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Columbia Pike Teen Book Club - Sep 2023 - Banned Books
Recently Banned and Challenged in Virginia Schools
Top 13 Books Most Challenged in 2022
Recently Banned and Challenged in Virginia Schools
Top 13 Books Most Challenged in 2022
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Charlie is a freshman. And while's he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. He's a wallflower--shy and introspective, and intelligent beyond his years, if not very savvy in the social arts. We learn about Charlie through the letters he writes to someone of undisclosed name, age, and gender, a stylistic technique that adds to the heart-wrenching earnestness saturating this teen's story. Charlie encounters the same struggles...
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It's the night of senior prom. Julia and her friends have secured a secluded cabin in the woods, one night without parental supervision, and plenty of condoms. But as they leave the dance, their pact begins to unravel. Alex's grandmother is undergoing emergency surgery, and he and his date rush to the hospital. Zoe's trying to figure out how she feels about getting off the waitlist at Yale-- and how to tell her girlfriend. Madison's chronic illness...
3) Fresh
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2021.
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English
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Elliot McHugh enters her first year of college not knowing what to expect but after parties, new friends, and tough tests she begins to learn a lot about herself and what is important.
Picking a major is the last thing on Elliot McHugh's mind when she is too busy dancing all night at off-campus parties, testing her RA Rose’s patience, making new friends... and having the best sex one can have on a twin-sized dorm room bed. But she may not be ready...
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DIMILY trilogy volume 3
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Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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A year after their break-up when tragedy draws stepsiblings Eden Munro and Tyler Bruce together again, Eden contemplates this one last chance at love.
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Biz knows how to float. She has her people, her posse, her mom and the twins. She has Grace. And she has her dad, who tells her about the little kid she was, and who shouldn't be here but is. So Biz doesn't tell anyone anything. Not about her dark, runaway thoughts, not about kissing Grace or noticing Jasper, the new boy. And she doesn't tell anyone about her dad. Because her dad died when she was seven. And Biz knows how to float, right there on...
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Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Journey hadn't planned for a future, but when her suicide attempt fails she finds the life she never meant to live challenging in more ways than before: her parents don't trust her, her friends have moved on for their own good, her bipolar disorder is overwhelming. At odds with herself and lacking concrete goals, she begins volunteering at a local helpline, where she finds a community as strong yet broken as she is.
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Hundred Oaks volume 7
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Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Taylor, a senator's daughter, was captain of the soccer team and contender for valedictorian at her private school, but gets kicked out, sent to a rival high school, and soon she is falling for her brother's friend Ezra.
Taylor's always pushed herself to be perfect, but one impulsive lie to cover for her boyfriend and she's kicked out of private school. Starting over at Hundred Oaks High it's hard to fit in and play on a soccer team that used to...
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Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Best friends Liv and Morgan are dating brothers, Nathan and Clay. On their way home from a party in Clay's convertible, four lives change forever in a sudden impact, a screech of brakes, and shattering glass. Liv wakes up in the hospital, confused when people call her Morgan. But when the bandages come off her face, it's Morgan's face in the mirror. Morgan always seemed to have the perfect life, but as Liv tries to fit herself into Morgan's world,...
9) Clear cut
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Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Heather Wright is always all right. That's what people say. But if she's always all right, then why is life so hard? Heather starts cutting as a way to deal with the difficult emotions she locks inside. What starts out as casual cutting turns into a dangerous addiction. When Heather goes away to summer theater camp, she meets Josie. Josie is a tough, sassy diva who is more than just a cutter, but a cutting advocate online. Heather looks up to Josie...
10) Broken prince
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The royals (Erin Watt) volume 2
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[EverAfter Romance]
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Reed Royal meant to keep Ella Harper safe-- but one foolish mistake drove her out of his arms and brought chaos to the Royal household. Now she's back-- she's left her stripper job and is back in Reed's bed. But he's admitted to sleeping with his father's girlfriend, and they are surrounded by secrets, betrayal, and enemies. If Reed is going to win back his princess, he'll need to prove himself royally worthy.
11) Blood moon
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Walker Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"After school one day, Frankie, a lover of physics and astronomy, has her first sexual experience with quiet and gorgeous Benjamin - and gets her period. It's only blood, they agree. But soon a gruesome meme goes viral, turning an intimate, affectionate afternoon into something sordid, mortifying, and damaging. In the time it takes to swipe a screen, Frankie's universe implodes. Who can she trust? Not Harriet, her suddenly cruel best friend, and certainly...
12) Twisted palace
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The royals (Erin Watt) volume 3
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[EverAfter Romance]
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Ella Harper has met every challenge life has thrown at her, but these new challenges might be too much even for her. Reed Royal's tendency to meet every obstacle with violence has finally caught up with him-- his DNA was found at the scene of Brooke's murder. To save himself and the girl he loves Reed must beat the law, save their families, and rise above his tarnished reputation-- but keeping his hands off Ella and keeping himself out of her bed...
13) Breathless
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With high school coming to an end, Claudine Henry is focused on four things: sex, starting college, becoming a famous writer, and... sex. But when her parents announce they're splitting up, her entire world begins to fall apart. The epic road trip she planned with her best friend is cancelled, and she finds herself stuck on a remote island off the coast of Georgia with her mom - an island with no WiFi, no cell service and no friends. Until she meets...
14) Queens of geek
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Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Three friends go to a convention and find love--and themselves.
Australian friends Charlie, Taylor and Jamie are in San Diego for their first ever "SupaCon." Charlie likes to stand out. She's a vlogger/actress promoting her first movie, and this is her chance to show fans she's over her public breakup with co-star Reese Ryan. When internet-famous cool-girl actress Alyssa Huntington arrives as a surprise guest, it seems Charlie's long-time crush on...
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Razorbill
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©2020.
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English
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"When eighteen-year-old Keely Collins decides to lose her virginity, she fears Dean, a college student, will be turned off by her inexperience, so she decides to start with lifelong friend Andrew." --
As the last virgin in her group of friends, Keely wants to have that experience too. She needs to find someone she trusts and actually likes, and fast. Problem is, she's known all the boys in her small high school forever. New guy Dean is already in...
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Imprint
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Frankie Devereux would do anything to forget the past. Haunted by the memory of her boyfriend's death, she lives her life by one dangerous rule: nothing matters. Then a reckless mistake forces her to leave her privileged life in the Heights to move in with her dad, an undercover cop. She transfers to public school in the Downs, where fistfights in the halls don't faze anyone and illegal street racing is more popular than football....
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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While exploring her grandmother's past at an ashram in India with her cousin Anandi, seventeen-year-old Raya finds herself and, perhaps, true love in this modern retelling of the legend of Dushyanta and Shakuntala.
Ever since her acceptance to UCLA, 17-year-old Raya Liston has been quietly freaking out. She feels simultaneously lost and trapped by a future already mapped out for her. Then her beloved grandmother dies, and Raya jumps at the chance...
18) Standing strong
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7th Generation
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Like some other Native American teens on Montana reservations, Rhonda Runningcrane attempted suicide. To her, life seemed bleak and pointless. But when she learns that donations are needed to support a large protest against an oil company running a pipeline through sacred Native land, something inside her clicks. Unlike her friends, Rhonda is inspired to join the fight, even though she knows it could be dangerous. Using skills she learned from her...
19) Ace of hearts
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James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Everyone around Alvin seems to be obsessed with one thing―sex. Alvin finds it uncomfortable to think and talk about it and he knows he isn't ready. His friends, however, think that all Alvin needs is to hook up with the right guy, so they start a plan to set Alvin up with three different guys. First there's Allistair, a boy with strong ambitions. Second is Rowan, a trans boy. Third is Jesse, the popular heartbreaker. But the closer Alvin gets to...
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HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Alvie Fitz doesn't fit in, and she doesn't care. She's spent years swallowing meds and bad advice from doctors and social workers. Adjust, adapt. Pretend to be normal. It sounds so easy. If she can make it to her eighteenth birthday without any major mishaps, she'll be legally emancipated. Free. But if she fails, she'll become a ward of the state and be sent back to the group home. All she wants is to be left alone to spend time with her friend,...
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