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• Flamer

  Curato, Mike

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  #10 most banned book for 2024. This graphic novel poignantly illustrates and captures the struggle of a teen grasping with their sexuality.

• Sold

  McCormick, Patricia, 1956-

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  #8 (tie) most banned book for 2024. A fictional account that captures the horrific realities of sexual slavery.

• Crank

  Hopkins, Ellen,

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  #8 (tie) most banned book for 2024. Verse novel about a teenager falling into addiction.

• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

  a Novel

  Andrews, Jesse

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  #6 (tie) most banned book for 2024. This book (gasp) doesn't pretend that teens aren't often sexually active or swear.

• Looking for Alaska

  Green, John, 1977-

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  #6 (tie) most banned book for 2024. A moving novel that won the Printz Medal for excellence in young adult literature with a powerful message.

• Tricks

  Hopkins, Ellen

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  #5 most banned book for 2024. Author Ellen Hopkins made the list twice this year, this time with a book that explores topic of teen prostitution.

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  Chbosky, Steve

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  #3 (tie) most banned book for 2024. Realistically depicting common teen experiences in fiction as this book does is something that people like to ban.

• The Bluest Eye

  Morrison, Toni

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  #3 (tie) most banned book for 2024. Nobel prize-winning author, Toni Morrison writes this emotionally challenging, beautiful work of literature.

• Gender Queer

  a Memoir

  Kobabe, Maia,

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  #2 most banned book for 2024. This touching book helped give me such an understanding and window into queer experience.

• All Boys Aren't Blue

  a Memoir-manifesto

  Johnson, George M. (George Matthew), 1985-

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  #1 most banned book for 2024. Which just goes to show that a beautifully written activist memoir bravely exploring and celebrating intersectional identities of race and sexuality can get you banned by people who would prefer to ignore these issues.…Read moreRead more of this annotation