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Protect the Freedom To Read With Book Resumes

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Protect the Freedom To Read With Book Resumes

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Book Resumes are free resources for teachers, librarians, parents, and community advocates to use to support frequently challenged books. These documents contain reviews from professional trade review journals, links to resources and relevant media, and, where possible, more information about how books have been successfully retained in school districts.

Use the categories below to search alphabetically by book title and click on the title to download the corresponding Book Resume as a PDF.

A – D | E – H | I – L | M – P | Q – T | U – Z | 0 – 9

A – D


All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold

All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir

Almost Flying by Jake Maia Arlow

Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher

Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation by Anne Frank, Adapted by Ari Folman

Animal Farm by George Orwell 

Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi

The Baby Tree by Sophie Blackall

Being Jazz by Jazz Jennings

Being You by Megan Madison and Jessica Ralli

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Best Man by Richard Peck

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon

Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James

Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin 

Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

Born on the Water by Nikole Hannah-Jones

Born Ready by Jodie Patterson

Boy Erased by Garrard Conley

Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan

Breathless by Jennifer Niven

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Calvin by JR Ford and Vanessa Ford

Change Sings by Amanda Gorman

A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Darius the Great Deserves Better by Adib Khorram

Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram

The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson

Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

Dear Martin by Nic Stone

Donovan’s Big Day by Leslea Newman

The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee

Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina GarcĂ­a

E – H


Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

Families, Families, Families! by Suzanne Lang and
Max Lang

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Fences by August Wilson

Flight of the Puffin by Ann Braden

Fly on the Wall by E. Lockhart

Fresh Ink by Lamar Giles

From Here by Luma Mufleh

From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson

Girl Crushed by Katie Heaney

Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow

Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood 

Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson

The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman

Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros 

How It All Blew Up by Arvin Ahmadi

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

I – L


I Am Jazz by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings 

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

In Our Mothers’ House by Patricia Polacco

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo 

Let’s Talk About It by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan

Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart

Looking for Alaska by John Green

M – P


The Magic Fish by Trung Lee Nguyen

Man o’ War by Cory McCarthy

Maus by Art Spiegelman

My Awesome/Awful Popularity Plan by Seth Rudetsky

My Rainbow by DeShanna and Trinity Neal

The Name Jar by Choi Yang-Sook

Normal People by Sally Rooney

Odd One Out by Nic Stone

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 

The Oldest Student by Rita Lorraine Hubbard

One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus

Our Skin by Megan Madison and Jessica Ralli

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Paper Towns by John Green

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi 

Pink, Blue, and You! by Elise Gravel and Mykaell Blais

Pride by Rob Sanders

Q – T


Rage by Julie Ann Peters

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo

Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson

Sing a Song by Kelly Starling Lyons

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 

The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus

This Is My America by Kim Johnson

This Is Our Rainbow by Katherine Locke and Nicole Melleby

This Is Your Time by Ruby Bridges

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 

Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff

Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan

U – Z


The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices edited by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson

What Lane? by Torrey Maldonado

The Whispers by Greg Howard

White Bird by R. J. Palacio

Wide Awake by David Levithan

Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

0 – 9

The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones

1984 by George Orwell

Thousands of books face censorship – for a more complete collection of book resumes, visit the Unite Against Book Bans Book Resume Database.