Books Banned in South Carolina
15 banned books
Forever
Forever is Judy Blume's groundbreaking novel about Katherine and Michael, two teenagers who fall in love and make the de...
The Color Purple
The Color Purple is Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning epistolary novel about Celie, a young Black woman in the rural...
Nineteen Minutes
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult examines a school shooting and its aftermath through multiple perspectives, exploring b...
Looking for Alaska
Looking for Alaska is John Green's debut novel about a teenager who enrolls at a boarding school and falls for the brill...
The Hate U Give
The Hate U Give follows sixteen-year-old Starr Carter, who witnesses the fatal shooting of her unarmed childhood friend ...
All Boys Aren't Blue
All Boys Aren't Blue is George M. Johnson's young adult memoir about growing up Black and queer in New Jersey and Virgin...
Lawn Boy
Lawn Boy is Jonathan Evison's coming-of-age novel about Mike Muñoz, a young Mexican-American man working as a landscaper...
Thirteen Reasons Why
Thirteen Reasons Why follows high school student Clay Jensen as he listens to cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, a...
The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner follows Amir, the son of a wealthy Kabul businessman, and his complicated relationship with Hassan, the ...
Out of Darkness
Out of Darkness is a historical novel set in 1937 East Texas, interweaving a forbidden interracial love story between a ...
The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale is Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel set in Gilead, a totalitarian theocracy that has replaced the U...
This Book Is Gay
This Book Is Gay is a nonfiction guide for LGBTQ+ teens and their allies, covering topics from coming out to safe sex to...
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Stamped is a young adult adaptation of Ibram X. Kendi's Stamped from the Beginning, remixed by Jason Reynolds to trace t...
Water for Elephants
Water for Elephants is a historical novel set in a Depression-era traveling circus, following veterinary student Jacob J...
Like a Love Story
Like a Love Story follows three teenagers in 1989 New York City navigating love, identity, and the AIDS crisis. It has b...