Censorship and Freedom of Expression in Young Adult Fiction

After by Francine Prose: In the aftermath of a nearby school shooting, a grief and crisis counselor takes over Central High School and enacts increasingly harsh measures to control students, while those who do not comply disappear.
YAFICT PROSE FRANCINE After
Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You by Dorian Cirrone: Sixteen-year-old Kayla, a ballet dancer, and her sister Paterson, an artist, are both helped and hindered by classmates as they confront sexism, conformity, and censorship at their high school for the arts while still managing to maintain their sense of humor.
NEW YAFICT CIRRONE DORIAN Dancing
The Giver by Lois Lowry: Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.
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The Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick: In a future where civilization has been destroyed, one old man named Ryter has a crazy idea to write a book, even though he may be punished by death for doing so, in a chilling and inspiring story by the author of Freak the Mighty.
YAFICT PHILBRICK, W.R. Last boo ; JPBK
Memoirs of a Bookbat by Kathryn Lasky: Fourteen-year-old Harper, an avid reader of fantasy who must hide her books from her fundamentalist parents, comes to realize that their public promotion of censorship threatens her freedom to make her own choices.
YPBK L
Nothing But the Truth: A Documentary Novel by Avi: A ninth-grader's suspension for singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" during homeroom becomes a national news story.
JF AVI Nothing ; YPBK A
Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood by Benjamin Alire SÁenz: As a Chicano boy living in Hollywood, New Mexico, and a member of the graduating class of 1969, Sammy Santos faces the challenges of "gringo" racism, unpopular dress codes, the Vietnam War, barrio violence, and poverty.
YAFICT SAENZ BENJAMIN Sammy
The Sledding Hill by Chris Crutcher: Billy, recently deceased, keeps an eye on his best friend, fourteen-year-old Eddie, who has added to his home and school problems by becoming mute, and helps him stand up to a conservative minister and English teacher who is orchestrating a censorship challenge.
NEW YA FICT CRUTCHER, CHRIS Sledding
The Year They Burned the Books by Nancy Garden: Jamie Crawford inadvertently ends up in the center of a storm of controversy after she writes a piece for her school newspaper in favor of the new sex education curriculum, which favors condom distribution.
YA FICT GARDEN, NANCY Year the