Defending Frequently Challenged Young Adult Books
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Defending Frequently Challenged Young Adult Books

A Handbook for Librarians and Educators

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eBook - ePub

Defending Frequently Challenged Young Adult Books

A Handbook for Librarians and Educators

About this book

A Day No Pigs Would Die, Speak, Thirteen Reasons Why These are some of the most beloved, and most challenged, books. Leaving controversial titles such as these out of your collection or limiting their access is not the answer to challenges.

While ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom reports more than 4,500 challenges to young adult literature from 2000 through 2009. This authoritative handbook gives you the information you need to defend challenged books with an informed response and ensure free access to young book lovers. With a profile of each book that includes its plot and characters, related materials and published reviews, awards and prizes, and Web and audiovisual resources, you will be prepared to answer even the toughest attacks.

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. 1 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
  3. 2 The Alice Series
  4. 3 Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence
  5. 4 America
  6. 5 A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl
  7. 6 Blood and Chocolate
  8. 7 A Child Called “It”: One Child’s Courage to Survive
  9. 8 The Chocolate War
  10. 9 The Contender
  11. 10 Crank
  12. 11 Daughters of Eve
  13. 12 A Day No Pigs Would Die
  14. 13 Deliver Us from Evie
  15. 14 The Drowning of Stephan Jones
  16. 15 The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
  17. 16 Eleanor & Park
  18. 17 Fallen Angels
  19. 18 The Fault in Our Stars
  20. 19 Feed
  21. 20 Forever
  22. 21 Geography Club
  23. 22 Give a Boy a Gun
  24. 23 The Giver
  25. 24 Go Ask Alice
  26. 25 Going Bovine
  27. 26 The Golden Compass
  28. 27 How to Steal a Car
  29. 28 The Hunger Games
  30. 29 I Am J
  31. 30 Impulse
  32. 31 The Internet Girls Series
  33. 32 Killing Mr. Griffin
  34. 33 Looking for Alaska
  35. 34 Mexican WhiteBoy
  36. 35 The Miseducation of Cameron Post
  37. 36 Monster
  38. 37 One Fat Summer
  39. 38 The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  40. 39 Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
  41. 40 Push
  42. 41 Rainbow Boys
  43. 42 Speak
  44. 43 Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
  45. 44 Stuck in Neutral
  46. 45 Thirteen Reasons Why
  47. 46 This One Summer
  48. 47 Twisted
  49. 48 Two Boys Kissing
  50. 49 Unwind
  51. 50 Vegan Virgin Valentine
  52. 51 We All Fall Down
  53. 52 Whale Talk
  54. 53 What My Mother Doesn’t Know
  55. 54 Wintergirls
  56. Appendix A: Adult Books That Have Been Challenged or Banned in the High School Curriculum
  57. Appendix B: Rankings of Young Adult Books on the Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books List of 2000–2009
  58. Appendix C: Rankings of Young Adult Books on the Top 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books List of 1990–1999
  59. Appendix D: Resources for Teaching Young Adults about the Freedom to Read
  60. Appendix E: Professional Resources for Book Censorship and the Freedom to Read
  61. Appendix F: Censorship and Teaching Ideas about the First Amendment
  62. Appendix G: Free Speech Organizations
  63. About the Author