Book Résumés
Book Résumés help teachers, librarians, parents, and community members defend books from censorship. They detail each title’s significance and educational value and are easy to share with administrators, book review committees, elected officials, and board members.
Bookmark this page! Thousands of library books face censorship, so new book résumés are added on a regular basis.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Apartment House on Poppy Hill
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Baby Tree
The Beauty of Darkness
The Best at It
The Best Man
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir
The Big Bath House
The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person
The Bluest Eye
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore
The Bridge
The Carnival at Bray
The Color Purple
The Day You Begin
The Deep & Dark Blue
The Downstairs Girl
The Extraordinaries
The Family Book
The Fault in Our Stars
The Fight
The Unite Against Book Bans campaign is organized by the American Library Association and was launched with the generous support of the Steve & Loree Potash Family Foundation and the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.
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