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List April 12, 2023

CFE Profiles of Challenged Books

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

Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

Mike Curato, Flamer

Juno Dawson, This book is Gay

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

Jessica Love, Juliàn Is A Mermaid 

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 

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

Jannette Walls, The Glass Castle