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  • While still coping with her parents' sudden divorce and having to start at a new school midway through her senior year, Noor and two new friends take a stand against book bans at their small-town Illinois high school.
    Book, 2024New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2024. — Fiction
  • Banned Together

    Our Fight for Readers' Rights

    A collection of fiction, memoir, poetry, graphic narratives, essays and other genres explores book bans through various lenses and empowers teens to fight back, in an anthology featuring the voices of 15 diverse award-winning authors and…
    Book, 2025New York : Holiday House, [2025] — 025.213 B219 2025
  • Horrified when her draconian principal bans all awareness-raising and issue-centric books from the school library, passionate bibliophile Clara teams up with the student council president and other friends to start an underground library.
    Book, 2019New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] — Fiction
  • Working at her family's independent bookstore during the summer before she leaves for college, Madeline Moore is determined to make the store succeed when she discovers that her crush, Jasper, works at the competing chain bookstore across the street.
    Book, 2021New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] — Fiction
  • Shoshanna Greenburg loves her job at the bookstore, Once Upon, until Jake Kaplan joins the staff, a handsome non-reader who challenges her for a bonus she needs.
    Book, 2020New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2020] — Fiction
  • When 16-year-old Marcos travels to Cartagena, Colombia, to scatter his late father's ashes, he strikes up a friendship with Camilo, a boy his age who works as a local taxi driver and shares Marcos' love for the novel ''One Hundred Years of…
    Book, 2024New York : Holiday House, 2024. — Fiction
  • Documents the gripping true story of the South Korean author’s student days under the authoritarian regime of the early 1980s, describing how she defied state censorship laws by joining an underground banned book club to read great works of…
    Graphic Novel, 2020Chicago, IL : Iron Circus Comics, 2020. — 363.3109 K49Zk 2020
  • Charged with treason after accusing the principessa’s powerful brother of stealing from the city, Cinzia manages to escape and works with the principessa’s daughter to expose the truth, following a whisper network of girls who empower them to change…
    Graphic Novel, 2023New York : Greenwillow Books, Harper Alley, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2023. — 741.5 qN6912j 2023
  • Marnie Plummer is a bookish, lonely girl with a chip on her shoulder. There’s nothing she cares about more than her favorite book series. When it miraculously turns out that the world of the books is actually real, and they need a Chosen One to come…
    Graphic Novel, 2024New York, NY : First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership, 2024. — 741.5 S5681 2024
  • Discovered practicing alchemy by apprentice Ramsay Thorne, Ash must help her find a sacred text of extraordinary power--a journey that forces him to discover his own definition of true power and how far he will go to seize it.
    Book, 2024New York ; Tor Teen, Tor Publishing Group, 2024. — Fiction