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Banned and challenged for sexual references, profanity, violence, gambling, and underage drinking, and for its religious viewpoint
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Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
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Captain Underpants volume 1
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Series was challenged because it was perceived as encouraging disruptive behavior, while Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot was challenged for including a same-sex couple
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Unabridged.
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Unabridged.
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When George and Harold hypnotize their principal into thinking that he is the superhero Captain Underpants, he leads them to the lair of the nefarious Dr. Diaper, where they must defeat his evil robot henchmen.
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Challenged for LGBTQIA+ content, for “its effect on any young people who would read it,” and for concerns that it was sexually explicit and biased
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First edition.
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"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...
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Offensive language, religious viewpoint, unsuited for age group, and other (“profanity and atheism”)
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4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning for him. Routine, order and predictability shelter him from the messy, wider world. Then, at fifteen, Christopher's carefully constructed world falls apart when he finds his neighbor's dog, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork, and he is initially blamed for the killing.
5) Drama
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Challenged for LGBTQIA+ content and for concerns that it goes against “family values/morals”
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3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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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.
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Challenged for offensive language
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Unabridged.
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3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits--smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try"--Provided by publisher.
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Fifty shades trilogy volume 1
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Sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, and other (“poorly written,” “concerns that a group of teenagers will want to try it”). THIS IS CLEARLY AN ADULT BOOK
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[Retail ed., unabridged]
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Unabridged.
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When literature student Anastasia Steele is drafted to interview the successful young entrepreneur Christian Grey for her campus magazine, she finds him attractive, enigmatic and intimidating. Convinced their meeting went badly, she tries to put Grey out of her mind - until he happens to turn up at the out-of-town hardware store where she works part-time. Erotic, amusing, and deeply moving, the Fifty Shades Trilogy is a tale that will obsess you,...
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Violence and graphic images
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3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian house, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out,...
9) Habibi
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Nudity, sexually explicit, and unsuited for age group.
AN ADULT BOOK
AN ADULT BOOK
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"Sprawling across an epic landscape of deserts, harems, and modern industrial clutter, Habibi tells the tale of Dodola and Zam, refugee child slaves bound to each other by chance, by circumstance, and by the love that grows between them. We follow them as their lives unfold together and apart; as they struggle to make a place for themselves in a world (not unlike our own) fueled by fear, lust, and greed; and as they discover the extraordinary depth--...
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Handmaid's tale volume 1
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Banned and challenged for profanity and for “vulgarity and sexual overtones”
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First edition.
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"Margaret Atwood's best-loved novel has taken the world by storm again. Riding high on bestseller lists for months and the basis for Hulu's Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning smash hit series, The Handmaid's Tale is everywhere--and it's primed for a stunning new graphic novel adaptation. The story is iconic: In the Republic of Gilead, a Handmaid named Offred lives in the home of the Commander, to the purpose that she become pregnant with his child....
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Harry Potter (Original series) volume 1
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Entire series was banned and forbidden from discussion for referring to magic and witchcraft, for containing actual curses and spells, and for characters that use “nefarious means” to attain goals
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1st American ed.
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First illustrated edition.
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29 copies, 122 people are on the wait list.
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29 copies, 122 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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Unabridged.
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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 Witchcraft and Wizardry.
12) The hate u give
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Banned and challenged because it was deemed “anti-cop,” and for profanity, drug use, and sexual references
It's Here
Overton High - Teen Fiction
F THO
2 available
F THO
2 available
Overton High - Teen Fiction
F Tho
2 available
F Tho
2 available
It's Here
Overton High - Teen Fiction
F THO
2 available
F THO
2 available
Overton High - Teen Fiction
F Tho
2 available
F Tho
2 available
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First edition.
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Unabridged.
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Unabridged.
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Unabridged.
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Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
13) I am Jazz!
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Challenged and relocated for LGBTQIA+ content, for a transgender character, and for confronting a topic that is “sensitive, controversial, and politically charged”
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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.
14) The kite runner
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Challenged and banned because it includes sexual violence and was thought to “lead to terrorism” and “promote Islam.”
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3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present day. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy Afghan youth and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of...
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Challenged and vandalized for LGBTQIA+ content and political viewpoints, for concerns that it is “designed to pollute the morals of its readers,” and for not including a content warning.
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"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.
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Challenged for a sexually explicit scene that may lead a student to “sexual experimentation”
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Special 10th anniversary edition.
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3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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[Unabridged].
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It's Here
Overton High - Teen Audiobook
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PLA F GRE
1 available
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Unabridged.
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Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.
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Challenged for profanity, sexual explicitness, and being “disgusting and all around offensive”
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First edition.
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Unabridged.
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"Make Something Up is a compilation of 21 stories and one novella (some previously published, some not) that will disturb and delight. The absurdity of both life and death are on full display: In "Zombies," the best and brightest of a high school prep school become tragically addicted to the latest drug craze: electric shocks from cardiac defibrillators. In "Knock, Knock," a son hopes to tell one last off-color joke to a father in his final moments,...
18) Melissa's story
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Challenged, banned, restricted, and hidden to avoid controversy; for LGBTQIA+ content and a transgender character; because schools and libraries should not “put books in a child’s hand that require discussion”; for sexual references; and for conflicting with a religious
The library does not own any copies of this title.
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"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...
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Religious viewpoint, unsuited to age group (CHILDREN'S NON-FICTION), and violence
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1st ed.
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Based on a true story. After her parents are taken away by the Taliban, young Nasreen stops speaking. But as she spends time in a secret school, she slowly breaks out of her shell.
20) Persepolis
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Gambling, offensive language, political viewpoint. Additional reasons: “politically, racially, and socially offensive,” “graphic depictions”
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Contains black-and-white comic strip images in which the author shares the story of her life in Tehran, Iran, where she lived from ages six to fourteen while the country came under control of the Islamic regime.