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

Juno Dawson, This book is Gay

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

Rupi Kaur, milk and honey

Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

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

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

Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

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

Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

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

Jannette Walls, The Glass Castle