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• Sold

  McCormick, Patricia, 1956-

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  #1 Number of challenges: 36. Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  Chbosky, Stephen

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  #2 Number of challenges: 33. A coming of age novel about Charlie, a freshman in high school who is a wallflower, shy and introspective, and very intelligent. He deals with the usual teen problems, but also with the suicide of his best friend.

• Gender Queer

  Kobabe, Maia

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  #3 Number of challenges: 25. In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Empire of Storms

  Maas, Sarah J.

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  #4 Number of challenges: 24. The long path to the throne has only just begun for Aelin Galathynius. Loyalties have been broken and bought, friends have been lost and gained, and those who possess magic find themselves at odds with those who don’t.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Last Night at the Telegraph Club

  Lo, Malinda

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  #5 (TIE) Number of challenges: 23. Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tricks

  Hopkins, Ellen

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  #5 (TIE) Number of challenges: 23. Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love. When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.

• A Court of Thorns and Roses

  Maas, Sarah J.

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  #6 Number of challenges: 22. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from stories, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin, a High Lord of the faeries. As her feelings toward him transform from hostility to a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Clockwork Orange

  Burgess, Anthony, 1917-1993

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  #8 (TIE) Number of challenges: 21. In Anthony Burgess’s influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Identical

  Hopkins, Ellen

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  #8 (TIE) Number of challenges: 21. Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Looking for Alaska

  Green, John, 1977-

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  #8 (TIE) Number of challenges: 21. Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

• Storm and Fury

  Armentrout, Jennifer L.

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  #8 (TIE) Number of challenges: 21. Eighteen-year-old Trinity Marrow may be going blind, but she can see and communicate with ghosts and spirits. Her unique gift is part of a secret so dangerous that she’s been in hiding for years in an isolated…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Freedom of Information - Deschutes Public Library

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  In an era where information is readily available at our fingertips, libraries stand as guardians of intellectual freedom, championing the right of every individual to access a wide spectrum of information.

• Banned Books Week® | Banned Books

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  More information on Banned Books Week. Banned Books Week 2026 is October 4–10, 2026. It brings together the entire book community — librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types — in shared support of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bad Kitty

  Bruel, Nick

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• Bridge to Terabithia

  Paterson, Katherine

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• Drama

  Telgemeier, Raina

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• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  Rowling, J. K.

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• The Bluest Eye

  Morrison, Toni

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• The Walking Dead. Volume 1, Days Gone Bye

  Kirkman, Robert

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• The Hunger Games

  Collins, Suzanne

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