Christina, who attends Fashion Institute of Technology, is pictured shopping for clothes, proudly displaying a school project and hugging her mother. In photographs, readers see Nat, who attends a performing-arts high school in New York City and uses the personal gender pronouns them and they, carrying their violin on New York’s High Line. Their stories are told largely in the teens’ own words, with only a few italicized interpolations to clarify or contextualize a point or to describe a facial expression or inflection readers cannot see or hear. They hear from teens who identify fully as female or male, teens who identify as neither male nor female, and one teen who is intersex. In verbal and, when the subjects have given permission, visual profiles, readers meet transgender teens with a wide range of backgrounds and experiences. Reasons: Provides sexual education and LGBTQ+ contentġ0.Kuklin ( No Choirboy, 2008, etc.) brings her intimate, compassionate and respectful lens to the stories of six transgender young people. This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson – Banned, challenged, relocated, and restricted Reasons: Depicts child sexual abuse, considered sexually explicitĩ. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison – Banned and challenged Reasons: Considered sexually explicit and degrading to womenĨ. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews – Banned and challenged Reasons: Profanity, sexual references, and use of a derogatory termħ. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie – Banned and challenged Reasons: Profanity, violence, thought to promote an anti-police message and indoctrination of a social agendaĦ.
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas – Banned and challenged Reasons: Depictions of abuses, considered to be sexually explicitĥ.
Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez – Banned, challenged, and restricted
Reasons: LGBTQ+ content, profanity, and because it was considered to be sexually explicitĤ. Reasons: LGBTQ+ content, considered to be sexually explicitģ. Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison – Banned and challenged Reasons: LGBTQ+ content, considered to have sexually explicit imagesĢ. Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe – Banned, challenged, and restricted Here were the most frequently challenged books in 2021, according to the ALA:ġ. In 2021, there were 729 attempts to censor books, targeting 1,597 titles, the ALA. 31 of this year, there have been 681 attempts to ban or restrict books, targeting 1,651 titles.
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