In 2019, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Jean Mendoza and Debbie Reese released the young people’s edition of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People. This book provides Native Americans a voice in US history. There’s an old African proverb, “he who controls the pen, controls the history”. It is, after all, a story.… Read More banned voices: Jean Mendoza and Debbie Reese

Zetta Elliott is an author of over 40 books. A list of her books is quite impressive now, but that wasn’t always the case. Even with Bird, her first picture book receiving much acclaim, Elliott’s work met rejection after rejection. She eventually began publishing her own books. Finally, in 2010 Skyscape published her young adult… Read More banned voices: Zetta Elliott

When New Kid by Jerry Craft Wait! this isn’t just ‘New Kid” this is Newbery Award winning New Kid! When Newbery Award winning New Kid by Jerry Craft started appearing on the lists of challenged books, we knew thing were being taken to a whole new level. While many listed books were somehow aligned with… Read More banned voices: Jerry Craft

from the publisher: Justyce McAllister is a good kid, an honor student, and always there to help a friend—but none of that matters to the police officer who just put him in handcuffs. Despite leaving his rough neighborhood behind, he can’t escape the scorn of his former peers or the ridicule of his new classmates.… Read More banned voices: Nic Stone

Happy Families (Knopf, 2012) from the publisher: Teenage twins Ysabel and Justin Nicholas are lucky. Ysabel’s jewelry designs have already caught the eyes of the art world and Justin’s intelligence and drive are sure to gain him entrance into the most prestigious of colleges. They even like their parents. But their father has a secret… Read More Banned Voices: Tanita S. Davis