Banned Books Week 2020 : Top 10 Challenged Books of 2019


  • Richardson, Justin
    And Tango makes three
    Summary:At New York City’s Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches.


  • Herthel, Jessica
    I am Jazz
    Summary:Presents the story of a transgender child who traces her early awareness that she is a girl in spite of male anatomy and the acceptance she finds through a wise doctor who explains her natural transgender status.


  • Gino, Alex
    George
    Summary:"When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she’s not a boy. She knows she’s a girl. George thinks she’ll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their class play is going to be Charlotte’s Web. George really, really, REALLY wants to play Charlotte. But the teacher says she can’t even try out for the part . . . because she’s a boy. With the help of her best friend, Kelly, George comes up with a plan. Not just so she can be Charlotte — but so everyone can know who she is, once and for all" —


  • Silverberg, Cory
    Sex is a funny word
    Summary:"A comic book for kids that includes children and families of all makeups, orientations, and gender identies, Sex Is a Funny Word is an essential resource about bodies, gender, and sexuality for children ages 8 to 10 as well as their parents and caregivers. Much more than the "facts of life" or "the birds and the bees," Sex Is a Funny Word opens up conversations between young people and their caregivers in a way that allows adults to convey their values and beliefs while providing information about boundaries, safety, and joy. The eagerly anticipated follow up to Lambda-nominated What Makes a Baby, from sex educator Cory Silverberg and artist Fiona Smyth, Sex Is a Funny Word reimagines "sex talk" for the twenty-first century."–


  • Kuklin, Susan
    Beyond magenta : transgender teens speak out
    Summary:"Author and photographer Susan Kuklin met and interviewed six transgender or gender-neutral young adults and used her considerable skills to represent them thoughtfully and respectfully before, during, and after their personal acknowledgment of gender preference. Portraits, family photographs, and candid images grace the pages, augmenting the emotional and physical journey each youth has taken. Each honest discussion and disclosure, whether joyful or heartbreaking, is completely different from the other because of family dynamics, living situations, gender, and the transition these teens make in recognition of their true selves." — Amazon.com, viewed February 12, 2014.


  • Atwood, Margaret
    The handmaid’s tale
    Summary:Set in a future society that has reverted to, and gone beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans, this story is told through the eyes of Offred, a so-called handmaid. While her job as a surrogate mother to a sterile marriage conveys an elevated status, she longs to escape.


  • Rowling, J. K.
    Harry Potter and the sorcerer’s stone
    Summary:Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches.


  • Telgemeier, Raina.
    Drama
    Summary:Callie rides an emotional roller coaster while serving on the stage crew for a middle school production of Moon over Mississippi as various relationships start and end, and others never quite get going.


  • Twiss, Jill
    Last week tonight with John Oliver presents a day in the life of Marlon Bundo
    Summary:"Meet Marlon Bundo, a lonely bunny who lives at the Naval Observatory with his Grandpa, the Vice President of the United States. But on this Very Special Day, Marlon’s life is about to change forever …"–Front dust jacket flap.


  • Haack, Daniel
    Prince & knight
    Summary:A prince and a knight in shining armor find true love in each other’s embrace after fighting a dragon together.

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    Reading for Change: Recommended Antiracism Titles for All Ages — The Booklist Reader, a service of Booklist, an American Library Association journal, has compiled lists of recommended antiracism books for different ages. The article on their site links to the titles to reviews, and also includes links to other antiracism lists and related articles and features.

    The links below link the recommended titles to the NOBLE library catalog to make it easy for you to find and request them.

    Adult Nonfiction

    Our Black sons matter : mothers talk about fears, sorrows, and hopes
    How we fight white supremacy : a field guide to Black resistance
    Writings on the wall : searching for a new equality beyond black and white
    The Toni Morrison book club
    This stops today : Eric Garner
    We were eight years in power : an American tragedy
    Between the world and me
    1919
    Rest in power : the enduring life of Trayvon Martin
    Democracy in black : how race still enslaves the American soul
    How to be an antiracist
    Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America
    When they call you a terrorist : a Black Lives Matter memoir
    Breathe : a letter to my sons
    Excessive use of force : one mother
    Citizen : an American lyric
    Me and white supremacy : combat racism, change the  world, and become a good ancestor
    Monument : poems : new and selected
    The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America

    Adult Fiction

    Sing, unburied, sing : a novel
    The water dancer : a novel
    The nickel boys : a novel
    How long
    Song of the shank : a novel
    Speaking of summer : a novel
    The impeachment of Abraham Lincoln
    An unconditional freedom : a novel of the Civil War
    Home
    Some sing, some cry
    We cast a shadow : a novel
    The deep
    Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick : stories from the Harlem Renaissance
    The seven league boots : a novel

    Books for Youth: Older Readers

    Amazons, abolitionists, and activists : a graphic history of women
    Pet
    This book is anti-racist
    All the days past, all the days to come
    Stamped : racism, antiracism, and you
    Just mercy : adapted for young adults : a true story of the fight for justice
    A phoenix first must burn
    Light it up
    Black enough : stories of being young & black in America
    Felix ever after
    The Voting Booth
    Tyler Johnson was here
    The impact of slavery in America

    Books for Youth: Middle Grade

    Woke : a young poet
    The only black girls in town
    Lifting as we climb : black women
    Blended
    Memphis, Martin, and the mountaintop : the sanitation strike of 1968
    Can I touch your hair? : poems of race, mistakes, and friendship
    For black girls like me
    From the desk of Zoe Washington
    A good kind of trouble
    Black brother, black brother
    Genesis begins again

    Books for Youth: Young Readers

    The undefeated
    Hair love
    My mommy medicine
    Intersection allies : we make room for all
    Sing a song : how Lift Every Voice and Sing inspired generations
    What is given from the heart
    Saturday
    Thank you, Omu!
    Sulwe
    I got next
    Who will you be?
    You matter
    Cool cuts
    Boonoonoonous hair!
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    Reading for Change — Recommended reading from Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association

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