― John Green, Looking for Alaska
Challenged|Banned for: Sexually explicit content.
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BANNED: Looking for Alaska “When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.” ― John Green, Looking for Alaska This book is banned around the world but at PRHS you are always allowed to enjoy your intellectual freedom. Check out a banned book today!
Challenged|Banned for: Sexually explicit content. BANNED: Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out “But when you hear the same stories over and over again, from people from all over the world, you start realizing that transgender is not an anomaly. It’s a part of the spectrum of people’s realities. Then you stop wondering about the cause and you start realizing it’s a part of reality.” ― Susan Kuklin, Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out This book is banned around the world but at PRHS you are always allowed to enjoy your intellectual freedom. Check out a banned book today!
Challenged|Banned for: Anti-family, offensive language, homosexuality, sex education, political viewpoints, religious viewpoints and other wants to remove from collection to ward off complaints. BANNED: Crank “I hate this feeling. Like I'm here, but I'm not. Like someone cares. But they don't. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and escape lies just past that snowy window, cool and crisp as the February air.” ― Ellen Hopkins, Crank This book is banned around the world but at PRHS you are always allowed to enjoy your intellectual freedom. Check out a banned book today!
Challenged|Banned for: Drugs, offensive language and sexually explicit content. BANNED: The Perks of Being a Wallflower “There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.” ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower This book is banned around the world but at PRHS you are always allowed to enjoy your intellectual freedom. Check out a banned book today!
Challenged|Banned for: Drugs, alcohol, smoking, homosexuality, offensive language, sexually explicit content, date rape and masturbation. BANNED: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon “Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are.” ― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time This book is banned around the world but at PRHS you are always allowed to enjoy your intellectual freedom. Check out a banned book today!
Challenged|Banned for: Offensive language, religious viewpoint, profanity and atheism. BANNED: eleanor & park “Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.” ― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park This book is banned around the world but at PRHS you are always allowed to enjoy your intellectual freedom. Check out a banned book today!
Challenged|Banned for: Offensive language. BANNED: The Kite Runner “It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...” ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner This book is banned around the world but at PRHS you are always allowed to enjoy your intellectual freedom. Check out a banned book today!
Challenged|Banned for: Sexual violence and thought to “lead to terrorism” and “promote Islam.” BANNED: The Absolute True Story of a Part-Time Indian “I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.” ― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian This book is banned around the world but at PRHS you are always allowed to enjoy your intellectual freedom. Check out a banned book today!
Challenged|Banned for: Poverty, alcoholism, sexuality, profanity and sexually explicit content. BANNED: This One Summer “Don't worry about any of this stuff, okay? It's all just adult junk that doesn't mean anything.” ― Jillian Tamaki, This One Summer This book is banned around the world but at PRHS you are always allowed to enjoy your intellectual freedom. Check out a banned book today.
Challenged|Banned for: LGBT characters, sexually explicit content and offensive political viewpoints. BANNED: Thirteen Reasons Why “You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everything. . . affects everything.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why This book is banned around the world but at PRHS you are always allowed to enjoy your intellectual freedom. Check out a banned book today! Challenged|Banned for: Drugs, alcohol, smoking, sexually explicit content and suicide. |
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