Young Adult Reading List
Date Updated: September 2012
Date Updated: September 2012
Teen Banned Books
| Call Number | Author | Title | ↑ Reason ↓ |
|---|---|---|---|
| YA FICTION COLLINS | Collins, Suzanne | The Hunger Games (Series) | Reasons: anti-ethnic; anti-family; insensitivity; offensive language; occult/satanic; violence |
| YA FICTION CHBOSKY | Chbosky, Stephen | The perks of being a wallflower | Reasons: anti-family, drugs, homosexuality, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit, suicide, unsuited to age group |
| YA FICTION MYRACLE | Myracle, Lauren | ttyl | Reasons: drugs, nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group |
| YA FICTION HOPKINS | Hopkins, Ellen | Crank | Reasons: drugs, offensive language, and sexually explicit |
| YA FICTION GO | Go Ask Alice | Reasons: drugs, offensive language, sexually explicit | |
| YA FICTION FRIEND | Friend, Natasha | Lush | Reasons: drugs, offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group |
| YA FICTION VON ZIEGESAR | Von Ziegesar, Cecily | Gossip girl (Series) | Reasons: drugs; offensive language; sexually explicit |
| YA FICTION CORMIER | Cormier, Robert | The chocolate war | Reasons: nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group |
| YA FICTION ROWLING | Rowling, J.K. | Harry Potter (Series) | Reasons: occult/Satanism |
| YA FICTION NAYLOR | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Alice (Series) | Reasons: offensive language and sexually explicit |
| YA FICTION GREENE | Greene, Bette | Summer of my German soldier | Reasons: offensive language, racism, sexually explicit |
| YA FICTION MYERS | Myers, Walter Dean | Fallen Angels | Reasons: offensive language, racism, violence |
| YA FICTION SALINGER | Salinger, J.D. | Catcher in the rye | Reasons: offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group |
| YA FICTION MACKLER | Mackler, Carolyn | The earth, my butt, and other big, round things | Reasons: offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group |
| YA FICTION ALEXIE | Alexie, Sherman | The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian | Reasons: offensive language; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group |
| YA FICTION PULLMAN | Pullman, Philip | His Dark Materials (Series) | Reasons: political viewpoint, religious viewpoint, and violence |
| YA FICTION CRUTCHER | Crutcher, Chris | Whale Talk | Reasons: racism, offensive language |
| YA FICTION MEYER | Meyer, Stephanie | Twilight (Series) | Reasons: religious viewpoint and violence |
| YA FICTION SONES | Sones, Sonya | What my mother doesn't know | Reasons: sexism, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group |
| YA FICTION KLAUSE | Klause, Annette Curtis | Blood and Chocolate | Reasons: sexually explicit, unsuited to age group |
