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Banned Books Week

Celebrate the freedom to read. The American Library Association tracks challenges to library, school and university materials from those who would tell us what we can and can't read. Here are the most challenged titles from recent years.

Chandler Public Library

31 items

  • Graphic Novel, 2019[St. Louis, Missouri] : Lion Forge, LLC, [2019] — GR 306.762 KOBABE 2019
  • Book, 1994New York : Plume, [1994], c1970.
  • Graphic Novel, 2020New York : Godwin Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2020. — YA-GR FLAMER
  • Book, 2018Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018. — F EVISON
  • Book, 2004New York, NY : Simon Pulse, ©2004. — YA HOPKIN
  • Book, 2021Naperville, IL : Sourcebooks Fire, [2021] — 306.766 DAWSON 2021
  • Book, 2017New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017] — YA THOMAS
  • Beyond Magenta

    Transgender Teens Speak Out

    Kuklin, Susan,
    Book, 2014Somerville, Massachusetts Candlewick Press, 2014. — 306.768 KUKLIN 2014
  • Book, 2015New York : Scholastic Press, 2015.
  • Stamped

    Racism, Antiracism, and You

    Kendi, Ibram X.,
    Book, 2020New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020. — 305.800973 KENDI 2020
  • Book, 2015New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2015] — YA REYNOL
  • Book, 1999New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, [1999] — YA ANDERS