Some of the Teen Books Challenged, Restricted, Removed or Banned in 2010 and 2011

	The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
	Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
	The Notebook Girls: Four Friends, One Diary, Real Life by Julia Baskin, Lindsey Newman, Sophie Pollitt-Cohen, and Courtney Toombs We started the notebook in freshman year at Stuyvesant High School as a way to keep in contact when our conflicting schedules denied us one another's company. We've spent a significant portion of our adolescence trying to figure out who we are. The notebook is the closest we've come. We're just a group of normal girls with normal lives. Our notebook is meant to make you laugh and make you remember.
	Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares As their lives take them in different directions, Lena, Tibby, Carmen, and Bridget discover many more things about themselves and the importance of their relationship with each other.
	House of Night Book 2: Betrayed by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast Fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird has managed to settle in at the House of Night. She's come to terms with the vast powers the vampyre goddess, Nyx, has given her, and is getting a handle on being the new Leader of the Dark Daughters. Best of all, Zoey finally feels like she belongs. She actually has a boyfriend or two. Then the unthinkable happens: Human teenagers are being killed, and all the evidence points to the House of Night.
	The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it, Charlie is navigating through the strange worlds of love, drugs, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," and dealing with the loss of a good friend and his favorite aunt.
	The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
	Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher Eric and Sarah have been friends since junior high, when his weight and her scars made them outcasts. In high school, Eric has slimmed and Sarah doesn't let being an outsider hurt her. Now she sits silent in a hospital. Can Eric uncover her secret before it puts them both in danger?
	Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Traces the life of the Jewish girl who hid with seven other people in an attic for two years in Nazi-occupied Holland and chronicled her day-to-day life in a diary which was discovered after her death in a German concentration camp.
	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.
	Alex Rider Adventures Book 7: Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz While working with the Australian Secret Service on a dangerous mission, teenaged spy Alex Rider uncovers information about his parents.
	Stolen Children by Peg Kehret Amy learned a lot in her babysitting course, but not what to do if two thugs show up, intent on kidnapping. Armed with misinformation and a weapon, the men take Amy and little Kendra to a remote cabin in the woods. There they make videos of the girls and mail them to Kendra’s wealthy parents in an effort to get ransom money. After several of her escape attempts fail, Amy is forced to make one last, desperate move.
	Vegan Virgin Valentine by Carolyn Mackler Mara has her senior year planned out and her sights set on Yale when her niece, who is only one year younger and opposite in temperament, moves in and disrupts Mara's life.
	Shooting Star by Fredrick McKissack, Jr. Jomo Rogers, a naturally talented athlete, starts taking performance enhancing drugs in order to be an even better high school football player, but finds his life spinning out of control as his game improves.
	ttyl by Lauren Myracle Chronicles, in IM format, the day-to-day experiences, feelings and plans of three friends, Zoe, Maddie and Angela.
	Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler While on vacation in California, sixteen-year-old best friends Anna and Frankie conspire to find a boy for Anna's first kiss, but Anna harbors a painful secret that threatens their lighthearted plan and their friendship.
	The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci Torey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast.
	One of those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies by Sonya Sones Fifteen-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt and her mother's grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born.
	Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology edited by Amy Sonnie Celebrating the future of gay and lesbian society, Sonnie presents a collection of experiences, ideas, dreams, and fantasies expressed through prose, poetry, artwork, letters, diaries, and performance pieces.
	Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poems from WritersCorps from WritersCorps Today my name is colorful. Yesterday my name was dead souls. Tomorrow my name will be lively spirits. My friends think my name is fire. The police think my name is burden. My parents think my name is symphony. Secretly I know my name is anything I want it to be.

Source: American Library Association