Freedom to Read Week: Banned or Challenged Children's BooksLike this list

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• And Tango Makes Three

  Richardson, Justin, 1963-

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  At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches.

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  Mowat, Diane,

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  Huckleberry Finn, an abused outcast, rafts with Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River where they have a variety of experiences.

• Bridge to Terabithia

  Paterson, Katherine,

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  Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. And he almost is, until the new girl in school, Leslie Burke, outpaces him. The two become fast friends and spend most days in the woods behind Leslie's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Night of the Living Dummy

  Stine, R. L.

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  Lindy names the ventriloquist's dummy she finds Slappy. Slappy is kind of ugly, but he's a lot of fun. Lindy's having a great time learning to make Slappy move and talk. But Kris is jealous of all the attention her sister is getting. It's no fair.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• If I Ran the Zoo

  Seuss, Dr

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  If Gerald McGrew ran the zoo, he'd let all the animals go and fill it with more unusual beasts--a ten-footed lion, an Elephant-Cat, a Mulligatawny, a Tufted Mazurka, and others.

• Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher

  Coville, Bruce

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  Sixth-grader Jeremy Thatcher discovers a strange magic shop he has never seen before. He enters, and his life is changed forever. Buying what he thinks is a marble, he discovers he has really purchased a dragon's egg.

• Little Bird's ABC

  Grobler, Piet

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  As birds interact with what is going on around them, they make sounds that correspond to the letters of the alphabet.

• My First Ramadan

  Katz, Karen

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  A boy observes the Muslim holy month of Ramadan with his family.

• On the Banks of Plum Creek

  Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957,

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  Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.

• Pride

  Celebrating Diversity & Community

  Stevenson, Robin, 1968-

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  For LGBTQ people and their supporters, Pride events are an opportunity to honor the past, protest injustice, and celebrate a diverse and vibrant community. The high point of Pride, the Pride Parade, is spectacular and colorful. But there is a whole…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Giver

  Lowry, Lois,

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  Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.

• The Golden Compass

  Pullman, Philip, 1946-

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  Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subjects of gruesome experiments in the Far North.

• The Indian in the Cupboard

  Banks, Lynne Reid

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  A nine-year-old boy receives a plastic Indian, a cupboard, and a little key for his birthday and finds himself involved in adventure when the Indian comes to life in the cupboard and befriends him.

• Underground to Canada

  Smucker, Barbara Claassen,

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  Taken away from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, all Julilly has left is the dream of freedom. Every day that she spends huddled in the slaver trader's wagon travelling south or working on the brutal new plantation, she thinks about the land…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Adventures of Captain Underpants

  the First Epic Novel (colour Edition)

  Pilkey, Dav, 1966-

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  When George and Harold hypnotize their principal into thinking that he is the superhero Captain Underpants, he leads them to the lair of the nefarious Dr. Diaper, where they must defeat his evil robot henchmen.

• Drama

  Telgemeier, Raina,

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  Callie rides an emotional roller coaster while serving on the stage crew for a middle school production of Moon over Mississippi as various relationships start and end, and others never quite get going.

• Pride Colors

  Stevenson, Robin, 1968-

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  In this photographic concept book, babies and toddlers are introduced to the PRIDE flag and the meaning behind each color.

• Being You

  a First Conversation About Gender

  Madison, Megan,

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  While young children are avid observers and questioners of their world, adults often shut down or postpone conversations on complicated topics because it's hard to know where to begin. Research shows that talking about issues like race and gender…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pretty Ugly

  Sedaris, David,

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  In this hilarious illustrated fable, Anna Van Ogre loses her lovely monstrous looks and is turned into a sickeningly adorable, rosy-cheeked little girl. It starts her on a journey to learn an unforgettable lesson about true beauty.

• Beetle & the Hollowbones

  Layne, Aliza,

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  Twelve-year-old goblin and witch-in-training Beetle enlists her former best friend, Kat Hollowbones, to help stop Kat's sorceress aunt from demolishing the mall where Beetle's friend Blob Ghost is trapped.