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High School Teenagers

Feared Texts for Teenagers


The Handmaid's Tale

By Margaret Atwood

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When Jeff Comes Home

By Catherine Atkins

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Alt Ed

By Catherine Atkins

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Lessons from a Dead Girl

By Jo Knowles

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Shade's Children

By Garth Nix

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We All Fall Down

By Robert Cormier

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Some Girls Are: A Novel

By Courtney Summers

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Nineteen Minutes: A Novel

By Jodi Picoult

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In the Time of the Butterflies

By Julia Alvarez

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Fat Kid Rules the World

By K. L. Going

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Forever . . .

By Judy Blume (

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Crank

By Ellen Hopkins

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I Was a Teenage Fairy

By Francesca Lia Block

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Get Well Soon

By Julie Halpern

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Annie on My Mind

By Nancy Garden

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Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence

By Marion Dane Bauer (Editor)

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In the Beginning

By Isaac Asimov

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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

By Marjane Satrapi

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Lord of the Flies

By William Golding (1911 - 1993)

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Population, Evolution, and Birth Control

By Author

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Bear Town: A Novel

By Fredrik Backman

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Kafka on the Shore

By Haruki Murakami

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The Fault in Our Stars

By John Green

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Looking for Alaska

By John Green

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Two Boys Kissing

By David Levithan

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Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out

By Susan Kuklin

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The Call of the Wild

By Jack London

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Whale Talk

By Chris Crutcher (

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

By Mark Twain

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Twisted

By Laurie Halse Anderson

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Paper Towns

By John Green

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Monster

By Walter Dean Myers

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Articles About Banning and Challenging Books

News and Academic Sources

"Banned Books 2020 - Beyond Magena: Transgender Teens Speak Out" (Marshall Libraries)
"'Some Girls Are'...A Success Story for Banned Book Week" (Free-for-All)
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"'The Fault In Our Stars' Banned by Californian Schools" (Her)
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