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Lolita (other topics)Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (other topics)
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (other topics)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (other topics)
Brave New World (other topics)
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Vladimir Nabokov (other topics)Lewis Carroll (other topics)
William S. Burroughs (other topics)
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January 1st - *Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
January 15th - The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
February 1st - *The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative by Mary Prince
February 15th - The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
March 1st - *Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
March 15th - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
April 1st - *The Awakening by Kate Chopin
April 15th - Looking for Alaska by John Green
May 1st - *The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
May 15th - Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
June 1st - Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
June 15th - All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson
July 1st - Black Boy by Richard Wright
July 15th - Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
August 1st - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
August 15th - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
September 1st - A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
September 15th - Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
October 1st - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
October 15th - Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
November 1st - The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
November 15th - Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
December 1st - Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
December 15th - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
*You may substitute one of the alternate books for this title if you choose:
1984 or Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Grapes of Wrath or Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
A short list of some of the children's books that have been challenged or banned. These are not alternates for the challenge, but provided to show how this issue impacts all of us, including kids.
And Tango Makes Three
Jenny Lives With Eric and Martin
Melissa
The Giver
Harriet the Spy
Charlotte's Web
The Adventures of Captain Underpants (series)