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Young Adults are usually considered to be between 18 and 25.

Prep: A Novel

By Curtis Sittenfeld

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Fahrenheit 451

By Ray Bradbury

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Eleanor & Park

By Rainbow Rowell

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The Giver

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City of Thieves: A Novel

By David Benioff

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Between Lovers

By Eric Jerome Dickey

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Coming Out in College: The Struggle for a Queer Identity

By Robert A. Rhoades

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

By Maya Angelou

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Fallen Angels

By Walter Dean Myers

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Thirteen Reasons Why

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The Twilight Saga

By Stephenie Meye

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Unwind

By Neal Shusterman

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City of Thieves: A Novel

By David Benioff

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Articles About Banning and Challenging Books

News and Academic Sources

"‘Adults are banning books, but they’re not asking our opinions’: meet the teens of the Banned Book Club" by Adam Gabbatt (The Guardian)

"Why your kid should read banned books" By Regan McMahon (The Washington Post)

"Children's & Young Adult Literature" (ASU Library)

"‘Dangerous and Cruel’: YA Authors Say Unprecedented Book Bans Hurt Kids Most" By Andrea Marks (Rolling Stone)

"Book censors target teen fiction, says American Library Association" by Liz Bury (The Guardian)

"Banned and Burned: Banning books should be a thing of the past" by Tawney Beans (The News Record)

"Banned Books and Blockbusters" By Louis Menand (The New Yorker)

"Sex and other reasons why we ban books for young people" (The Conversation)

"Frequently Challenged Young Adult Books" (Teaching Books)

"Why YA books with diverse content are being challenged" (Bookstacked)

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