BANNED BOOK LIST 10/1/23
(Here is a list of books that have been banned by some States and School District Libraries that we sell to our customers. There are many other books that have been banned that we don't carry. Make your voice heard and give our youth the freedom to read. It is a human right.)
A Good Kind of Trouble
By Lisa Moore Ramee
All American Boys
By Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
American Street
By Ibi Zoiboi
Anti-Racist Baby Board Book
By Ibram x. Kendi and Ashley Lulashevsky
A Sweet Smell of Roses
By Angela Johnson and Eric Velasquez
Before She was Harriet
By Lesa Cline-Ransome and James E. Ransome
Between The World and Me
By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Bronx Masquerade
By Nikki Grimes
Brown Girl Dreaming
By Jacqueline Woodson
Caste: The Origins of our Discontents
By Isabel Wilkerson
Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa
By Veronica Chambers and Julie Maren
Class Act
By Jerry Craft
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut
By Derrick Barnes and Gordon C. James
Dear Martin
By Nic Stone
Don’t Touch My Hair
By Sharee Miller
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra
By Andrea Pinkney and Brian Pinkney
Freedom in Congo Square
By Carole Boston Weatherford and R. Gregory Christie
Full, Full, Full of Love
By Trish Cooke and Paul Howard
Ghost Boys
By Julia Parker Rhodes
Going Down Home with Daddy
By Kelly Starling Lyons and Daniel Minter
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America
By Carole Boston Weatherford and Jamey Christoph
Grown
By Tiffany Jackson
Hair Love
By Matthew A. Cherry and Vashti Harrison
Hands Up!
By Breanna J. McDaniel and Shane W. Evans
Harbor Me
By Jacqueline Woodson
Harlem’s Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills
By Renée Watson and Christian Robinson
Hey Black Child
By Useni Eugene Perkins and Bryan Collier
Hidden Figures
By Margot Lee Shetterly and Laura Freeman
How To Be An Anti-Racist
By Ibram X. Kendi
I Am Enough
By Grace Byers and Keturah A. Bobo
I Am Every Good Thing
By Derrick Barnes and Gordon C. James
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
By Maya Angelou
I Love My Hair
By Natasha Anastasia Tarpley and E. B. Lewis
Imani’s Moon
By JaNay Brown-Wood and Hazel Mitchel
I’m a Pretty Little Black Girl!
By Betty K. Bynum
Knock Knock: My Dad’s Dream for Me
By Daniel Beaty and Bryan Collier
Like Sisters on the Homefront
By Rita Williams Garcia
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
By Vashti Harrison
Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History
By Vashti Harrison
Little Melba and Her Big Trombone
By Kathryn Russell-Brown and Frank Morrisson
Long Way Down
By Jason Reynolds
Max and the Tag-Along Moon
By Floyd Cooper
Mississippi Bridge
By Mildred D. Taylor, Max Ginsburg (Illustrated by)
Mixed Me!
By Taye Diggs and Shane W. Evans
Monster
By Walter Dean Meyers
My Hair is a Garden
By Cozbi A. Cabrera
Nappy Hair
By Carolivia Herron
Native Son
By Richard Whright
New Kid
By Jerry Craft
No Mirrors in My Nana’s House: Musical CD and Book
By Ysaye M. Barnwell and Synthia Saint James
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
By Javaka Steptoe
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
By Mildred D. Taylor
Ron’s Big Mission
By Rose Blue, Corinne Nadine and Don Tate
Running the Road to ABC
By Denize Lauture and Reynold Ruffins
Scorpions
By Walter Dean Meyers
Skin Like Mine (Kids Like Mine Series)
By Latashia M. Perry
Something Happened In Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice
By Jessica Herthel
Stamped Racism, Antiracism and You
By Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Sulwe
By Lupita Nyongo
The 1619 Project: Born On The Water
By Nikole Hannah Jones
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
By Nikole Hannah Jones
The 5 O’Clock Band
By Troy Andrews, Bill Taylor, and Bryan Collier
The Autobiography of Malcom X
By Intro Alex Haley
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore
By Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and R. Gregory Christie
The Bluest Eye
By Toni Morrison
The Day You Begin
By Jacqueline Woodson and Rafael Lopez
The Family Book
By Todd Parr
The Great Migration: Journey to the North
By Eloise Greenfield and Jan Spivey Gilchrist
The Hate U Give
By Angie Stone
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
By Amanda Gorman and Oprah Winfrey (Foreword)
The Land
By Mildred D. Taylor
The New Jim Crow: Mass incarceration In the Age of Color Blindness
By Michelle Alexander
The Poet X
By Elizabeth Acevedo
The Skin I'm In
By Sharon Flake
The Undefeated
By Kwame Alexander and Kadir Nelson
The Watson's Go to Birmingham-1963
By Christopher Paul Curtis
This Is My America
By Kim Johnson
This Is Your Time
By Ruby Bridges
Trombone Shorty
By Troy Andrews, Bill Taylor and Bryan Collier
Tupac: Resurrection, 1971-1996
By Tupac Shukur
Uncle Jed’s Barber Shop
By Margaree King Mitchell and James E. Ransome
We Are Grateful
By Traci Sorell, Frane Lessac (Illustrated by)
We March
By Shane W. Evans
We Rise We Resist We Raise Our Voices
By Wade And Cheryl Willis Hudson and Others
Young Gifted and Black: Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present
By Jamia Wilson and Andrea Pippins
Yummy: The Last Days of a South Side Shorty
By G. Neri and Randy Duburk
