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Prince & knight volume 1
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Challenged for LGBTQIA+ content, gay marriage, and religious viewpoint.
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Handmaid's tale volume 1
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Challenged for sexual references and language.
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Challenged for LGBTQIA+ content.
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Challenged for its language and sexual explicitness.
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7) Beloved
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Challenged for its language and violence, and for sexual content, and racism.
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Challenged for its language, explicitness, and racial and religious viewpoints.
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Banned, challenged, and restricted for LGBTQIA+ content and sexually explicit images.
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10) The hate u give
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Banned and challenged for profanity, violence, and because it was thought to promote an anti-police message and indoctrination of a social agenda.
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11) Out of darkness
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Banned, challenged, and restricted for depictions of abuse and sexual content.
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Banned and challenged because it was considered sexually explicit and degrading to women.
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Banned and challenged for profanity, sexual references and use of a derogatory term.
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14) This book is gay
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Banned, challenged, and restricted for providing sexual education and LGBTQIA+ content.
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Banned and challenged for LGBTQIA+ content, profanity, and sexual content.
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To kill a mockingbird volume 1
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Banned and challenged for racial slurs and their negative effect on students, featuring a “white savior” character, and its perception of the Black experience.
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17) Speak
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Banned, challenged, and restricted because it was thought to contain a political viewpoint, it was claimed to be biased against male students, and for the novel’s inclusion of rape and profanity.
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Banned and challenged for LGBTQIA+ content and because it was considered to be sexually explicit.
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Challenged for “divisive language” and because it was thought to promote anti-police views.
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Banned and challenged for profanity, drug use, and alcoholism, and because it was thought to promote anti-police views.
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