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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 GarcÃa
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
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