Banned Books

6. Sixteen-year-old Starr's world is shattered when she witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend, Khalil, at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.
9. This book contains eerie horror and dark revenge tales, including stories of skeletons, a ghost, and a haunted house, with creepy drawings.
11. A book of poems by a popular America poet and illustrator that has been the subject of controversy regarding some of its content.
12. A book about a teenage girl who develops a drug addiction and runs away from home on a journey of self-destructive escapism.
14. A story about a high school sophomore, and the reasons why she killed herself.

1. This book uses a mixture of a third-person screenplay and a first-person diary format to tell the story, through the perspective of Steve Harmon, an African American teenager.
2. A series of horror novels where the protagonists often find themselves in frightening circumstances involving the supernatural, the paranormal or the occult.
3. A coming of age story about two teenage friends during a summer in Awago, a small beach town where they discover themselves and their sexuality while battling family dynamics and mental disabilities.
4. A story based loosely on the real life addictions of the author's daughter.
5. A series of seven novels that chronicle the lives of a young wizard, and his friends.
7. A coming-of-age novel that details the conflict between two rival gangs in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
8. This true story of one librarian’s remarkable bravery to save her the books and her library in a war-torn Iraq.
10. The story of Amir, a young Afghan boy from set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, that sparked the mass exodus of Afghan refugees, as well as the rise of the Taliban regime.
13. The story of high school freshman who experiences sexual assault and is then ostracized by her peers because she is unable to verbalize what happened She learns to express her voice through the art she produces.