
BANNED 14 challenges

More Happy Than Not

by Adam Silvera

More Happy Than Not follows Aaron Soto, a Bronx teenager who considers a memory-altering procedure to forget his emergin...

LGBTQ+ ThemesSexual ContentViolence
BANNED 14 challenges

Paper Towns

by John Green

John Green's novel about Quentin Jacobsen, who spends a wild night with his enigmatic neighbor Margo Roth Spiegelman bef...

Sexual ContentLanguage
BANNED 14 challenges

Regretting You

by Colleen Hoover

Colleen Hoover's novel about a mother and daughter whose relationship is torn apart by secrets after a devastating famil...

Sexual ContentLanguage
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 14 challenges

The Sun and Her Flowers

by Rupi Kaur

The Sun and Her Flowers is Rupi Kaur's second poetry collection, exploring themes of growth, ancestry, immigration, loss...

Sexual ContentLanguage
BANNED 14 challenges

The You I've Never Known

by Ellen Hopkins

The You I've Never Known follows Ariel, a teen discovering her sexual orientation while uncovering the truth about her f...

LGBTQ+ ThemesSexual ContentViolence
BANNED 14 challenges

We Are the Ants

by Shaun David Hutchinson

We Are the Ants follows Henry Denton, a teen who has been periodically abducted by aliens and is now given a choice: pre...

LGBTQ+ ThemesSexual ContentViolence
BANNED 13 challenges

Girls of Paper and Fire

by Natasha Ngan

A Malaysian-inspired fantasy about Lei, a girl chosen as one of the Demon King's Paper Girls, who falls in love with ano...

Sexual ContentLGBTQ+ ContentViolence
BANNED 13 challenges

The Almost Moon

by Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold's novel about Helen Knightly, who kills her elderly mother and then spends the next 24 hours unraveling the...

ViolenceSexual ContentSensitive Topics
BANNED 12 challenges

Everything, Everything

by Nicola Yoon

Nicola Yoon's YA novel about Madeline Whittier, a teenager with severe combined immunodeficiency who has never left her ...

Sexual ContentLGBTQ+ Content
BANNED 12 challenges

Firekeeper's Daughter

by Angeline Boulley

An Ojibwe teenager goes undercover to investigate a meth epidemic devastating her tribal community. Challenged for drug ...

Drug UseViolenceSexual Content
BANNED 12 challenges

Heir of Fire

by Sarah J. Maas

The third book in Sarah J. Maas's Throne of Glass series, where Celaena travels to a distant land to train with a Fae wa...

ViolenceSexual Content
BANNED 12 challenges

It

by Stephen King

It...

ViolenceSexual ContentProfanity
BANNED 12 challenges

Long Way Down

by Jason Reynolds

A novel-in-verse about a fifteen-year-old boy who gets in an elevator with a gun, intending to avenge his brother's murd...

ViolenceProfanity
BANNED 12 challenges

The Breakaways

by Cathy G. Johnson

A middle-grade graphic novel about Faith, who joins a soccer team and navigates friendships, crushes, and finding where ...

Sexual Content
BANNED 12 challenges

The Upside of Unrequited

by Becky Albertalli

The Upside of Unrequited follows Molly Peskin-Suso, a plus-size teen with 26 unrequited crushes, as she navigates love a...

LGBTQ+ ThemesSexual Content
BANNED 12 challenges

Throne of Glass

by Sarah J. Maas

The first book in Sarah J. Maas's bestselling series, following Celaena Sardothien, a teenage assassin summoned from a b...

ViolenceSexual Content
BANNED 11 challenges

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

by Jonathan Safran Foer

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell searches New York City for a lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, wh...

Sexual Content
BANNED 11 challenges

One of Us Is Lying

by Karen M. McManus

A YA murder mystery about five students who enter detention but only four walk out alive. Challenged for sexual content,...

Sexual ContentDrug UseProfanity
BANNED 11 challenges

The Song of Achilles

by Madeline Miller

A retelling of Homer's Iliad from the perspective of Patroclus, exploring his love affair with Achilles from boyhood to ...

Sexual ContentLGBTQ+ ContentViolence
BANNED 11 challenges

The Truth About Alice: A Novel

by Jennifer Mathieu

A small-town story told from four perspectives about how rumors destroy a teenage girl's reputation after she's accused ...

Sexual Content
BANNED 10 challenges

Almost Perfect

by Brian Katcher

Logan, a small-town Missouri football player, falls for Sage, a new girl at school, and struggles with his feelings when...

LGBTQ+ Themes
BANNED 10 challenges

As I Lay Dying

by William Faulkner

William Faulkner's novel told through 15 different narrators as the Bundren family transports their matriarch's body acr...

LanguageSexual ContentSensitive Topics
BANNED 10 challenges

Carrie

by Stephen King

Carrie...

ViolenceSexual ContentProfanity
BANNED 10 challenges

Dear Martin

by Nic Stone

After a racially-motivated incident with police, Justyce McAllister starts writing letters to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....

Race and Racism
BANNED 10 challenges

Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline

Ernest Cline's science fiction novel set in a dystopian 2045, where teenager Wade Watts hunts for an Easter egg hidden i...

Sexual ContentLanguage
BANNED 10 challenges

The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives

by Dashka Slater

The true story of two Oakland teenagers: Sasha, a nonbinary teen, and Richard, a Black teen who set Sasha's skirt on fir...

Violence
BANNED 10 challenges

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson

Stieg Larsson's international bestseller about journalist Mikael Blomkvist and hacker Lisbeth Salander investigating a d...

Sexual ContentViolenceSexual Violence
BANNED 10 challenges

The Vanishing Half

by Brit Bennett

A multigenerational saga about identical twin sisters from a small Southern Black community, one of whom secretly passes...

Sexual ContentRacial ThemesLGBTQ+ Content
BANNED 9 challenges

A Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini's second novel follows two Afghan women, Mariam and Laila, whose lives become intertwined across 30 year...

ViolenceSexual ContentSensitive Topics
BANNED 9 challenges

Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and a Dream

by H.G. Bissinger

H.G. Bissinger's nonfiction account of the 1988 season of the Permian High School Panthers football team in Odessa, Texa...

LanguageRacial Content
BANNED 9 challenges

Furyborn

by Claire Legrand

Claire Legrand's fantasy novel following two queens born 1,000 years apart: Rielle, who must prove she's the prophesied ...

Sexual ContentViolence
BANNED 9 challenges

Heart Bones

by Colleen Hoover

Colleen Hoover's novel about Beyah Grim, who escapes her difficult life to spend the summer with her estranged father on...

Sexual ContentLanguage
BANNED 9 challenges

Iron Widow

by Xiran Jay Zhao

A sci-fi reimagining of Chinese history where Zetian, a girl from a patriarchal society, pilots giant mechs to fight ali...

Sexual ContentViolenceLGBTQ+ Content
BANNED 9 challenges

The Shining

by Stephen King

The Shining...

ViolenceSexual ContentProfanity
BANNED 8 challenges

Assassination Classroom, Vol. 1

by Yusei Matsui

Assassination Classroom, Vol. 1...

Violence
BANNED 8 challenges

Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen

by Jazz Jennings

Jazz Jennings' memoir about growing up as one of the youngest publicly documented transgender children in America....

LGBTQ+ Themes
BANNED 8 challenges

Blackout

by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon

A YA anthology of six interconnected love stories set during a New York City blackout, all featuring Black teen characte...

Sexual ContentProfanityLGBTQ+ Content
BANNED 8 challenges

Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren't Complicated, I Wouldn't Be Ruby Oliver

by E. Lockhart

The fourth Ruby Oliver novel, in which Ruby navigates multiple romantic interests, college anxiety, and the aftermath of...

LGBTQ+ ThemesSexual Content
BANNED 8 challenges

The Assassin's Blade

by Sarah J. Maas

A collection of five prequel novellas to Sarah J. Maas's Throne of Glass series, following Celaena Sardothien's adventur...

ViolenceSexual Content
BANNED 8 challenges

The Cruel Prince

by Holly Black

A YA fantasy about Jude Duarte, a mortal girl raised in the treacherous High Court of Faerie, who schemes to win a place...

ViolenceSexual ContentProfanity
BANNED 8 challenges

The House in the Cerulean Sea

by TJ Klune

A cozy fantasy about Linus Baker, a caseworker for magical children, who is sent to a mysterious orphanage on an island ...

LGBTQ+ Content
BANNED 8 challenges

The Miseducation of Cameron Post

by Emily M. Danforth

Emily M. Danforth's novel about Cameron Post, a teenager in rural Montana sent to a conversion therapy camp after being ...

LGBTQ+ ContentSexual Content
BANNED 8 challenges

The Stand

by Stephen King

The Stand...

ViolenceSexual ContentProfanity
BANNED 8 challenges

The Sun Is Also a Star

by Nicola Yoon

A love story between Natasha, a Jamaican American girl facing deportation, and Daniel, a Korean American boy, over the c...

Sexual ContentProfanityRacial Themes
BANNED 8 challenges

Triangles

by Ellen Hopkins

Three women in their forties navigate crumbling marriages, midlife crises, and the realization that the lives they built...

Sexual Content
BANNED 7 challenges

Blood & Honey

by Shelby Mahurin

The sequel to Serpent & Dove, continuing the story of a witch and a witch hunter forced into marriage who must navigate ...

Sexual ContentViolenceOccult/Witchcraft
BANNED 7 challenges

Christine

by Stephen King

Christine...

ViolenceSexual ContentProfanity
BANNED 7 challenges

Fire Force, Vol. 1

by Atsushi Ohkubo

Fire Force, Vol. 1...

ViolenceSexual Content
BANNED 7 challenges

Gabi, a Girl in Pieces

by Isabel Quintero

Gabi Hernandez documents her senior year in a diary as she deals with her father's meth addiction, her best friend's pre...

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Girl in Translation

by Jean Kwok

Jean Kwok's semi-autobiographical novel about Kimberly Chang, a young girl who immigrates from Hong Kong to Brooklyn and...

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Legendborn

by Tracy Deonn

A YA fantasy where Bree Matthews discovers a secret society of Arthurian descendants at UNC Chapel Hill and uncovers her...

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Lily and Dunkin

by Donna Gephart

Alternating perspectives between Lily, a transgender girl, and Dunkin, a boy with bipolar disorder, as they form an unli...

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Memoirs of a Geisha

by Arthur Golden

Arthur Golden's novel following Chiyo Sakamoto, a young Japanese girl sold into a geisha house in 1920s Kyoto, who trans...

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Pet Sematary

by Stephen King

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Punching the Air

by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam

A novel-in-verse about Amal Shahid, a Black Muslim teenager wrongfully convicted of a crime and sent to a juvenile deten...

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Shiver

by Maggie Stiefvater

Maggie Stiefvater's novel about Grace, who has been watched by a yellow-eyed wolf for years, and Sam, who is that wolf, ...

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Stardust

by Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel about young Tristran Thorn, who ventures beyond the wall of his English village into the mag...

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The Black Flamingo

by Dean Atta

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The Weight of Blood

by Tiffany D. Jackson

A reimagining of Stephen King's Carrie set in a small Georgia town, exploring race, identity, and violence when the scho...

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White Smoke

by Tiffany D. Jackson

A YA horror novel about a biracial teen who moves into a renovated house in a gentrifying neighborhood and discovers it'...

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A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

by Jennifer L. Armentrout

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Ace of Spades

by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé's debut thriller about two Black students at an elite prep school who become targets of an anonymo...

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Dread Nation

by Justina Ireland

An alternate history where the dead rose at the Battle of Gettysburg, and Black and Indigenous children are conscripted ...

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Every Body Looking

by Candice Iloh

A novel-in-verse about a Nigerian American college freshman navigating her mother's addiction, her father's strict expec...

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Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything

by E. Lockhart

Gretchen, a shy art student, wishes she could be a fly on the wall of the boys' locker room, and her wish comes true....

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Instructions for Dancing

by Nicola Yoon

A YA novel about a girl who gains the ability to see how couples' love stories end just by touching a book, and must dec...

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Kingsbane

by Claire Legrand

The sequel to Claire Legrand's Furyborn, continuing the dual storylines of Rielle and Eliana as their fates hurtle towar...

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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...

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Loveless

by Alice Oseman

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Misery

by Stephen King

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Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe

by Preston Norton

Cliff, an overweight, bullied teen, forms an unlikely friendship with Aaron, the school's star quarterback who is secret...

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Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag

by Rob Sanders

A picture book telling the story of Harvey Milk's fight for LGBTQ+ rights and Gilbert Baker's creation of the rainbow fl...

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Queer: The Ultimate LGBTQ Guide for Teens

by Kathy Belge

A comprehensive guide for LGBTQ+ teens covering identity, coming out, relationships, health, and finding community....

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The Awakening

by Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin's 1899 novel about Edna Pontellier, a married woman in New Orleans who awakens to her own desires and indepe...

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The Belles

by Dhonielle Clayton

A YA fantasy set in a world where beauty is controlled by magical women called Belles, and one Belle discovers the dark ...

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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Taylor Jenkins Reid's novel about aging Hollywood icon Evelyn Hugo, who finally reveals the truth about her glamorous an...

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The Sky is Everywhere

by Jandy Nelson

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Ulysses

by James Joyce

James Joyce's modernist masterpiece follows Leopold Bloom through a single day in Dublin on June 16, 1904. Originally ba...

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All the Things We Do in the Dark

by Saundra Mitchell

'All the Things We Do in the Dark...

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All This Time

by Mikki Daughtry

A book by Mikki Daughtry that has been banned or challenged in 5 school districts during the 2023-2024 school year accor...

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An Abundance of Katherines

by John Green

John Green's novel about Colin Singleton, a child prodigy and serial dater of girls named Katherine, who goes on a road ...

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Ask the Passengers

by A. S. King

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Bag of Bones

by Stephen King

Stephen King's gothic novel about bestselling author Mike Noonan, who retreats to his lakeside cabin in Maine after his ...

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Beauty Queens

by Libba Bray

Libba Bray's satirical novel about teen beauty pageant contestants who survive a plane crash on a deserted island and mu...

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Brave Face: A Memoir

by Shaun David Hutchinson

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Chain Reaction

by Simone Elkeles

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

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Cujo

by Stephen King

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Dark Places

by Gillian Flynn

Gillian Flynn's thriller about Libby Day, the sole survivor of a massacre that killed her family, who begins to investig...

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Doing It!: Let's Talk About Sex

by Hannah Witton

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Dreaming in Cuban

by Cristina García

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Eliza and Her Monsters

by Francesca Zappia

A YA novel about a socially anxious teen who is secretly the creator of a wildly popular webcomic, and what happens when...

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Firestarter

by Stephen King

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Four Past Midnight

by Stephen King

A collection of four Stephen King novellas including 'The Langoliers,' 'Secret Window, Secret Garden,' 'The Library Poli...

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Grave Mercy

by Robin LaFevers

Robin LaFevers' historical fantasy about Ismae, a 17-year-old girl in medieval Brittany who escapes an abusive marriage ...

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grl2grl

by Julie Anne Peters

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House of Hollow

by Krystal Sutherland

A dark YA thriller about three glamorous sisters who went missing as children and returned... different. When the eldest...

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House of Salt and Sorrows

by Erin A. Craig

A gothic retelling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses set in a haunted seaside manor where sisters keep dying under myster...

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How to Be an Antiracist

by Ibram X. Kendi

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In Our Mothers' House

by Patricia Polacco

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Juliet Takes a Breath

by Gabby Rivera

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Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

by Mariko Tamaki

'Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me...

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Nick and Charlie

by Alice Oseman

Nick and Charlie...

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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...

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Patron Saints of Nothing

by Randy Ribay

A Filipino American teenager travels to the Philippines to investigate his cousin's murder in Duterte's war on drugs. Ch...

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Picture Perfect

by Jodi Picoult

Picture Perfect...

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Queer, There and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World

by Sarah Prager

'Queer, There and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World...

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Ramona Blue

by Julie Murphy

'Ramona Blue...

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Razorblade Tears

by S. A. Cosby

A crime thriller about two ex-convict fathers, one Black and one white, who team up to avenge the murders of their gay s...

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Red, White, and Royal Blue

by Casey McQuiston

'Red, White, and Royal Blue...

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Salem's Lot

by Stephen King

Salem's Lot...

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Shatter Me

by Tahereh Mafi

Shatter Me...

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Small Great Things

by Jodi Picoult

Small Great Things...

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Soul Eater, Vol. 1

by Atsushi Ohkubo

Soul Eater, Vol. 1...

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The Art of Racing in the Rain

by Garth Stein

'The Art of Racing in the Rain...

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The Dead Zone

by Stephen King

The Dead Zone...

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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...

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The Fountainhead

by Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand's novel about architect Howard Roark, who refuses to compromise his artistic vision despite societal pressure t...

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The Gilded Ones

by Namina Forna

A West African-inspired fantasy about Deka, a girl whose blood runs gold, marking her as impure in her village but makin...

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The Initial Insult

by Mindy McGinnis

A Poe-inspired YA thriller where a girl bricks up her former best friend in a basement wall to extract the truth about w...

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The Midnight Library

by Matt Haig

A novel about Nora Seed, who finds herself in a library between life and death where she can try out alternate versions ...

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The Music of What Happens

by Bill Konigsberg

'The Music of What Happens...

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The Notebook

by Nicholas Sparks

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When Aidan Became a Brother

by Kyle Lukoff

A picture book about Aidan, a transgender boy, who helps his parents prepare for a new baby sibling, making sure they ge...

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With the Fire on High

by Elizabeth Acevedo

Elizabeth Acevedo's novel about Emoni Santiago, a teen mother in Philadelphia who dreams of becoming a chef while juggli...

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A Madness So Discreet

by Mindy McGinnis

A historical thriller set in 1890s Boston following a young woman trapped in an insane asylum after concealing horrific ...

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A River of Royal Blood

by Amanda Joy

A North African-inspired fantasy about a princess who must kill her older sister to claim the throne, but discovers a co...

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A Spark of Light

by Jodi Picoult

A Spark of Light...

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A Walk to Remember

by Nicholas Sparks

A Walk to Remember...

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Allegedly

by Tiffany D. Jackson

'Allegedly...

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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante Series)

by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

'Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante Series)...

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Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard

by Echo Brown

'Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard...

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Blankets

by Craig Thompson

'Blankets...

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Blended

by Sharon M. Draper

'Blended...

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Boy Girl Boy

by Ron Koertge

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Boy Toy

by Barry Lyga

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Cemetery Boys

by Aiden Thomas

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City of Ghosts

by Victoria Schwab

A middle-grade fantasy about a girl who can cross into the world of the dead after a near-drowning experience, set again...

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City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments Series)

by Cassandra Clare

'City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments Series)...

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Clockwork Princess

by Cassandra Clare

'Clockwork Princess...

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Dear John

by Nicholas Sparks

Dear John...

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Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda

by Jean-Philippe Stassen

'Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda...

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Fade

by Lisa McMann

'Fade...

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Frostbite

by Richelle Mead

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Ghost Boys

by Jewel Parker Rhodes

'Ghost Boys...

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Grasshopper Jungle (Grasshopper Jungle Series)

by Andrew Smith

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Half of a Yellow Sun

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

'Half of a Yellow Sun...

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I Never

by Laura Hopper

'I Never...

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Ignite Me

by Tahereh Mafi

Ignite Me...

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Invisible Monsters

by Chuck Palahniuk

Invisible Monsters...

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Jesus Land: A Memoir

by Julia Scheeres

'Jesus Land: A Memoir...

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Little & Lion

by Brandy Colbert

'Little & Lion...

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Needful Things

by Stephen King

Needful Things...

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Odd One Out

by Nic Stone

'Odd One Out...

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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

by Stephen King

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft...

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Riot Baby

by Tochi Onyebuchi

A speculative novella about a Black woman with telekinetic powers and her incarcerated brother, spanning from the 1992 L...

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Rural Voices

by Nora Shalaway Carpenter

An anthology of stories, poems, and comics by YA authors set in rural America, featuring diverse characters including LG...

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Shadow Kiss

by Richelle Mead

Shadow Kiss...

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Sick Kids in Love

by Hannah Moskowitz

A YA romance about two chronically ill teenagers who fall in love and refuse to be defined by their conditions. Challeng...

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Sloppy Firsts (Jessica Darling Series)

by Megan McCafferty

'Sloppy Firsts (Jessica Darling Series)...

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Spin the Dawn

by Elizabeth Lim

A YA fantasy inspired by Mulan and Project Runway, where a girl disguises herself as a boy to compete in a tailoring con...

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The Eyes of the Dragon

by Stephen King

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The Fascinators

by Andrew Eliopulos

A YA novel about three teen witches in the American South, one of whom is gay and navigating his first love while their ...

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The Green Mile

by Stephen King

The Green Mile...

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The Hand on the Wall

by Maureen Johnson

The conclusion of the Truly Devious trilogy, where Stevie Bell solves both a modern murder and a 1930s kidnapping at an ...

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The Inheritance Games

by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

A YA thriller about a teenager who inherits a billionaire's fortune and must solve puzzles to figure out why, while his ...

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The Love Hypothesis

by Ali Hazelwood

A STEM romance about a biology PhD candidate who fake-dates a grumpy professor. Challenged for sexual content and profan...

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The Pact

by Jodi Picoult

The Pact...

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The Prince and the Dressmaker

by Jen Wang

'The Prince and the Dressmaker...

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The Princess Diaries

by Meg Cabot

The Princess Diaries...

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The Project

by Courtney Summers

A YA thriller about a girl whose sister has been absorbed by a charismatic cult leader, and her desperate investigation ...

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These Hollow Vows

by Lexi Ryan

A YA romantasy about a mortal girl who makes a deal with the fae to save her sister and finds herself torn between two f...

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Thinner

by Stephen King

Thinner...

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This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work

by Tiffany Jewell

'This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work...

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Vanishing Acts

by Jodi Picoult

Vanishing Acts...

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We Are Not Free

by Traci Chee

A novel told through the voices of fourteen Japanese American teenagers forcibly relocated to internment camps during Wo...

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We Free the Stars

by Hafsah Faizal

The sequel to We Hunt the Flame, an Arabian Nights-inspired fantasy about Zafira and Nasir's quest to restore magic to t...

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Yolk

by Mary H.K. Choi

'Yolk...

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A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo

by Jill Twiss

A satirical children's book created by John Oliver's writing team, featuring the pet rabbit of former Vice President Mik...

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A Pho Love Story

by Loan Le

A Vietnamese American YA romance about two teens from rival pho restaurants who fall in love. Challenged for sexual cont...

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All-American Girl

by Meg Cabot

All-American Girl...

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Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

by Louise Rennison

'Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging...

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Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation

by Ari Folman

'Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation...

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Away Laughing on a Fast Camel

by Louise Rennison

Away Laughing on a Fast Camel...

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Blood Promise

by Richelle Mead

Blood Promise...

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Dime

by E. R. Frank

'Dime...

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Dreamcatcher

by Stephen King

Dreamcatcher...

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Everywhere Babies

by Susan Meyers

'Everywhere Babies...

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Foul is Fair

by Hannah Capin

'Foul is Fair...

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Gracefully Grayson

by Ami Polonsky

'Gracefully Grayson...

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Handle with Care

by Jodi Picoult

Handle with Care...

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Heroine

by Mindy McGinnis

'Heroine...

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Infandous

by Elana K. Arnold

'Infandous...

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Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress

by Christine Baldacchino

Morris loves the tangerine dress in his classroom's dress-up center, even though other kids tell him he shouldn't wear i...

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Normal People

by Sally Rooney

'Normal People...

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Ready or Not

by Meg Cabot

'Ready or Not...

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Rick

by Alex Gino

Rick enters middle school questioning his sexual orientation after his best friend Jeff becomes increasingly aggressive ...

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Rumble

by Ellen Hopkins

'Rumble...

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Safe Haven

by Nicholas Sparks

Safe Haven...

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Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

by Becky Albertalli

'Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda...

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Skinny Dipping

by Bethany Mangle

A YA romcom about a girl who works at her family's nudist resort and falls for a new employee while keeping her home lif...

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Spinning

by Tillie Walden

'Spinning...

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Stained

by Jennifer Richard Jacobson

'Stained...

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Stella Brings the Family

by Miriam B. Schiffer

'Stella Brings the Family...

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The Best Man

by Richard Peck

'The Best Man...

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The Family Fletcher Takes Rock Island (Family Fletcher Series)

by Dana Alison Levy

'The Family Fletcher Takes Rock Island (Family Fletcher Series)...

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The Freedom Writers Diary

by Erin Gruwell

True stories from a Long Beach classroom where 'at-risk' students found their voices through writing, inspired by teache...

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The Gender Quest Workbook: A Guide for Teens and Young Adults Exploring Gender Identity

by Rylan Jay Testa

'The Gender Quest Workbook: A Guide for Teens and Young Adults Exploring Gender Identity...

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The House on Mango Street

by Sandra Cisneros

'The House on Mango Street...

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The Last Song

by Nicholas Sparks

The Last Song...

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The Magic Fish

by Trung Le Nguyen

'The Magic Fish...

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The Moon Within

by Aida Salazar

'The Moon Within...

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The Opposite of Innocent

by Sonya Sones

'The Opposite of Innocent...

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The Vincent Boys (The Vincent Boys Series)

by Abbi Glines

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Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers

by Louise Rennison

Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers...

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This Darkness Mine

by Mindy McGinnis

This Darkness Mine...

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ttyl

by Lauren Myracle

'ttyl...

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Twisted

by Laurie Halse Anderson

'Twisted...

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Unravel Me

by Tahereh Mafi

'Unravel Me...

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What We Saw

by Aaron Hartzler

'What We Saw...

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You Had Me at Hola

by Alexis Daria

A Latinx romance about two telenovela actors who fake a relationship for the press and develop real feelings. Challenged...

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10,000 Dresses

by Marcus Ewert

Every night, Bailey dreams of beautiful dresses. Every day, her family tells her she's a boy and boys don't wear dresses...

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A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl

by Tanya Lee Stone

A free-verse novel following three different teenage girls who fall for the same manipulative 'bad boy' intent on seduci...

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A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities

by Mady G.

'A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities...

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All the Bright Places

by Jennifer Niven

'All the Bright Places...

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Alma and How She Got Her Name

by Juana Martinez-Neal

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Ana on the Edge

by A. J. Sass

'Ana on the Edge...

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Autoboyography

by Christina Lauren

'Autoboyography...

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#BlackLivesMatter: Protesting Racism

by Rachael L. Thomas

'#BlackLivesMatter: Protesting Racism...

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Boy2Girl

by Terence Blacker

'Boy2Girl...

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Call Me Max (Max and Friends Series)

by Kyle Lukoff

A picture book about Max, a transgender boy, who tells his teacher and classmates his real name and finds acceptance.'Ca...

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Collateral

by Ellen Hopkins

'Collateral...

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Dead Until Dark

by Charlaine Harris

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Draw Me a Star

by Eric Carle

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Dreamers

by Yuyi Morales

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Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music

by Margarita Engle

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Early Sunday Morning

by Denene Millner

'Early Sunday Morning...

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Encounter

by Brittany Luby

'Encounter...

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Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story

by Kevin Noble Maillard

'Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story...

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GLBTQ*: The Survival Guide for Queer & Questioning Teens

by Kelly Huegel

'GLBTQ*: The Survival Guide for Queer & Questioning Teens...

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Graceling (Graceling Realm Series)

by Kristin Cashore

'Graceling (Graceling Realm Series)...

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Grit

by Gillian French

'Grit...

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Hear These Voices: Youth at the Edge of the Millennium

by Anthony Allison

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I'll Be the One

by Lyla Lee

'I'll Be the One...

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Indian No More

by Charlene Willing McManis

'Indian No More...

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Islandborn

by Junot Díaz

'Islandborn...

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It Ends With Us

by Colleen Hoover

'It Ends With Us...

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It Feels Good To Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity

by Theresa Thorn

'It Feels Good To Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity...

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Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World

by Ashley Herring Blake

'Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World...

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Jacob's New Dress

by Sarah Hoffman

Jacob loves playing dress-up and wants to wear a dress to school. With his mother's support, he does.'Jacob's New Dress...

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Jasmine Toguchi, Flamingo Keeper (Jasmine Toguchi Series)

by Debbi Michiko Florence

'Jasmine Toguchi, Flamingo Keeper (Jasmine Toguchi Series)...

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Julián Is a Mermaid

by Jessica Love

'Julián Is a Mermaid...

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Julián Is a Mermaid (Julián Series)

by Jessica Love

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King and the Dragonflies

by Kacen Callender

'King and the Dragonflies...

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Leah on the Offbeat

by Becky Albertalli

'Leah on the Offbeat...

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Light It Up

by Kekla Magoon

'Light It Up...

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Living Proud! Coming Out and Seeking Support (Living Proud! Growing Up Lgbtq)

by Robert Rodi

'Living Proud! Coming Out and Seeking Support (Living Proud! Growing Up Lgbtq)...

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Lubna and Pebble

by Wendy Meddour

'Lubna and Pebble...

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Lush

by Natasha Friend

'Lush...

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Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match (Marisol McDonald Series)

by Monica Brown

'Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match (Marisol McDonald Series)...

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Message in a Bottle

by Nicholas Sparks

Message in a Bottle...

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My Friend Dahmer

by Derf Backderf

'My Friend Dahmer...

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My Princess Boy

by Cheryl Kilodavis

A mother's true story about her young son who loves pink, sparkly things and dressing up as a princess.'Kilodavis wrote ...

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Nights in Rodanthe

by Nicholas Sparks

Nights in Rodanthe...

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Niño Wrestles the World (Niño Series)

by Yuyi Morales

'Niño Wrestles the World (Niño Series)...

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Not My Problem

by Ciara Smyth

'Not My Problem...

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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

by Roxane Gay

'Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture...

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One Green Apple

by Eve Bunting

'One Green Apple...

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Pet

by Akwaeke Emezi

'Pet...

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Pink!

by Lynne Rickards

'Pink!...

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Pink Is for Boys

by Robb Pearlman

'Pink Is for Boys...

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Race and Policing in Modern America

by Duchess Harris

'Race and Policing in Modern America...

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Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

by Javaka Steptoe

'Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat...

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Rainbow Boys (Rainbow Trilogy Series)

by Alex Sanchez

'Rainbow Boys (Rainbow Trilogy Series)...

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Sex is a Funny Word: A Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU

by Cory Silverberg

'Sex is a Funny Word: A Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU...

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Sex Plus: Learning, Loving, and Enjoying Your Body

by Laci Green

'Sex Plus: Learning, Loving, and Enjoying Your Body...

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Sing a Song: How "Lift Every Voice and Sing" Inspired Generations

by Kelly Starling Lyons

'Sing a Song: How 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' Inspired Generations...

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Sloppy Firsts

by Megan McCafferty

'Sloppy Firsts...

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Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place

by Jackson Bird

'Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place...

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Sulwe

by Lupita Nyong'o

'Sulwe...

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The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person

by Frederick Joseph

'The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person...

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The God of Small Things

by Arundhati Roy

'The God of Small Things...

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The House of the Spirits

by Isabel Allende

'The House of the Spirits...

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The Kingdom of Little Wounds

by Susann Cokal

'The Kingdom of Little Wounds...

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The Lucky One

by Nicholas Sparks

The Lucky One...

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The Name Jar

by Yangsook Choi

'The Name Jar...

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The Pants Project

by Cat Clarke

'The Pants Project...

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The Stonewall Riots: Coming Out in the Street

by Gayle E. Pitman

'The Stonewall Riots: Coming Out in the Street...

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This Day in June

by Gayle E. Pitman

A picture book celebrating a Pride parade with rhyming text and colorful illustrations of diverse participants.'Pitman's...

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This Is My America

by Kim Johnson

'This Is My America...

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To Night Owl from Dogfish

by Holly Goldberg Sloan

'To Night Owl from Dogfish...

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Trans+: Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You

by Kathryn Gonzales

'Trans+: Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You...

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Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy

by Emmanuel Acho

'Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy...

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We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga

by Traci Sorell

'We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga...

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Where I End and You Begin

by Preston Norton

'Where I End and You Begin...

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Worm Loves Worm

by J.J. Austrian

Two worms fall in love and want to get married, but their friends insist on assigning traditional wedding roles. The wor...

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14 Cows for America

by Carmen Agra Deedy

A New York Times bestselling picture book that recounts the true story of a Maasai village in Kenya that gave 14 sacred ...

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A Case of Sense

by Songju Ma Daemicke

'A Case of Sense...

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A Certain Slant of Light

by Laura Whitcomb

A paranormal romance about Helen, a ghost who has haunted the world for 130 years, and James, a spirit possessing the bo...

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A Day's Work

by Eve Bunting

'A Day's Work...

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A Dog Named Haku: A Holiday Story from Nepal

by Margarita Engle

'A Dog Named Haku: A Holiday Story from Nepal...

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A Dream Come True: Coming to America from Vietnam-1975

by M. J. Cosson

'A Dream Come True: Coming to America from Vietnam-1975...

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A Family Is a Family Is a Family

by Sara O'Leary

A children's book celebrating diverse family structures through the innocent voices of children in a classroom discussio...

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A Handful of Stars

by Cynthia Lord

This middle-grade novel follows twelve-year-old Lily, who lives with her grandparents above their general store in rural...

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A Little Piece of Ground

by Elizabeth Laird

This young adult novel follows twelve-year-old Karim Aboudi and his family trapped in their Ramallah home during a stric...

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A Long Pitch Home

by Natalie Dias Lorenzi

This middle-grade novel follows ten-year-old Bilal, a Pakistani Muslim boy who moves to Virginia with his family while h...

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A Peacock Among Pigeons

by Tyler Curry

'A Peacock Among Pigeons...

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A Storm Called Katrina

by Myron Uhlberg

This children's book tells the story of ten-year-old Louis Daniel and his African American family living in New Orleans'...

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A Sweet Smell of Roses

by Angela Johnson

'A Sweet Smell of Roses...

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Abuela

by Arthur Dorros

'Abuela...

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All Around Us

by Xelena Gonzalez

'All Around Us...

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Alt Ed

by Catherine Atkins

'Alt Ed...

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Amina's Voice (Amina's Voice Series)

by Hena Kahn

'Amina's Voice (Amina's Voice Series)...

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And Still the Turtle Watched

by Sheila MacGill-Callahan

'And Still the Turtle Watched...

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Antiracist Baby

by Ibram X. Kendi

'Antiracist Baby...

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Any Small Goodness: A Novel of the Barrio

by Tony Johnston

'Any Small Goodness: A Novel of the Barrio...

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Ashes to Asheville

by Sarah Dooley

'Ashes to Asheville...

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At the Mountain's Base

by Traci Sorell

'At the Mountain's Base...

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Awakened (House of Night Series)

by P. C. Cast

'Awakened (House of Night Series)...

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Bait

by Alex Sanchez

A young adult novel about Diego, a Latino teen dealing with complex emotions about his past abuse while navigating quest...

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Barbed Wire Baseball: How One Man Brought Hope to the Japanese Internment Camps of WWII

by Marissa Moss

'Barbed Wire Baseball: How One Man Brought Hope to the Japanese Internment Camps of WWII...

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Baseball Saved Us

by Ken Mochizuki

A children's picture book inspired by actual events at Japanese American internment camps during World War II. The story...

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Beartown

by Fredrik Backman

'Beartown...

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Before She Was Harriet

by Lesa Cline-Ransome

'Before She Was Harriet...

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Beneath a Meth Moon: An Elegy

by Jacqueline Woodson

'Beneath a Meth Moon: An Elegy...

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Betrayed (House of Night Series)

by P. C. Cast

'Betrayed (House of Night Series)...

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Better Nate Than Ever

by Tim Federle

'Better Nate Than Ever...

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Between Us and Abuela: A Family Story from the Border

by Mitali Perkins

'Between Us and Abuela: A Family Story from the Border...

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Big Bob, Little Bob

by James Howe

'Big Bob, Little Bob...

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Big Red Lollipop

by Rukhsana Khan

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Black Brother, Black Brother

by Jewell Parker Rhodes

'Black Brother, Black Brother...

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Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America

by Ibi Zoboi

'Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America...

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Black Frontiers: A History of African American Heroes in the Old West

by Lillian Schlissel

'Black Frontiers: A History of African American Heroes in the Old West...

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Black Lives Matter: From a Moment to a Movement

by Laurie Collier Hillstrom

'Black Lives Matter: From a Moment to a Movement...

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Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the Afronet to Black Lives Matter

by Charlton D. McIlwain

'Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the Afronet to Black Lives Matter...

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Blood Water Paint

by Joy McCullough

'Blood Water Paint...

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Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope

by Jodie Patterson

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Both Can Be True

by Jules Machias

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Bowery Girl

by Kim Taylor Blakemore

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Brave (Berrybrook Middle School Series)

by Svetlana Chmakova

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Brave Leaders and Activists

by J. P. Miller

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Brother Eagle, Sister Sky

by Chief Seattle

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Bumped

by Megan McCafferty

'Bumped...

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Call Me Max

by Kyle Lukoff

A picture book about Max, a transgender boy, who tells his teacher and classmates his real name and finds acceptance.'Ca...

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Calvin

by J. R. Ford

'Calvin...

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Carter Reads the Newspaper

by Deborah Hopkinson

'Carter Reads the Newspaper...

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Celebrate Your Body 2: The Ultimate Puberty Book for Preteen and Teen Girls

by Carrie Leff

'Celebrate Your Body 2: The Ultimate Puberty Book for Preteen and Teen Girls...

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Celebrating Different Beliefs

by Steffi Cavell-Clarke

'Celebrating Different Beliefs...

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Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa

by Veronica Chambers

'Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa...

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Charmed

by Carrie Mac

'Charmed...

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Chik Chak Shabbat

by Mara Rockliff

'Chik Chak Shabbat...

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Chosen

by P. C. Cast

'Chosen...

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Chosen (House of Night Series)

by P. C. Cast

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City of Thieves

by David Benioff

'City of Thieves...

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Climbing Lincoln's Steps: The African American Journey

by Suzanne Slade

'Climbing Lincoln's Steps: The African American Journey...

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Coolies

by Yin

'Coolies...

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Cow on the Town: Practicing the Ow Sound

by Isabella Garcia

'Cow on the Town: Practicing the Ow Sound...

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Crazy Horse's Vision

by Joseph Bruchac

'Crazy Horse's Vision...

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Cross My Heart (Cross My Heart Series)

by Sasha Gould

'Cross My Heart (Cross My Heart Series)...

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Dad, Jackie, and Me

by Myron Uhlberg

'Dad, Jackie, and Me...

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Daddy, Papa, and Me

by Lesléa Newman

A picture book celebrating same-gender parenting, showing a young child's daily activities and loving relationship with ...

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Darius the Great Deserves Better

by Adib Khorram

'Darius the Great Deserves Better...

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Dash (Dogs of World War II Series)

by Kirby Larson

'Dash (Dogs of World War II Series)...

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Date Rape (At Issue)

by Christine Watkins

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Day of the Dead

by Tony Johnston

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Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse Series)

by Charlaine Harris

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Dear Juno

by Soyung Pak

'Dear Juno...

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Destined (House of Night Series)

by P. C. Cast

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Did I Mention I Need You? (DIMILY Series)

by Estelle Maskame

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Different Kinds of Fruit

by Kyle Lukoff

'Different Kinds of Fruit...

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Dim Sum for Everyone!

by Grace Lin

'Dim Sum for Everyone!...

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Dope Sick

by Walter Dean Myers

'Dope Sick...

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Dumpling Soup

by Jama Kim Rattigan

'Dumpling Soup...

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Eagle Feather

by Clyde Robert Bulla

'Eagle Feather...

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Eagle Song

by Joseph Bruchac

'Eagle Song...

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Embrace

by Jessica Shirvington

'Embrace...

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Empty

by K. M. Walton

'Empty...

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Exit, Pursued by a Bear

by E. K. Johnston

'Exit, Pursued by a Bear...

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Extra Credit

by Andrew Clements

'Extra Credit...

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Fable

by Adrienne Young

A fantasy adventure following seventeen-year-old Fable, a skilled gem diver surviving alone on a remote island after bei...

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Fangirl

by Rainbow Rowell

'Fangirl...

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Fates and Furies

by Lauren Groff

'Fates and Furies...

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Fatty Legs: A True Story

by Christy Jordan-Fenton

'Fatty Legs: A True Story...

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Feed

by M. T. Anderson

'Feed...

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Festival of Colors

by Surishtha Sehgal

'Festival of Colors...

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Finding Cinderella

by Colleen Hoover

'Finding Cinderella...

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Flowers in the Attic

by V.C. Andrews

'Flowers in the Attic...

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Flying the Dragon

by Natalie Dias Lorenzi

'Flying the Dragon...

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Four Feet, Two Sandals

by Karen Lynn Williams

'Four Feet, Two Sandals...

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Frankie & Bug

by Gayle Forman

'Frankie & Bug...

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Fred Gets Dressed

by Peter Brown

'Fred Gets Dressed...

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From Blood and Ash

by Jennifer L. Armentrout

'From Blood and Ash...

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Gaby, Lost and Found

by Angela Cervantes

A middle-grade novel about Gaby, a Cuban American girl passionate about animal rescue who dreams of becoming a veterinar...

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Girl in Pieces

by Kathleen Glasgow

'Girl in Pieces...

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Girls Like Us (2019)

by Cristina Alger

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Going Down Home with Daddy

by Kelly Starling Lyons

This Caldecott Honor-winning picture book celebrates Black family traditions as young Lil Alan joins his extended family...

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Gone Girl

by Gillian Flynn

'Gone Girl...

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Gossip Girl: A Novel by Cecily von Ziegesar (Gossip Girl Series)

by Cecily von Ziegesar

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Graceling

by Kristin Cashore

'Graceling...

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Grandfather Tang's Story

by Ann Tompert

'Grandfather Tang's Story...

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Grandmama's Pride

by Becky Birtha

'Grandmama's Pride...

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Ground Zero

by Alan Gratz

'Ground Zero...

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Guyaholic

by Carolyn Mackler

'Guyaholic...

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Hachiko: The True Story of a Loyal Dog

by Pamela S. Turner

'Hachiko: The True Story of a Loyal Dog...

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Henry Aaron's Dream

by Matt Tavares

'Henry Aaron's Dream...

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Hiawatha and the Peacemaker

by Robbie Robertson

'Hiawatha and the Peacemaker...

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Hidden (House of Night Series)

by P. C. Cast

'Hidden (House of Night Series)...

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Home at Last

by Susan Middleton Elya

'Home at Last...

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House of Sky and Breath (Crescent City Series)

by Sarah J. Maas

'House of Sky and Breath (Crescent City Series)...

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How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater (Edward Zanni Series)

by Marc Acito

'How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater (Edward Zanni Series)...

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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

by Roxane Gay

'Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body...

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Hunted (House of Night Series)

by P. C. Cast

'Hunted (House of Night Series)...

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Hush! A Thai Lullaby

by Minfong Ho

'Hush! A Thai Lullaby...

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I Am Alfonso Jones

by Tony Medina

'I Am Alfonso Jones...

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I See the Sun in Afghanistan

by Dedie King

'I See the Sun in Afghanistan...

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Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck

by Adam Cohen

'Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck...

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Is He a Girl?

by Louis Sachar

'Is He a Girl?...

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It Ain't So Awful, Falafel

by Firoozeh Dumas

'It Ain't So Awful, Falafel...

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It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way

by Kyo Maclear

'It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way...

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Joshua and the City

by Joseph F. Girzone

'Joshua and the City...

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Juana & Lucas (Juana and Lucas Series)

by Juana Medina

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Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

by Jennifer L. Armentrout

'Kingdom of Flesh and Fire...

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Knots on a Counting Rope

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