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The books featured during Banned Books Week have all been targeted for removal or restriction in libraries and schools. By focusing on attempts across the country to remove or restrict access to books, Banned Books Week draws national attention to the harms of censorship. If you would like more information about why these titles were challenged, the American Library Association is a great place to start. The Washoe County Library System believes in your intellectual freedom. All of these titles for teens are available in our catalog. Click a title to place a hold for pickup at one of our grab-and-go or drive-up locations or to find electronic copies in Overdrive or Libby.
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Beyond magenta : transgender teens speak out
by Susan Kuklin
Draws on six first-person interviews to share compassionate insights into the teen transgender experience, tracing each individual's emotional and physical journey as it was shaped by family dynamics, living situations and the transition each teen made during the personal journey toward acknowledgement of gender preference.
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The hate u give
by Angie Thomas
"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil's name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does or does not say could upend her community. Itcould also endanger her life"
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Two boys kissing
by David Levithan
A chorus of men who have died of AIDS observes and yearns to help a cross-section of today's gay teens who navigate new love, long-term relationships, coming out, self-acceptance and more in a society that has changed in many ways. By the author of Boy Meets Boy.
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Th1rteen r3asons why : a novel
by Jay Asher
When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
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Looking for Alaska
by John Green
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash
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Eleanor & Park
by Rainbow Rowell
A first young adult novel by the author of Attachments follows the year-long, star-crossed romance between two 1980s high school misfits whose intelligence tells them that first loves almost never last but whose feelings prevent them from remaining as practical.
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The perks of being a wallflower
by Stephen Chbosky
In a thought-provoking coming-of-age novel, Charlie struggles to cope with complex world of high school as he deals with the confusions of sex and love, the temptations of drugs, and the pain of losing a close friend and a favorite aunt.
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Crank
by Ellen Hopkins
A novel in verse follows the journey of a 17-year-old whose crystal meth addiction gives rise to a destructive alter ego with torturous logic that convinces her to engage in increasingly reckless behavior, in a tale based on the author's experience with her daughter's addiction.
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Twilight
by Stephenie Meyer
When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human
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Gossip Girl : psycho killer
by Cecily Von Ziegesar
An uproarious horror-spin adaptation of the first Gossip Girl tale finds Serena returning from boarding school determined to make amends to Blair Waldorf by eliminating Nate Archibald, a plot that Blair counters with her own plans to get rid of everyone who ever irritated her.
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The earth, my butt, and other big, round things
by Carolyn Mackler
Feeling like she does not fit in with her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, Virginia tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical relationship, and her disillusionment with some of the people closest to her
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Forever...
by Judy Blume
Katherine and Michael, along with various friends and acquaintances in suburban New Jersey, discover the possibilities and limitations of love and personal commitment.
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Fallen Angels
by Walter Dean Myers
Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.
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Blood and chocolate
by Annette Curtis Klause
Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom.
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Summer of my German soldier
by Bette Greene
Set during World War II, a curious, twelve-year-old Jewish girl, Patty Bergen, finds herself drawn to the German prison camp in her hometown in Arkansas, but an unexpected friendship develops between her and a soldier that puts her in a position that may forever alter her life. An ALA Notable Book. Reissue.
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The golden compass
by Philip Pullman
Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down the river with a runaway slave, encountering a family involved in a feud, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt who mistakes him for Tom.
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The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian
by Sherman Alexie
Leaving the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school, Junior struggles to find his place in his new surroundings in order to escape his destiny back on the reservation.
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The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
Set in the cruel world in the Capital of the nation of Panem, the annual Hunger Games pits young children against one another in a battle to the death on national t.v., so when Katniss is ordered to represent her district, she knows an important decision between survival and the love of another will have to be made when she is called to enter the ring.
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Whale talk
by Chris Crutcher
Seven unlikely teammates, swimmers who become, in the words of their coach "A perennial road team. Mermen without a pond," find an unexpected refuge in a big yellow Cutter High School bus, in a captivating, sad, and humorous novel. Reprint.
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