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  • Collection: Freedom to Read

Dirty Beasts

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This book is a collection of nine poems about the unusual exploits of animals. The pig, realizing that he was born to be eaten, eats his farmer instead. The crocodile eats six children each Saturday. The lion proclaims that the narrator of the poem…

The Chocolate War

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This book is narrated from alternating third-person perspectives and is set at Trinity School, a preparatory, all-boys, Catholic high school.. The two most common voices are those of Jerry Renault, a solitary first-year and protagonist of the story,…

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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This book follows an introverted, high school freshman, Charlie, who befriends two seniors, Patrick and Sam, and starts to experiment with alcohol, drugs, and smoking. As he manages his new social life and his feelings towards Sam, Patrick's…

The Hoax of the Twentieth Century

Written by A. R. Butz, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, this book is the first book to deny that Nazi Germany tried to exterminate the Jews during the Holocaust. It continues to be a major revisionist reference work.

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Forever...

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This book explores the complexities of relationships and teenage sexuality through Katherine's and Michael's relationship. The two high school students grow in their relationship with one another, then, after having sex together for the first time…

I Know why the Caged Bird Sings

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In this coming of age story, which is the first in a seven volume series, Maya recounts her early childhood through to when she became a mother at the age of 17. She recounts her rape at age 8, and explores how a love of literature and character…

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

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In this semi-biographical, coming-of-age story, told in first-person narrative, a Native-American teen, Arnold Spirit Jr. (referred to as “Junior” throughout the book) details his experience attending an all-white public high school in the…

All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir Manifesto

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A New York Times Bestseller and the #1 Most Challenged Book in America according to the American Library Association

In a series of personal essays, award-winning author and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue explores their…

1984

Set in a dystopian future where three global superpowers have divided the world, and exist in a state of perpetual war. In order to maintain their hold on power, these three states will go to any lengths to keep their populations docile and…

A Child Called 'It'

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"Brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable and alcoholic mother, Dave became a slave; he was no longer a boy, but an ‘it’. His bed was an old army cot in the basement, his clothes torn and unwashed, and when he was allowed the luxury of…