Banned Books Week: Challenged Books

Join our Banned Books Scavenger Hunt! Use the clues on this sheet to figure out which banned or challenged book they describe, then find one of those books in the stacks and bring it to the circulation desk. When you do, you’ll get a goodie bag and be entered into a drawing for larger prizes. Each participant may only turn in one book, but don’t worry, each title can be found by as many people as want to play. Happy hunting!

1. In this dystopia, women wear red, answer to “Handmaid,” and live under constant control.
2. A crew of misfits pulling off the most impossible heist in Ketterdam
3. A shy freshman writes letters about friendship, trauma, and learning to “participate.”
4. A televised fight to the death forces kids to play for survival while the whole world watches.
5. A fuzzy orange mustache and a warning: once the trees are gone, so is hope.
6. Two prank-loving kids accidentally create a tighty-whitey-wearing superhero.
7. A world where Big Brother watches everything and even thoughts aren’t safe.
8. In a perfect-looking community, a boy discovers memories of color, pain, and real freedom.
9. Firemen start fires instead of stopping them, burning books to keep people from thinking.
10. Two migrant workers cling to dreams of rabbits and land during the Great Depression.
11. A boarding school student searches for his “Great Perhaps” and wrestles with loss.
12. A mortal’s arrow pulls her into the fae’s deadly bargain.
13. A Native teen uses humor and comics to navigate life between two worlds.
14. A teenage girl takes a stand after witnessing a police shooting.
15. A soldier becomes “unstuck in time,” drifting between war, aliens, and fate.