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Reports of book banning are at historic high levels. Books about LGBTQ people, people of color, and racism are being especially targeted for censorship.

Empower readers and libraries at https://uniteagainstbookbans.org/

Banned Book Week is September 18-24, learn more at https://bannedbooksweek.org/

Title	Author	Cover
Sex is a funny word : a book about bodies, feelings, and YOU	Cory Silverberg
Far from the tree : parents, children and the search for identity	Andrew Solomon
This one summer	Mariko Tamaki
If you could be mine	Sara Farizan
Who was Harriet Tubman?	Yona Zeldis McDonough
Morris Micklewhite and the tangerine dress	Christine Baldacchino
I am not your perfect Mexican daughter	Erika L Sánchez
Wide awake	David Levithan
The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness	Michelle Alexander
The kite runner	Khaled Hosseini
Little legends : exceptional men in black history	Vashti Harrison
The Trickster	Laurie Halse Anderson
Graceling	Kristin Cashore
Our own private universe	Robin Talley
Clap when you land	Elizabeth Acevedo
An indigenous peoples' history of the United States	Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
An African American and Latinx history of the United States	Paul Ortiz
Monday's not coming : a novel	Tiffany D Jackson
Sex : a book for teens : an uncensored guide to your body, sex, and safety	Nikol Hasler
Sex : an uncensored introduction	Nikol Hasler
Water for elephants : a novel	Sara Gruen
Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe	Benjamin Alire Sáenz
A is for activist	Innosanto Nagara
What girls are made of	Elana K Arnold
Pride : celebrating diversity & community	Robin Stevenson
Blended	Sharon M Draper
Panic	Sharon M Draper
Stamped (for kids) : racism, antiracism, and you	Sonja Cherry-Paul
Vampire Academy	Richelle Mead
Fry bread : a Native American family story	Kevin Noble Maillard
In the dream house : a memoir	Carmen Maria Machado
Will Grayson, Will Grayson	John Green
Citizen : an American lyric	Claudia Rankine
Embrace	Jessica Shirvington
Follow your arrow	Jessica Verdi
Fml	Shaun David Hutchinson
Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019
The cider house rules : a novel	John Irving
When they call you a terrorist : a black lives matter memoir	Patrisse Cullors
All we can do is wait	Richard Lawson
Acting out	Laurie Halse Anderson
The miseducation of Cameron Post	Emily M Danforth
Caste : the origins of our discontents	Isabel Wilkerson
They both die at the end	Adam Silvera
Let's talk about love	Claire Kann
Sloppy firsts : a Jessica Darling novel	Megan McCafferty
They called themselves the K.K.K. : the birth of an American terrorist group	Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Who is Derek Jeter?	Gail Herman
Forever	Judy Blume
Sissy : a coming-of-gender story	Jacob Tobia
Thinking out loud : on the personal, the political, the public, and the private	Anna Quindlen
We are the ants	Shaun David Hutchinson
My mixed-up berry blue summer	Jennifer Gennari
Between the world and me	Ta-Nehisi Coates
The bluest eye	Toni Morrison
All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto	George M Johnson
Yaqui Delgado wants to kick your ass	Meg Medina
I am Ruby Bridges	Ruby Bridges
The underground girls of Kabul : in search of a hidden resistance in Afghanistan	Jenny Nordberg
Beyond the gender binary	Alok Vaid-Menon
The baby tree	Sophie Blackall
The glass castle : a memoir	Jeannette Walls
Extremely loud & incredibly close	Jonathan Safran Foer
LAWN BOY.	Jonathan Evison
Out of darkness	Ashley Hope Pérez
Ace of spades	Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
It feels good to be yourself : a book about gender identity	Theresa Thorn
I'll give you the sun	Jandy Nelson
So you want to talk about race	Ijeoma Oluo
The new queer conscience	Adam Eli
Some assembly required : the not-so-secret life of a transgender teen	Arin Andrews
Cemetery boys	Aiden Thomas
I think I love you	Auriane Desombre
The handmaid's tale	Margaret Atwood
The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian	Sherman Alexie