This 2007 novel explores the reasons a teenage girl decided to take her own life, recorded on cassette tapes discovered by a friend. Detractors have challenged the 2007 bestseller, citing sexual references and profanity. Based on his own experiences, Alexie tells the story of a budding cartoonist growing up on a Spokane, Wash., reservation. “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie. “They weren’t really learning anything about safety in relationships.” Critics have denounced the book on social media as pornography. “I felt as a former teacher, sex education for LGBTQ+ teenagers wasn’t very good,” Dawson says on Instagram. The British author delves into sexuality and gender in her 2014 young adult nonfiction bestseller. It’s another provocative work by Hopkins, who had four books on the ALA’’s list of the top 100 banned or challenged books between 20. In this 2009 novel, Hopkins tells the story of five troubled teenagers who become involved in prostitution in different parts of the country.
“The coming of age novel has received top marks from critics and readers, but also some challenges as well in schools and libraries because it contains profanity and sexually explicit scenes,” according to the ALA. The 2018 novel tells the story of Mike Muñoz, a young biracial gay Chicano from a working-class family in Washington state. “We have been cursed,” said one librarian.Ĩ. World & Nation School librarians vilified as the ‘arm of Satan’ in book-banning warsĬonservatives vilify school librarians as “groomers and pedophiles” for stocking LGBTQ and racially themed books. At the Festival of Books in April, Thomas said books like hers are seen as dangerous because of the power they have to create change through empathy.
An Illinois school board cited inappropriate language as a reason to ban the book in 2022 other challenges cited violence and an anti-police message. The bestseller was adapted into a 2018 film by the same name. Published in 2017, this novel about a teenage girl who witnesses a police officer kill her childhood best friend was inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement. Critics objected to its sexual-leaning content. In an interview with PEN America, Curato described “ Flamer” as a book about suicide prevention. This award-winning 2020 novel explores a teenage boy’s struggle to understand and accept his sexuality while at summer camp in the 1990s. Published in 2015, the book written by an Ohio State University literature professor faced challenges in 2021 about sexual depictions in the story. A 1937 explosion that killed nearly 300 students and teachers at a Texas school provides the historical context for this YA novel, a love story about a Black boy and a Mexican American girl.
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