Table of Contents
Preface ix
1 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie 1
2 The Alice Series Phyllis Reynolds Naylot 7
3 Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence, edited Marion Dane Bauer 14
4 America E. R. Frank 17
5 A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl Tanya Lee Stone 20
6 Blood and Chocolate Annette Curtis Klause 24
7 A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive Dave Pelzer 28
8 The Chocolate War Robert Cormier 31
9 The Contender Robert Lipsyte 36
10 Crank Ellen Hopkins 39
11 Daughters of Eve Lois Duncan 43
12 A. Day No Pigs Would Die Robert Newton Peck 47
13 Deliver Us from Evie M. E. Kerr 51
14 The Drowning ofStephan Jones Bette Greene 54
15 The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things Carolyn Mackler 58
16 Eleanor & Park Rainbow Rowell 62
17 Fallen Angels Walter Dean Myers 66
18 The Fault in Our Stars John Green 71
19 Feed M. T. Anderson 75
20 Forever Judy Blume 79
21 Geography Club Brent Hartinger 84
22 Give a Boy a Gun Todd Strasser 88
23 The Giver Lois Lowry 91
24 Go Ask Alice Anonymous 96
25 Going Bovine Libba Bray 100
26 The Golden Compass Philip Pullman 103
27 How to Steal a Car Pete Hautman 107
28 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins 110
29 I Am J Cris Beam 116
30 Impulse Ellen Hopkins 119
31 The Internet Girls Series Lauren Myracle 123
32 Killing Mr. Griffin Lois Duncan 127
33 Looking for Alaska John Green 131
34 Mexican WhiteBoy Matt de la Peña 135
35 The Miseducation of Cameron Post Emily M. Danforth 138
36 Monster Walter Dean Myers 142
37 One Fat Summer Robert Lipsyte 146
38 The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky 150
39 Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi 155
40 Push Sapphire (Ramona Lofton) 159
41 Rainbow Boys Alex Sanchez 162
42 Speak Laurie Halse Anderson 165
43 Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes Chris Crutcher 170
44 Stuck in Neutral Terry Trueman 174
45 Thirteen Reasons Why Jay Asher 178
46 This One Summer Jillian Tamaki Mariko Tamaki 182
47 Twisted Laurie Halse Anderson 185
48 Two Boys Kissing David Levithan 188
49 Unwind Neal Shusterman 191
50 Vegan Virgin Valentine Carolyn Mackler 194
51 We All Fall Down Robert Cormier 197
52 Whale Talk Chris Crutcher 201
53 What My Mother Doesn't Know Sonya Sones 205
54 Wintergirls Laurie Halse Anderson 209
Appendix A Adult Books That Have Been Challenged or Banned in the High School Curriculum 213
Appendix B Rankings of Young Adult Books on the Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books List of 2000-2009 215
Appendix C Rankings of Young Adult Books on the Top 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books List of 1990-1999 217
Appendix D Resources for Teaching Young Adults about the Freedom to Read 219
Appendix E Professional Resources for Book Censorship and the Freedom to Read 221
Appendix F Censorship and Teaching Ideas about the First Amendment 223
Appendix G Free Speech Organizations 225
Index 227
About the Author 231