Age Inappropriateness

Books Banned for Age Inappropriateness

9 books · 725 total challenges

BANNED 224 challenges

Forever

by Judy Blume

Forever is Judy Blume's groundbreaking novel about Katherine and Michael, two teenagers who fall in love and make the de...

Sexual ContentAge Inappropriateness
BANNED 161 challenges

Speak

by Laurie Halse Anderson

Speak is Laurie Halse Anderson's award-winning novel about Melinda Sordino, a high school freshman who is ostracized aft...

Sexual ContentViolenceAge Inappropriateness
BANNED 151 challenges

Gender Queer: A Memoir

by Maia Kobabe

Gender Queer is a graphic memoir by Maia Kobabe that explores eir journey with gender identity and sexuality. The book h...

Sexual ContentLGBTQ+ ThemesAge Inappropriateness
BANNED 47 challenges

The Bluest Eye

by Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's debut novel, published in 1970, telling the story of Pecola Breedlove, a young Black g...

Sexual ContentRacial ContentViolence
BANNED 35 challenges

Beyond Magenta

by Susan Kuklin

Beyond Magenta presents the stories of six transgender and nonbinary teens through interviews and photographs. It has be...

LGBTQ+ ThemesSexual ContentAge Inappropriateness
BANNED 30 challenges

Living Dead Girl

by Elizabeth Scott

Living Dead Girl tells the story of Alice, a girl kidnapped at age ten and held captive by a predator for five years. Wr...

Sexual ContentViolenceAge Inappropriateness
BANNED 30 challenges

Push

by Sapphire

Push tells the story of Precious Jones, an illiterate, obese Black teenager in Harlem who has been raped repeatedly by h...

Sexual ContentViolenceLanguage
BANNED 25 challenges

Milk and Honey

by Rupi Kaur

Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry divided into four chapters dealing with survival, abuse, love, and femininity. ...

Sexual ContentViolenceAge Inappropriateness
BANNED 22 challenges

A Stolen Life

by Jaycee Dugard

A Stolen Life is Jaycee Dugard's memoir of being kidnapped at age eleven and held captive for eighteen years by Phillip ...

Sexual ContentViolenceAge Inappropriateness