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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
Stamped (for kids) : racism, antiracism, and you	Sonja Cherry-Paul
Yaqui Delgado wants to kick your ass	Meg Medina
The underground girls of Kabul : in search of a hidden resistance in Afghanistan	Jenny Nordberg
LGBTQ : the survival guide for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning teens	Kelly Madrone
Staying fat for Sarah Byrnes	Chris Crutcher
The poet X : a novel	Elizabeth Acevedo
LAWN BOY.	Jonathan Evison
It's perfectly normal : a book about changing bodies, growing up, sex and sexual health	Robie H Harris
The glass castle : a memoir	Jeannette Walls
I am Ruby Bridges	Ruby Bridges
This book is anti-racist	Tiffany Jewell
Wide awake	David Levithan
Sissy : a coming-of-gender story	Jacob Tobia
Flamer	Mike Curato
Will Grayson, Will Grayson	John Green
The bluest eye	Toni Morrison
Crank	Ellen Hopkins
So you want to talk about race	Ijeoma Oluo
We are the ants	Shaun David Hutchinson
Jane against the world : Roe v. Wade and the fight for reproductive rights	Karen Blumenthal
Pride : celebrating diversity & community	Robin Stevenson
Morris Micklewhite and the tangerine dress	Christine Baldacchino
The new queer conscience	Adam Eli
Our own private universe	Robin Talley
Extremely loud & incredibly close	Jonathan Safran Foer
Empress of the world	Sara Ryan
It gets better : coming out, overcoming bullying, and creating a life worth living
They called themselves the K.K.K. : the birth of an American terrorist group	Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Black girl unlimited : the remarkable story of a teenage wizard	Echo Brown
A is for activist	Innosanto Nagara
Out of darkness	Ashley Hope Pérez
Of ice and shadows	Audrey Coulthurst
Let's talk about love	Claire Kann
The Trickster	Laurie Halse Anderson
Little legends : exceptional men in black history	Vashti Harrison
Beyond magenta : transgender teens speak out	Susan Kuklin
Looking for Alaska	John Green
If you could be mine	Sara Farizan
Not my idea : a book about whiteness	Anastasia Higginbotham
Sex : an uncensored introduction	Nikol Hasler
Little leaders : bold women in black history	Vashti Harrison
Water for elephants : a novel	Sara Gruen
All we can do is wait	Richard Lawson
Thinking out loud : on the personal, the political, the public, and the private	Anna Quindlen
What girls are made of	Elana K Arnold
The baby tree	Sophie Blackall
Sex : a book for teens : an uncensored guide to your body, sex, and safety	Nikol Hasler
Cemetery boys	Aiden Thomas
Fun home : una familia tragicómica	Alison Bechdel
Forever	Judy Blume
Chains	Laurie Halse Anderson
Caste : the origins of our discontents	Isabel Wilkerson
I know why the caged bird sings	Maya Angelou
Me and Earl and the dying girl	Jesse Andrews
The confessions of Nat Turner	William Styron
Between the world and me	Ta-Nehisi Coates
Fry bread : a Native American family story	Kevin Noble Maillard
I am not your perfect Mexican daughter	Erika L Sánchez
The red scrolls of magic	Cassandra Clare
Graceling	Kristin Cashore
It feels good to be yourself : a book about gender identity	Theresa Thorn
A raisin in the sun	Lorraine Hansberry
Sloppy firsts : a Jessica Darling novel	Megan McCafferty
Ace of spades	Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Acting out	Laurie Halse Anderson
Felix ever after	Kacen Callender
I'll give you the sun	Jandy Nelson
Lucky	Alice Sebold
Sex is a funny word : a book about bodies, feelings, and YOU	Cory Silverberg
Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe	Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Embrace	Jessica Shirvington
When the moon was ours	Anna-Marie McLemore
Melissa	Alex Gino
The Stonewall Riots : coming out in the streets	Gayle E Pitman
Monday's not coming : a novel	Tiffany D Jackson