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• 1984

  Orwell, George, 1903-1950,

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  Adult and Young Adult Fiction. Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Book Thief

  Zusak, Markus

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  Young Adult Fiction. Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fahrenheit 451

  Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012

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  Adult Fiction. In a future totalitarian state where books are banned and destroyed by the government, Guy Montag, a fireman in charge of burning books, meets a revolutionary schoolteacher who dares to read and a girl who tells him of a past when…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Banned Together

  Our Fight for Readers' Rights

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  Young Adult Fiction. A multi-genre, young adult anthology that spotlights the transformative power of books while equipping teens to fight for the freedom to read, featuring the voices of 15 diverse, award-winning authors and illustrators.

• Wake Now in the Fire

  Dapier, Jarrett,

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  Young Adult Graphic Novel. In this empowering graphic novel based on a true story, a group of high schoolers in Chicago work to overturn the system-wide ban of Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis. It starts as an update at one Chicago high school: copies…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Property of the Rebel Librarian

  Varnes, Allison,

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  Juvenile Fiction. Twelve-year-old June Harper, shocked when her parents go on a campaign to clear the Dogwood Middle School library of objectionable books, starts a secret banned books library in an empty locker.

• Ban This Book

  [a Novel]

  Gratz, Alan, 1972-

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  Juvenile Fiction. A fourth grader fights back when From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg is challenged by a well-meaning parent and taken off the shelves of her school library. Amy Anne is shy and soft-spoken, but…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Suggested Reading

  [a Novel]

  Connis, Dave,

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  Young Adult Fiction. After her principal bans a number of books from the school library, bibliophile student Clara joins forces with her friends to start an underground library.

• This Book Won't Burn

  Ahmed, Samira (Fiction writer),

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  Young Adult Fiction. While still coping with her parents' sudden divorce and having to start at a new school midway through her senior year, Noor and two new friends take a stand against book bans at their small-town Illinois high school.

• Not Another Banned Book

  Levy, Dana Alison,

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  Juvenile Fiction. No matter what was going on in Molly's life at home, she always had book club at school. Whether she's dealing with a death in the family or her parents' breaking the news they want to move, she is able to read a new book and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Book Comes Home

  A Banned Book's Journey

  Sanders, Rob, 1958-

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  Picture Book. When Book is removed from her cozy shelf in the library and placed in the Banned Book Closet, she wonders... Can a book still be a book without any readers?

• The Book Censor's Library

  ʻĪsá, Buthaynah,

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  Adult Fiction. The new book censor hasn't slept soundly in weeks. By day he combs through manuscripts at a government office, looking for anything that would make a book unfit to publish--allusions to queerness, unapproved religions, any mention of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

  a Novel

  Miller, Kirsten, 1973-

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  Adult Fiction. When Lula Dean, trying to rid public libraries of "pornographic" books, starts her own lending library in front of her home, Lindsay, the daughter of Lula's arch nemesis, sneaks in nightly, secretly filling it with banned books…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Answers in the Pages

  Levithan, David,

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  Juvenile Fiction. When Donovan left his copy of The Adventurers on the kitchen counter, he didn't think his mom would read it--much less have a problem with it. It's just an adventure novel about two characters trying to stop an evil genius. But…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Day the Books Disappeared

  Ho, Joanna,

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  Picture Book. Arnold didn't mean for the books to disappear--not exactly. It all started because his liked his book about airplanes best and wanted everyone else to read it, too. He couldn't understand why anybody would want to read about tomatoes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Attack of the Black Rectangles

  King, A. S. (Amy Sarig), 1970-

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  Juvenile Fiction. When sixth-grader Mac discovers several words of his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic are blacked out, he is outraged, so he, his friends, and his eccentric family set out to do something about the censorship…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Story of My Anger

  Méndez, Jasminne

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  Young Adult Fiction. Yulieta Lopez is accustomed to playing various roles: the diligent daughter, the honorable hija, the good girl who swallows the flames in her throat before they burn anyone. But the fire inside Yuli is spreading, and she can no…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Boy Like Me

  Green, Simon James,

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  Young Adult Fiction. A love story that begins in the margins... It's 1994 and thanks to Section 28, there can be no mention of gay relationships in UK schools. When a kind librarian leads Jamie to a disguised novel in the library that reflects his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Behind Five Willows

  Hur, June

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  Young Adult Fiction. A warm and romantic homage to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice set in 18th-century Korea, about a reader and a writer who secretly fight against government book banning and find themselves irresistibly drawn together. Haewon is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Banned Book Club

  Kim, Hyun Sook,

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  Young Adult Graphic Novel. College freshman Kim Hyun Sook, who seeks refuge from a totalitarian regime in the comfort of books, unexpectedly joins an underground banned book club, where the delights of discovering works of illicit literature are…Read moreRead more of this annotation