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Books Under Threat

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/

Title	Author	Cover
Water for elephants : a novel	Sara Gruen
Wide awake	David Levithan
Empress of the world	Sara Ryan
Breathless	Jennifer Niven
Sloppy firsts : a Jessica Darling novel	Megan McCafferty
The black flamingo	Dean Atta
An African American and Latinx history of the United States	Paul Ortiz
Felix ever after	Kacen Callender
A is for activist	Innosanto Nagara
When they call you a terrorist : a black lives matter memoir	Patrisse Cullors
The Trickster	Laurie Halse Anderson
Far from the tree : parents, children and the search for identity	Andrew Solomon
Fun home : una familia tragicómica	Alison Bechdel
Sex is a funny word : a book about bodies, feelings, and YOU	Cory Silverberg
Little legends : exceptional men in black history	Vashti Harrison
I'll give you the sun	Jandy Nelson
Thinking out loud : on the personal, the political, the public, and the private	Anna Quindlen
The red scrolls of magic	Cassandra Clare
Sex : a book for teens : an uncensored guide to your body, sex, and safety	Nikol Hasler
The love & lies of Rukhsana Ali	Sabina Khan
The bluest eye	Toni Morrison
The kite runner	Khaled Hosseini
Forever	Judy Blume
Chains	Laurie Halse Anderson
It feels good to be yourself : a book about gender identity	Theresa Thorn
I am not your perfect Mexican daughter	Erika L Sánchez
This book is anti-racist	Tiffany Jewell
Beyond magenta : transgender teens speak out	Susan Kuklin
Morris Micklewhite and the tangerine dress	Christine Baldacchino
Jack of hearts (and other parts)	Lev AC Rosen
Stamped (for kids) : racism, antiracism, and you	Sonja Cherry-Paul
Sex : an uncensored introduction	Nikol Hasler
GLBTQ : the survival guide for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning teens	Kelly Madrone
They called themselves the K.K.K. : the birth of an American terrorist group	Susan Campbell Bartoletti
This book is gay	Juno Dawson
Clap when you land	Elizabeth Acevedo
Yaqui Delgado wants to kick your ass	Meg Medina
Little leaders : bold women in black history	Vashti Harrison
Monday's not coming : a novel	Tiffany D Jackson
My mixed-up berry blue summer	Jennifer Gennari
Embrace	Jessica Shirvington
The Sin-eater's confession	Ilsa J Bick
I am Ruby Bridges	Ruby Bridges
Out of darkness	Ashley Hope Pérez
Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe	Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Some assembly required : the not-so-secret life of a transgender teen	Arin Andrews
Follow your arrow	Jessica Verdi
Fry bread : a Native American family story	Kevin Noble Maillard
Fml	Shaun David Hutchinson
An indigenous peoples' history of the United States	Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
A raisin in the sun	Lorraine Hansberry
Speak	Laurie Halse Anderson
Our own private universe	Robin Talley
The poet X : a novel	Elizabeth Acevedo
Caste : the origins of our discontents	Isabel Wilkerson
Panic	Sharon M Draper
Citizen : an American lyric	Claudia Rankine
If you could be mine	Sara Farizan
Ace of spades	Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
The baby tree	Sophie Blackall
What girls are made of	Elana K Arnold
Pride : celebrating diversity & community	Robin Stevenson
I think I love you	Auriane Desombre
We are the ants	Shaun David Hutchinson
It gets better : coming out, overcoming bullying, and creating a life worth living
Gender queer : a memoir	Maia Kobabe
New kid	Jerry Craft
Blended	Sharon M Draper
LGBTQ : the survival guide for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning teens	Kelly Madrone
Acting out	Laurie Halse Anderson
Beyond the gender binary	Alok Vaid-Menon
The cider house rules : a novel	John Irving
When the moon was ours	Anna-Marie McLemore
Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019
Between the world and me	Ta-Nehisi Coates