MVST - Banned Books Week: Young Adult

Top 10 in 2018 and 2017.

Challenged for "being anti-cop" and "profanity, drug use and sexual references".

When Starr's best friend Khalil is shot by a police officer, the entire country wants to know what happened, and the entire community - the people marching in the streets for his sake, the people who want him seen as a criminal - have a stake in which side of the story gets out. Starr saw everything - but speaking out could mean turning the entire community upside down and endangering herself. 

Top 10 in 2018, 2017, and 2012.

Challenged for addressing teen suicide.

A high school student receives thirteen tapes in the mail from a classmate who just committed suicide. As he follows them around time, he has to ask himself: is he the best chance of getting the truth out, or was he part of the problem?

Top 10 in 2017, 2011 and 2009.

Challenged for violence and use of the N-word.

"Scout" Finch, an Alabama lawyer's daughter, deals with the tensions in town when her father defends a black man from a rape allegation, and wonders about the truth behind the town's mysterious recluse.

Top 10 in 2016.

Challenged for offensive language.

Two misfits fall in love over the course of a school year.

Top 10 in 2015.

Challenged for "anti-family", offensive language, homosexuality, sex education, political viewpoint, religious viewpoint, "unsuitability for age group".

Transgender teens talk about their identities and what they mean to them.

Top 10 in 2014.

Challenged for gambling, offensive language, political viewpoint, "politically, racially and socially offensive", "graphic depictions".

A young girl grows up in the middle of the Islamic Revolution in Iran.

Top 10 in 2013, 2011 and 2010.

Challenged for religious viewpoint, unsuited to age group, anti-ethnic, anti-family, insensitivity, offensive language, occult/satanic, violence

In a dystopian future, a young woman gets caught up in the death games the tyrannical government uses to keep its citizens in line. Her decision to take her younger sister's place could change the world - if she can keep herself alive.

Top 10 in 2010 and 2009.

Challenged for religious viewpoint and violence.

A girl moves to live with her father in small-town Washington and finds herself overwhelmingly attracted to a mysterious boy with a supernatural secret.

Top 10 in 2009 and 2006.

Challenged for offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group.

A fifteen-year-old girl deals with disillusionment, self-image, family problems and her first physical relationship.

Top 10 in 2009, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2002, and 2001.

Challenged for nudity and offensive language, and for being sexually explicit and unsuited to age group.

The high school's yearly chocolate fundraiser is serious business, as one freshman trying to opt out discovers.

Top 10 in 2007.

Challenged for offensive language and being sexually explicit.

A twelve-year-old girl deals with changes to her life over the course of a visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean.

Top 10 in 2008 and 2007.

Challenged for religious viewpoint, sexism, homosexuality, and being anti-ethnic, anti-family and "unsuitable for age group".

A young girl and her daemon go in search of her missing best friend and find far more than they expected.

Top 10 in 2007 and 2002.

Challenged for racism.

A boy fleeing an abusive relative rafts down the Mississippi River with a runaway slave.

Top 10 in 2014, 2007 and 2005.

Challenged for mentioning abortion, homosexuality, nudity, and sex education; due to religious viewpoint; and due to being "unsuited to age group".

A guide to changing bodies and to sex and safety for young people experiencing these changes.

Top 10 in 2004, 2003, and 2001.

Challenged for offensive language, racism and violence.

A seventeen year old boy goes straight from high school to fighting in Vietnam.

Top 10 in 2003, 2002 and 2001.

Challenged for "occult/Satanism".

Seven years at a school of magic bring one young wizard from clueless outsider to Chosen One.

Top 10 in 2003 and 2001.

Challenged for depiction of drugs.

For one fifteen-year-old drug user, kicking the habit and escaping the culture is much harder than it sounds.

Top 10 in 2002.

Challenged for offensive language.

The children of a black family in 1930s Mississippi try to make sense of the racism they and their parents have to deal with.

Top 10 in 2002.

Challenged for violence and being unsuited to the age group it was written for.

An Inuit girl fleeing an unwanted marriage runs into the wilds of Alaska. Will the wolf pack she befriends be enough to help her stay alive?