List April 12, 2023

CFE Profiles of Challenged Books

Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Mike Curato, Flamer

Deborah Ellis, Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak

Jonathan Evison, Lawn Boy

Alex Gino, Rick

John Green, Looking for Alaska

Robie H. Harris, It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health

Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings, I Am Jazz

Ellen Hopkins, Crank

Ellen Hopkins, Identical

Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue

Susan Kuklin, Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Jessica Love, Juliàn Is A Mermaid

Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

Megan Madison, Jessica Ralli, Being You: A First Conversation About Gender

Patricia McCormick, Sold

Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan, Let’s Talk About It: The Teen’s Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human

Ashley Hope Pérez, Out of Darkness

Ellen Hopkins, Tricks

Alice Sebold, Lucky

Cory Silverberg, Sex Is a Funny Word: A Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU

Cory Silverberg, What Makes a Baby

Cory Silverberg, You Know, Sex

Rebecca Vilkomerson and Rabbi Alissa Wise, Solidarity is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing

Jannette Walls, The Glass Castle

Alberta Public Libraries Toolkit

Alberta public libraries are facing a direct challenge to three of their most fundamental values – intellectual freedom, inclusiveness, and serving the needs of everyone in their communities. CFE has prepared a Toolkit of information and resources to help Alberta’s public libraries deal effectively with the province’s demand to impose censorship. Additional information and resources for libraries will be added to the Toolkit on a regular basis.

Standing Up for What You Are: A Guide for a Positive Response to Provincial Demands

Alberta library staff and boards face a serious dilemma. How should their libraries respond to the provincial government's unprecedented steps to override a long and unblemished tradition of local governance of Alberta’s public libraries which began 119 years ago?

A Positive Option for Alberta Public Libraries: Stand Up for What You Are

It’s decision time. The Alberta government is directing you to abandon what has made your public library what it is today – locally governed, with collections based on the needs and interests of your community, local policies, and competent staff to ensure that everyone in your community finds material that is of interest to them.