Use OneSearch, Advanced Search to search for YA books. In the first box type CSULB Children's Collection and in the second box search title, author, or keyword.
For Fiction: Limit your location to Children's Young Adult Fiction under location on the left side of the screen. All YA Fiction will have call numbers starting PZ7.5 and then the first four letters of the author's name.
For Nonfiction: YA non-fiction is located throughout the children's collection, find the general call number area for your topic, and head over there to pick out the best books for your age group.
Search for articles about YA literature using these databases:
Book removal harms children in that they won’t see themselves represented and won’t learn about other people’s lives.
Nikki Grimes- “When it comes to sexual abuse, what is inappropriate—not to mention criminal—is the abuse itself. Writing about that abuse is both appropriate and necessary. Teens need to know that sexual assault is not a secret to keep.” -Publisher's Weekly
John Green - In his 2008 video, Green said that “it pisses me off when small groups of well-organized would-be book banners try to take over America’s public school systems.” “Little did I know how organized those groups would become in their attempts to take over America’s school systems,” -The Independent
Mindy McGinnis - “If they say this book is inappropriate for their child, that is their call, and that is fine,” McGinnis said. “When they say this book is inappropriate for all the children, and no one is allowed to have it, that’s censorship — and that’s when we have a problem.” -Columbian Missourian
Angie Thomas - "Thomas added that books like hers are seen as dangerous because of the immense power they have to create change through empathy." -LA Times
Sherman Alexie - "When they ban or challenge a book, it instantly makes it prime reading material for that community." - Poets & Writers
Jason Reynolds - "It feels insulting . . . and maddening. It hurts my feelings. You think I would write something that I deemed inappropriate or that I thought was harmful or unsafe for the most vulnerable and the most human amongst us? Absolutely not." - People Magazine
Elana K. Arnold - "I have 16 titles that have been banned or challenged — the second largest list of targeted books of any American author, according to PEN America. My job is to create more art, and giving too much space in my head to ignorant, bullying people who want to strip all children of access to a diverse, vibrant body of literature does not serve my art. In general, though, I can tell you that the arguments against my young adult novels (the books that are most commonly challenged) include claims that they are pornographic, anti-Christian, support abortion and are pervasively vulgar. I shouldn’t need to say this, but my novels are none of these things. They explore and reflect the fascinating, complex, sometimes bloody, fraught, dangerous experiences and emotions of my own coming-of-age." - LA Parent
Here are the 4 books banned by the SC State Board of Education today. No public school in SC can have these books because 1 person filed a complaint. The board arbitrarily applies regulation 43.170 in order to force State Superintendent Ellen Weaver 's Moms 4 Liberty agenda through the public education system.
