What follows is a gut-wrenching chain of events that alters all Starr holds dear. Caught between her rough, predominantly black neighborhood and the “proper,” predominantly white prep school she attends, Starr has learned how to “speak with two different voices and only say certain things around certain people.” This precarious balance is broken when Starr witnesses the shooting of her (unarmed) childhood friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter lives a life many African American teenagers can relate to: a life of double consciousness. High School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 453 pp. A poignant, potent, and provocative historical drama steeped in well-researched factual details. This novel weaves in the forces that led up to the 1937 New London school explosion, a tragedy rooted in the era's violent abuse against minorities. Two teens, Mexican American Naomi and African American Wash, fall in love and struggle to keep their relationship secret in racist 1936 east Texas. Here’s how the Horn Book reviewed 2021's most challenged children’s and young adult books: Reasons: Banned and challenged for LGBTQIA+ content and because it was considered to be sexually explicit. Reasons: Banned, challenged, relocated, and restricted for providing sex education and LGBTQIA+ content Reasons: Banned and challenged because it depicts child sexual abuse and was considered sexually explicit Reasons: Banned and challenged because it was considered sexually explicit and degrading to women Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews.Reasons: Banned and challenged for profanity, sexual references, and use of a derogatory term The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie.Reasons: Banned and challenged for profanity and violence and because it was thought to promote an anti-police message and indoctrination of a social agenda Reasons: Banned, challenged, and restricted for depictions of abuse and because it was considered to be sexually explicit Reasons: Banned and challenged for LGBTQIA+ content and profanity and because it was considered to be sexually explicit Reasons: Banned and challenged for LGBTQIA+ content and because it was considered to be sexually explicit Reasons: Banned, challenged, and restricted for LGBTQIA+ content and because it was considered to have sexually explicit images Pettinelli's " Field Notes: The Day the Book Banners Came for Us" (from the new September/October 2022 Horn Book Magazine) and Pat Scales's " What Makes a Good Banned Book?" (from the September/October 2009 Horn Book Magazine).īased on 729 challenges (and with " total book challenges in 2022 set to exceed 2021 record"), here are the top ten most challenged books of 2021. Look for Banned Books Week events in your area to get involved. Two years ago ALA also released a list of the Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books of the Decade. We compile lists of challenged books in order to inform the public about censorship efforts that affect libraries and schools.” From The American Library Association’s website: “ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) receives reports from libraries, schools, and the media on attempts to ban books in communities across the country.
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