Banned &amp; Challenged Books

A documentary novel portraying industry's conditions at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Sinclair's novel prompted public outrage which led President Theodore Roosevelt to demand an official investigation. This eventually led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug laws.

25) A clockwork orange

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Burgess, Anthony

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Told through a central character, Alex, the disturbing novel creates an alarming futuristic vision of violence, high technology, and authoritarianism. A modern classic of youthful violence and social redemption set in a dismal dystopia whereby a juvenile deliquent undergoes state-sponsored psychological rehabilitation for his aberrant behavior.

26) In cold blood

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Capote, Truman

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)—and haunted its author long after he finished writing it.

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent...

27) Cat's cradle

Author

Vonnegut, Kurt

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"Vonnegut's 1963 satirical science fiction novel still manages to pack a powerfully subversive punch. The new... release offers an excellent opportunity to connect (or reconnect) with a classic text whose thematic elements (nuclear terror, the complications of science, American imperialism, global capitalism and the role of religion in public life) are remarkably relevant to our 21st-century landscape. The story line centers on a young writer's quest...

28) Women in love

Author

Lawrence, D. H

Series

Brangwen Family

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook

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Dive into a provocative coming-of-age story that challenged the vestiges of England's Edwardian-era sexual mores. A continuation of a fictional arc that D.H. Lawrence began in a previous novel, The Rainbow, Women in Love explores the romantic entanglements and love affairs of the sisters Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen.

29) I know why the caged bird sings

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Angelou, Maya

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30) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (World Digital Library Edition)

A black woman recalls the anguish of her childhood in Arkansas and her adolescence in northern slums.

Author

Twain, Mark

Series

The Adventures of Tom and Huck

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Audio Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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Introduction by George Saunders
Commentary by Thomas Perry Sergeant, Bernard DeVoto, Clifton Fadiman, T. S. Eliot, and Leo Marx

“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn,” Ernest Hemingway wrote. “It’s the best book we’ve had.” A complex masterpiece that spawned controversy right from the start (it was banished from the...

31) Bridge to Terabithia

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Paterson, Katherine

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eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.

32) The Giver

Author

Lowry, Lois

Series

Giver quartet Book 1

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33) It's perfectly normal: a book about changing bodies, growing up, sex, and sexual health

In Lois Lowry's Newbery Medal–winning classic, twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind his fragile community.

Life in the community where Jonas lives is idyllic. Designated birthmothers produce newchildren, who are assigned to appropriate family units. Citizens are assigned their partners and

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Harris, Robie H

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Provides answers to nearly every conceivable question children may have about sexuality, from conception and puberty to birth control and AIDS.

34) piano lessons can be murder

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35) Attack of the mutant / (bk. 25 Goosebumps)

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36) The curse of the mummy's tomb / (bk. 5 Goosebumps)

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Goosebumps. Original series Book 25

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Goosebumps. Original series Book 5

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37) The horror at Chiller House / (bk. 19 Goosebumps HorrorLand)

Lost in an Egyptian pyramid, twelve-year-old Gabe and his cousin Sari find they are not alone.

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Goosebumps. HorrorLand Book 19

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38) Heads, you lose! / (bk. 15 Goosebumps HorrorLand)

Andy, Sam, Jessica, Meg, Marco, and Ray are trapped by Jonathan Chiller, who expects payment for the rare HorrorLand souvenirs they have taken by playing his deadly game.

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Goosebumps. HorrorLand Book 15

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Jessica and her best friend, Ryan, find the perfect HorrorLand souvenir --a two-headed coin with mysteriously dark powers. After an unlucky flip of the coin, they find themselves in a strange land being chased down by angry guards. HorrorLand was scary but this is much worse. Will they be able to escape?

39) Why I'm afraid of bees / (bk. 17 Goosebumps)

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Goosebumps. Original series Book 17

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Gary's dream is about to come true. He's going to exchange bodies with another kid for a whole week but the new body isn't human.

40) Deep Trouble

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Goosebumps. Original series Book 19

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eBook, Kindle

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