For those interested in learning more about where and why books have been banned or challenged, this map was compiled using data from the American Library Association (ALA) and the Kids' Right to Read project. Click through and have a look!
Addie On the Inside James Howe
FIC HOW
Outspoken thirteen-year-old Addie Carle learns about love, loss, and staying true to herself as she navigates seventh grade, enjoys a visit from her grandmother, fights with her boyfriend, and endures gossip and meanness from her former best friend. (NoveList)
The Medusa Plot
(The 39 Clues; Cahills vs. Vespers, Book 1)
Gordon Korman
FIC KOR
Cahills are being kidnapped by a shadowy group known only as the Vespers. Now Amy and Dan have only days to fulfill a bizarre ransom request or their captured friends will start dying. Amy and Dan don't know what the Vespers want or how to stop them. Only one thing is clear. The Vespers are playing to win, and if they get their hands on the Clues ... the world will be their next hostage. (NoveList)
Wonde
rstruck Brian Selznick
FIC SEL
Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures. (NoveList)
Charles Joe Jackson's Guide to NOT ReadingTommy Greenwald
FIC GRE
Middle schooler Charlie Joe is proud of his success at avoiding reading, but eventually his schemes go too far. (NoveList)
The Girl is Murder
Kathryn Miller Haines
FIC HAI
In 1942 New York City, fifteen-year-old Iris grieves for her mother who committed suicide and for the loss of her life of privilege, and secretly helps her father with his detective business since he, having lost a leg at Pearl Harbor, struggles to make ends meet.
Wildwood
Colin Meloy
FIC MEL
When her baby brother is kidnapped by crows, seventh-grader Prue McKeel ventures into the forbidden Impassable Wilderness--a dangerous and magical forest in the middle of Portland, Oregon--and soon finds herself involved in a war among the various inhabitants.
COMING SOON!
Scribbling Women: True Tales from Astonishing Lives
Marthe Jocelyn
Explores the writing of women throughout history, looking at letters by Margaret Catchpole, a novel by Doris Pilkey, a cookbook by Isabella Beeton, journal entries by Sei Shonagan, and other works by women around the world.
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