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Questionable Books in Public Schools Today
Parents, the books listed below contain questionable and inappropriate content. We encourage you to research each book your child brings home from school, and then make your own decision as to whether or not you wish your child to read it.
If your child is assigned to read one or more of these questionable books, or one or more of these books are in the school library or the teacher's classroom library, please contact us using our school incident report form.
Thank you to the Florida Citizens Alliance, and Collier County, FL for compiling the following list.
Title | Writer |
|---|---|
A Court of Mist and Fury | Sarah J. Maas |
A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo | Jill Twiss |
A Phoenix First Must Burn: Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance, and Hope | Patrice Caldwell |
Ace of Spades | Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé |
Adam | Ariel Schrag |
All American Boys | Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely |
All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto | George M. Johnson |
All the Bright Places | Jennifer Niven |
Almost Perfect | Brian Katcher |
And Tango Makes Three | Justin Richardson, Peter Parnell |
Another Day (Every Day) | David Levithan |
Antiracist Baby | Ibram X. Kendi |
Ask a Queer Chick: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life for Girls Who Dig Girls | Lindsay King-Miller |
Ask Me How I Got Here | Christine Heppermann |
Autoboyography | Christina Lauren |
Beautiful | Amy Reed |
Beautiful Bastard | Christina Lauren |
Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen | Jazz Jennings |
Beloved | Toni Morrison |
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out | Susan Kuklin |
Beyond Male and Female: The Gender Identity Spectrum | Anita R. Walker |
Beyond the Gender Binary | Alok Vaid-Menon |
Birthday: A love story for fans of One Day and Love, Simon | Meredith Russo |
Birthday: A Novel | Meredith Russo |
Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard | Echo Brown |
Blankets | Craig Thompson |
Boy2Girl | Terence Blacker |
Brave Face: A Memoir | Shaun David Hutchinson |
Breathless | Jennifer Niven |
Celebrate Your Body 2: The Ultimate Puberty Book for Preteen and Teen Girls | Lisa Klein, Carrie Leff |
Cemetery Boys | Aiden Thomas |
Cinderella is Dead | Kalynn Bayron |
Clap When You Land | Elizabeth Acevedo |
Crank (The Crank Trilogy) | Ellen Hopkins |
Daddy's Roommate (Alyson Wonderland) | Michael Willhoite |
Dead End | Jason Myers |
Dead Until Dark | Charlaine Harris |
Dear Martin | Nic Stone |
DECELERATE BLUE | Adam Rapp |
Doing It Right: Making Smart, Safe, and Satisfying Choices about Sex | Bronwen Pardes |
Doing It! | Hannah Witton |
Drama: A Graphic Novel | Raina Telgemeier |
Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War | Robert K. Massie |
Dreaming In Cuban | Cristina García |
Dress Codes for Small Towns | Courtney C. Stevens |
Embrace (The Violet Eden Chapters) | Jessica Shirvington |
Every Day | David Levithan |
Everywhere Babies | Susan Meyers, Marla Frazee |
Exit Here. | Jason Myers |
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | Jonathan Safran Foer |
Fates And Furies | Lauren Groff |
Fifty Shades of Grey | E. L. James |
Firsts: A Novel | Laurie Elizabeth Flynn |
Flashcards of My Life: A Novel | Charise Mericle Harper |
Fly On The Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything | E. Lockhart |
Forever... | Judy Blume |
Full Disclosure | Camryn Garrett |
Gender Identity: Beyond Pronouns and Bathrooms (Inquire & Investigate) | Maria Cook |
Gender Queer: A Memoir | Maia Kobabe |
Ghost Boys | Jewell Parker Rhodes |
Girls on the Verge | Sharon Biggs Waller |
Graceling Realm Series | Kristin Cashore |
grl2grl: Short fictions | Julie Anne Peters |
Home at Last | Vera B Williams, Chris Raschka |
Homegoing | Yaa Gyasi |
How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship, and Musical Theater | Marc Acito |
How to Be an Antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi |
I Am Jazz | Jessica Herthel, Jazz Jennings |
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou |
I Think I Love You | Auriane Desombre |
Identical | Ellen Hopkins |
If I was Your Girl | Meredith Russo |
Introducing Teddy: A gentle story about gender and friendship | Jessica Walton, Dougal MacPherson |
It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity | Theresa Thorn |
It's Not Like It's a Secret | Misa Sugiura |
It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health | Robie H. Harris |
Jacob’s New Dress | Ian Hoffman, Sarah Hoffman |
Jesus Land: A Memoir | Julia Scheeres |
Julián Is a Mermaid | Jessica Love |
Kiki: Doin' It (Juicy Central) | Ayshia Monroe |
Killing Mr. Griffin | Lois Duncan |
l8r, g8r (Internet Girls) | Lauren Myracle |
Lawn Boy | Jonathan Evison |
Let's Talk About Love | Claire Kann |
Lexicon: A Novel | Max Berry |
Living Proud! Being Transgender | Robert Rodi, Laura Ross |
Looking for Alaska | John Green |
LUSH | Natasha Friend |
Max and Friends Book Series | Kyle Lukoff, Luciano Lozano |
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl | Jesse Andrews |
Melissa (formerly "George") | Alex Gino |
Mommy, Mama, and Me | Lesléa Newman |
Monday's Not Coming | Tiffany D. Jackson |
More Happy Than Not | Adam Silvera |
Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress | Christine Baldacchino |
My Princess Boy | Cheryl Kilodavis |
Nineteen Minutes | Jodi Picoult |
Normal People: A Novel | Sally Rooney |
Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness (Ordinary Terrible Things) | Anastasia Higginbotham |
Not My Problem | Ciara Smyth |
Odd One Out | Nic Stone |
Once & Future | Amy Rose Capetta |
Our Own Private Universe | Robin Talley |
Out of Darkness | Ashley Hope Pérez |
Outlander | Diana Gabaldon |
Perfect | Ellen Hopkins |
Pet | Emezi Akwaeke |
Phoenix Goes to School: A Story to Support Transgender and Gender Diverse Children | Phoenix Finch, Michelle Finch |
Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag | Rob Sanders |
Prince & Knight | Daniel Haack |
Rabbit is Rich | John Updike |
Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, plural. If my life weren't complicated, I wouldn't be Ruby Oliver | E. Lockhart |
Red: A Crayon’s Story | Michael Hall |
Rick | Alex Gino |
Rift | Andrea Cremer |
S.E.X.: The All-You-Need-To-Know Sexuality Guide to Get You Through Your Teens and Twenties | Heather Corinna |
Seeing Gender: An Illustrated Guide to Identity and Expression | Iris Gottlieb |
Sex Is a Funny Word: A Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU | Cory Silverberg |
Sex Plus: Learning, Loving, and Enjoying Your Body | Laci
Green |
Sex: A Book for Teens: An Uncensored Guide to Your Body, Sex, and Safety | Nikol Hasler |
Sissy: A Coming of Gender Story | Jacob Tobia |
Sloppy Firsts (Jessica Darling) | Megan McCafferty |
Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story About Racial Injustice | Marianne Celano, Donald Moses |
Sparkle Boy | Leslea Newman |
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America | Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi |
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You | Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi |
Th1rteen R3asons Why | Jay Asher |
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives | Dashka Slater |
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian | Sherman Alexie |
The Art of Being Normal: Secrets Never Stay Secret for Long | Lisa Williamson |
The Berlin Boxing Club | Robert Sharenow |
The Black Flamingo | Dean Atta |
The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison |
The Breakaways | Cathy G. Johnson |
The Family Book | Todd Parr |
The Family Fletcher Takes Rock Island | Dana Alison Levy |
The Gender Quest Workbook: A Guide For Teens And Young Adults Exploring Gender Identity | Rylan
Jay Testa, Deborah Coolhart, And
Jayme Peta |
The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls |
The God of Small Things: A Novel | Arundhati Roy |
The Hate U Give | Angie Thomas |
The Haters | Jesse Andrews |
The Infinitive Moment of Us | Lauren Myracle |
The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini |
The Miseducation of Cameron Post | Emily M. Danforth |
The New Queer Conscience | Adam Eli |
The Peacock Among Pigeons | Tyler Curry, Clarione Gutierrez |
The Purim Superhero | Elisabeth Kushner |
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them | Junauda Petrus |
The Temptation of Adam: A Novel | Dave Connis |
The Truth About Alice: A Novel | Jennifer Mathieu |
The Vincent Boys | Abbi Glines |
The You I've Never Known | Ellen Hopkins |
They Both Die at the End | Adam Silvera |
This Book Is Gay | Juno Dawson |
This Day In June | Gayle E. Pitman |
This One Summer | Mariko Tamaki |
Traffick | Ellen Hopkins |
Trans+: Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You | Kathryn Gonzales, Karen Rayne |
Triangles: A Novel | Ellen Hopkins |
Tricks | Ellen Hopkins |
TTFN (Internet Girls) | Lauren Myracle |
Two Boys Kissing | David Levithan |
Two Dads: A book about adoption | Carolyn Robertson |
Unpregnant | Jenni Hendriks, Ted Caplan |
Unravel Me (Shatter Me) | Tahereh Mafi |
Vampire Acedemy (1) | Richelle Mead |
Wait, What?: A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies, and Growing Up | Heather Corinna And
Isabella Rotman |
Water for Elephants: A Novel | Sara Gruen |
What Girls Are Made Of | Elena K. Arnold |
When Aidan Became a Brother | Kyle Lukoff |
Who Are You?: The Kid's Guide to Gender Identity | Brook Pessin-Whedbee |
Wide Awake | David Levithan |
Woke: A Guide to Social Justice | Titania McGrath |
Worm Loves Worm | J. J. Austrian |
A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl | Tanya Lee Stone |
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