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.
Ash
Banned Book Club
Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender Teen)
Being You: A First Conversation About Gender
Beloved
Between Shades of Gray
Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out
Beyond the Gender Binary
Black Brother, Black Brother
Black is a Rainbow Color
Black Like Me
Black Lives Matter: From Hashtag to the Streets
Bless Me, Ultima
Born A Crime
Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope
Boy Erased
Boy Meets Boy
Brave Face
Breathless
Brown Girl Dreaming
Calvin
Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship
Change Sings
Cinder
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