Defending frequently challenged young adult books : a handbook for librarians and educators

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A Day No Pigs Would Die, Speak, Thirteen Reasons Why. These are some of the most beloved, and most challenged, books. Leaving controversial titles such as these out of your collection or limiting their access is not the answer to challenges. ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom reports more than 4,500 challenges to young adult literature from 2000 through 2009. This handbook gives you the information you need to defend challenged books with an i...

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ISBN:

9781442264328

Description:

xi, 231 pages ; 26 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian / by Sherman Alexie
The Alice series / by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Am I blue : coming out of silence / edition by Marion Dane Bauer
America / by E.R. Frank
A bad boy can be good for a girl / by Tanya Lee Stone
Blood and chocolate / by Annette Curtis Klause
A child called it : one child's courage to survive / by David J. Pelser
The chocolate war / by Robert Cormier
The contender / by Robert Lipsyte
Crank / by Ellen Hopkins
Daughters of Eve / by Lois Duncan
A day no pigs would die / by Robert Newton Peck
Deliver us from Evie / by M. E. Kerr
The drowning of Stephan Jones / by Bette Greene
The earth, my butt and other big round things / by Carolyn Mackler
Eleanor and Park / by Rainbow Rowell
Fallen angels / by Walter Dean Myers
The fault in our stars / by John Green
Feed / by M.T. Anderson
Forever / by Judy Blume
Geography club / by Brent Hartinger
Give a boy a gun / by Todd Strasser
The giver / by Lois Lowry
Go ask Alice / by Anonymous
Going bovine / by Libba Bray
The golden compass / by Philip Pullman
How to steal a car / by Pete Hautman
The hunger games / by Suzanne Collins
I am J / by Cris Beam
Impulse / by Ellen Hopkins
Internet girls / by Lauren Myracle
Killing Mr. Griffin / by Lois Duncan
Looking for Alaska / by John Green
Mexican white boy / by Matt de la Peña
The miseducation of Cameron Post / by emily m. danforth
Monster / by Walter Dean Myers
One fat summer / by Robert Lipsyte
The perks of being a wallflower / by Stephen Chbosky
Persepolis : the story of a childhood / by Marjane Satrapi
Push / by Sapphire
Rainbow boys / by Alex Sanchez
Speak / by Laurie Halse Anderson
Staying fat for Sarah Burns / by Chris Crutcher
Stuck in neutral / by Terry Trueman
Thirteen reasons why / by Jay Asher
This one summer / by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki
Twisted / by Laurie Halse Anderson
Two boys kissing / by David Levinthan
Unwind / by Neal Shusterman
Vegan virgin valentine / by Carolyn Mackler
We all fall down / by Robert Cormier
Whale talk / by Chris Crutcher
What my mother doesn't know / by Sonya Sones
Wintergirls / by Laurie Halse Anderson
Appendix A. Adult books that have been challenged/banned in the high school curriculum
Appendix B. Rankings of young adult books on top 100 banned/challenged books : 2000-2009
Appendix C. Rankings of young adult books on top 100 most frequently challenged books : 1990-1999
Appendix D. Resources for teaching young adults about the freedom to read
Appendix E. Professional resources : book censorship and freedom to read
Appendix F. Censorship teaching ideas
Appendix G. Free speech organizations

LCCN:

2016003280

Control Number:

3012715

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