prohibited books

Looks at eighteen coming-of-age books for young adults that have been banned or challenged, each including a summary of the story and details on who attempted to ban the book and why, as well as information on who defended the freedom to read.

Looks at twenty outsider stories for young adults that have been banned or challenged, each including a summary of the book and details on who attempted to ban it and why, as well as information on who defended the freedom to read.

Explores the censorship histories of one hundred books that have been suppressed on political, religious, sexual, and social grounds.

Presents summaries, censorship histories, and further reading lists for over one hundred books that have been legally banned or otherwise censored at some point in history on sexual grounds; and includes brief author biographies and a general bibliography.