Ferry, Beth
Summary: When Julius, a young lion, sees library books removed from the library, he realizes the power of his voice and uses his roar to advocate for the value of all books.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FERHaldar, Raj
Summary: This is a book about dinosaurs. No it's not. Dinosaurs are not allowed. Oh. This is now a book about avocados! Sorry. We deleted those too. FINE. This book is about--nope! Forbidden! Maybe you shouldn't even try reading this book...But what could possibly be inside? Discover just what can happen when ideas are erased instead of expressed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks eXplore 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HALCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HALAhmed, Samira
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AHMKing, A. S. (Amy Sarig)
Summary: When sixth-grader Mac discovers several words of his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic are blacked out he is outraged, so he, his friends, and his eccentric family set out to do something about the censorship imposed by one teacher and the school board.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2022
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction KingNijkamp, Marieke
Summary: Eleven-year-old Cinzia is a printer’s apprentice. She adores Mestra Aronne for taking her in—most guilds don’t have room for apprentices with a crippled leg—and she loves life in the raggedy workshop that smells of paper and printing, where secrets and stories are always circulating. So when Mestra Aronne is imprisoned for publishing accusations against the ruling family, Cinzia will do...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, Harper Alley, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 NIJGreen, Simon James
Summary: A love story that begins in the margins... It's 1994 and thanks to Section 28, there can be no mention of gay relationships in UK schools. When a kind librarian leads Jamie to a disguised novel in the library that reflects his own confused feelings towards boys, Jamie sees that he's not the only one who has checked the book out. Will Jamie and this mystery boy have the courage to meet--and if...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRELevy, Dana Alison
Summary: No matter what was going on in Molly's life at home, she always had book club at school. Whether she's dealing with a death in the family or her parents' breaking the news they want to move, she is able to read a new book and escape life...even if it is just for a little bit. But when someone anonymously notifies school boards about a controversial book in the classroom, her favorite teacher...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2024
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Summary: "When Donovan left his copy of The Adventurers on the kitchen counter, he didn't think his mom would read it--much less have a problem with it. It's just an adventure novel about two characters trying to stop an evil genius...right? But soon the entire town is freaking out about whether the book's main characters are gay, Donovan's mom is trying to get the book removed from the school...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEVGrabenstein, Chris.
Summary: "Mr. Lemoncello has invited teams from all across America to compete in the first ever Library Olympics ... but someone is trying to censor what the kids are reading"--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library, an imprint of the Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD GRAReynolds, Jason
Summary: During Mile's in-school suspension, he finds himself in a fierce battle with a classmate turned insidious termite who is determined to destroy books and the Black and Brown history they contain, and only Miles can stop him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC REYKing, A. S. (Amy Sarig)
Summary: When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devils Arithmetic and finds some words blacked out, he thinks it must be a mistake. But then when he and his friends discover what the missing words are, he's outraged. Someone in his school is trying to prevent kids from reading the full story. But who? Even though his unreliable dad tells him to not get so emotional about a book (or...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC KINSummary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CLIWillems, Mo
Summary: Piggie is upset because a whale took the ball she found, but Gerald finds a solution that pleases all of them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group 2015
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR GREEN SPANISH WILAlessandri, Alexandra
Summary: "English just feels wrong to Isabel. She prefers her native Spanish. As she prepares for a new school, she knows she's going to have to learn. Her first day is uncomfortable, until she employs her crayons and discovers there's more than one way to communicate with new friends"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ALECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALESpencer, Renè
Summary: Two children lost at sea must overcome a language barrier if they want to find a way home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SPEWillems, Mo
Summary: Geraldo está cansado y gruñón. ¿Soñará con Cerdita? ¿O ella no lo dejará soñar?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2021