Your Right to READ 2023
- rcarrera73
- Sep 26, 2023
- 1 min read
Updated: Feb 28, 2024
Did you know that 56% of banned titles are written for the Young Adult audience? Celebrate your right to read with a selection of books that have been challenged throughout the USA or visit one of the sites below to find ways to get active!
From UniteAgainstBookBans.org Action Toolkit:
"Books are tools for understanding complex issues. Limiting young people's access to books does not protect them from life's complex and challenging issues."
Visit pen.org for facts about book banning in the USA and check out their index of school book bans.
Want to get active? Visit BookRiot's Banned Book Week Action List!
The Intellectual Freedom Teen Council (IFTC) is a virtual space hosted by The Brooklyn Public Library where teens (ages 13-19) from across the country can connect with a peer-support network and discuss book challenges, censorship, and intellectual freedom.
Stop by the Teen Room to find these titles!
How to Be a (Young)Anti-Racist 
The Black Friend-Nonfiction 
This Book is Gay-Nonfiction 
Ordinary Hazards-Nonfiction 
The 57 Bus-Nonfiction 
NONFICTION 
Persepolis-Graphic Novel 
I'm a Wild Seed-Graphic Novel 
This One Summer-Graphic Novel 
Flamer-Graphic Novel 
GRAPHIC NOVEL 
Black Enough-Story Collection 
We Are the Ants-Fiction 
Out of Darkness-Fiction 
Dear Martin-Fiction 
Monday's Not Coming-Fiction 
Sold-Novel in Verse 
FICTION 
Almost Perfect-Fiction 
All American Boys 
We Set the Dark on Fire-Fictio 
American Street-Fiction 
Looking for Alaska-Fiction 
The Perks of Being a Wallflowe 
13 Reasons Why-Fiction 
FICTION 
Last Night at the Telegraph Cl 
Beyond Magenta-Nonfiction 
Me, Earl and the Dying Girl 
The Absolutely True Story... 
The Hate U Give-Fiction 
FICTION 
FICTION 
FICTION
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