You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell
By: Leonard S. Marcus
4.10
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
What happens when freedom of expression comes under threat? In frank and wide-ranging interviews, h…
Want to Read $ 4.99"Intellectually I know free speech will prevail--it almost always does--and I know that some good conversations come out of it. But it's still harrowing to have to face such intolerance on your home ground, and it never feels good to know that people have to go through that."-Leonard S. Marcus, You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell
"Intellectually I know free speech will prevail--it almost always does--and I know that some good conversations come out of it. But it's still harrowing to have to face such intolerance on your home ground, and it never feels good to know that people have to go through that."-Leonard S. Marcus, You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell
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1. Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
By: Amy Krouse Rosenthal
3.95
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
If you're looking for quotes from newspapers and magazines, NPR, book reviews, endorsements from th… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- essays
- writing
"I think 90 percent of what/who we are is never really verbally communicated...."-Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
"It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling."-Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
"I always got the words pedestrian and Presbyterian confused. I didn't understand why Presbyterians always had the right of way."-Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
"Work must reflect the randomness of life, with its incessant, merciless, almost humorous bombardment of highly contrasting emotions and experiences."-Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
2. Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out
By: Susan Kuklin
3.80
Format: 182 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking work of LGBT literature takes an honest look at the life, love, and struggles of t… read more
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- biography
- teen
- banned books
- nonfiction
- essays
"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.…"-Susan Kuklin, Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out
"SK: What causes a person to be transgender? MS: I think the question should be flipped around: What’s the cause for assuming that one’s gender identity has to be the one that you are born with? When …"-Susan Kuklin, Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out
3. Hurricane Song
By: Paul Volponi
3.75
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Hurricane Katrina is raging and you are inside the Superdome! Miles has only lived in New Orleans w… read more
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- middle grade
- teen
- audiobook
Similar categories in Sholom Aleichem's Tevye the Milkman book and Leonard S. Marcus's You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell
- audiobook
5. City Boy
By: Herman Wouk
3.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
'City Boy' spins a hilarious and often touching tale of an urban kid's adventures and misadventures… read more
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6. The White Rose
By: Dorothee Sölle , Inge Aicher-Scholl
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
The White Rose tells the story of Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl, who in 1942 led a small undergroun… read more
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7. The Memory of Light
By: Francisco X. Stork
4.36
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
16-year-old Vicky Cruz wakes up in a hospital's mental ward after a failed suicide attempt. Now she… read more
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8. Tommy: The Gun That Changed America
By: Karen Blumenthal
3.66
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
John Taliaferro Thompson had a mission: to develop a lightweight, fast-firing weapon that would hel… read more
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9. Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes (Arsène Lupin, #2)
By: Maurice Leblanc
4.29
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
LeBlanc's creation, gentleman thief Arsene Lupin, is everything you would expect from a French aris… read more
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10. Mask of Shadows (Untitled #1)
By: Linsey Miller
3.67
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
I Needed to Win. They Needed to Die. Sallot Leon is a thief, and a good one at that. But gender flu… read more
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11. Mississippi Trial, 1955
By: Chris Crowe
3.00
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2003 International Reading Association Award for Young Adult Novel At first Hiram is … read more
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12. Attack of the Black Rectangles
By: Amy Sarig King
4.21
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic and finds some words… read more
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- middle grade
- books about books
- audiobook
"Why do they treat kids like we don't mean anything?"-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles
"If you're comfortable learning history, it's the wrong history."-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles
"I love banned books. I used to read as many to you as I could when you were little, Mac."-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles
"But if we want to change the world so it's good for everyone, it's important to talk about the truth."-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles
13. 28 Days
By: David Safier
4.29
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In Warsaw, Poland, in 1942, Mira faces impossible decisions after learning that the Warsaw ghetto i… read more
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- audiobook
"Es war ein wunderschöner Morgen. Es war ein schrecklicher Morgen."-David Safier, 28 Days
"Welcher Tod war schon sinnvoll? Welches Leben? Meins? Nein. Keins."-David Safier, 28 Days
"Ich aber lag wach, war ich doch von ihrer kleinen Fabel zutiefst erschrocken: Meine kleine Schwester wollte lieber sterben, als im Ghetto zu leben."-David Safier, 28 Days
"Wir Juden standen den Deutschen in Weg. Und was lag dahinter? Keine Ahnung. Die Weltherrschaft? Eine arische Gesellschaft? Die Glückseligkeit? Oder einfach nur ein virusfreies Leben? Wir waren Bazill…"-David Safier, 28 Days
14. The Family Chao
By: Lan Samantha Chang
3.35
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
The residents of Haven, Wisconsin, have dined on the Fine Chao Restaurant’s delicious Americanized … read more
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- audiobook
"Our inner selves exist. They're unique, and they're meaningful and mysterious, even if they are secret sometimes even from ourselves."-Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao
"After emotions are felt, expressed, where do they go? Is there a place where spent passion collects? Surely it can't simply vaporize, disappear like smoke. There must be a secret hiding place. For ev…"-Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao
"In Alf's close-up, he's less than a year old, almost unrecognizably puppyish. He gazes directly at James, head slightly cocked, bat ears unfolded in typical, unceasing alertness. His small black nose…"-Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao
"The half-dozen temple dogs circle him and Alf in a delirium of barking, clicking paws, and waving tails. They're mixed breeds, smooth-haired, ears neither floppy nor exactly pointed, and a few with t…"-Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao
15. You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell
By: Leonard S. Marcus
4.10
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
What happens when freedom of expression comes under threat? In frank and wide-ranging interviews, h… read more
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- biography
- teen
- middle grade
- banned books
- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
- education
- books about books
- audiobook
"Intellectually I know free speech will prevail--it almost always does--and I know that some good conversations come out of it. But it's still harrowing to have to face such intolerance on your home g…"-Leonard S. Marcus, You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell
16. As Fast As Her: Dream Big, Break Barriers, Achieve Success
By: Kendall Coyne
4.21
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In this inspiring book, US Olympian and hockey star Kendall Coyne shares the grit and determination… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
17. Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers
By: Geoffrey Cowan
3.45
Format: 2 pages, Audible Audio
Listening time = 1h 43m A timely docudrama about The Washington Posts decision to publish the Pent… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. Faraway: Fairy Tales for the Here and Now (Faraway 5 Book Collection)
By: Rainbow Rowell
3.36
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
None read more
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- audiobook
19. Punching Bag
By: Rex Ogle
4.49
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Punching Bag is the compelling true story of a high school career defined by poverty and punctuated… read more
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- middle grade
- teen
- audiobook
20. Out of the Blue
By: Jason June
3.62
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
Crest is not excited to be on their Journey: the monthlong sojourn on land all teen merfolk must un… read more
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- audiobook
"The blue knows what it's doing, if you just trust where it's taking you."-Jason June, Out of the Blue
"Maybe humans aren't as magicless as I thought. There's definitely some kind of power in movies."-Jason June, Out of the Blue
"Under the sea, we're all mer. We're all they/them. And we don't have this strange obsession with sex organs, since we don't have any."-Jason June, Out of the Blue
"He? Elder Crab warned us about this. About humans' obsession with gender, and how labels and rules mean so much to them when it comes to the body."-Jason June, Out of the Blue
21. You Are Here: Connecting Flights
By: Ellen Oh
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An incident at a TSA security check point sows chaos and rumors, creating a chain of events that im… read more
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- middle grade
- audiobook
"Being good was slippery. It didn't stay still; it moved around, and not only that, sometimes it meant exactly opposite things. Like, there were times when being good meant speaking up, but other time…"-Ellen Oh, You Are Here: Connecting Flights
22. Fractured Tide
By: Leslie Lutz
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Lost meets Stranger Things in this eerie, immersive YA thriller, thrusting seventeen-year-old Sia i… read more
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- audiobook
"You told me once the mind is an ocean, and most of us live on the surface. But the currents beneath, that’s what moves everything around. The currents make the boats shift position in the night, push…"-Leslie Lutz, Fractured Tide
23. Bump
By: Chiara Atik
3.45
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
2 men, 10 women A car mechanic on the verge of becoming a grandfather, a community of expectant … read more
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- audiobook
24. The School that Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler
By: Deborah Cadbury
4.38
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Named one of Book Riot's BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF 2022 The extraordinary true story of a courageous sch… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- education
- audiobook
25. The Getaway
By: Lamar Giles
3.74
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to the funnest spot around . . . Jay is living his best life at Karloff Country, one of … read more
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- teen
- audiobook
26. The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner
By: Marissa Moss
4.13
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
The gripping story of Lise Meitner, the physicist who discovered nuclear fission As a female Jew… read more
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- middle grade
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Life need not be easy, provided only that it is not empty." (Lise Meitner)"-Marissa Moss, The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner
27. Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party
By: Jetta Grace Martin
4.28
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Booklist Editors’ Choice WINNER of the Russell Freedman Award for Non-Fiction for a Better World … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
28. The Truth About White Lies
By: Olivia A. Cole
3.34
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
For fans of I'm Not Dying with You Tonight, this gripping YA novel digs into the historical and pre… read more
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- audiobook
29. This Rebel Heart
By: Katherine Locke
3.73
Format: 433 pages, Hardcover
A tale set amid the 1956 Hungarian revolution in post-WWII Communist Budapest. In the middle of … read more
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- audiobook
30. Rebuttal
By: Jyotsna Hariharan
3.39
Format: 2 pages, Audio CD
The Grand Prize winner of HarperCollins's audio drama contest. By turns amusing and angst-filled, t… read more
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- teen
- audiobook
31. Glory Days: Stories
By: Simon Rich
4.14
Format: 224 pages, Audiobook
The new collection of stories capturing the travails of aging Millennials from “one of the funniest… read more
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- essays
- audiobook
