Books with a Focus on Homosexuality, Sex, Violence & Other Offensive Content
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Alice on the Outside

Annie On My Mind

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

Are You In The House Alone?

Athletic Shorts

Baby Be-Bop

Bless Me, Ultima

The Bluest Eye

The Book Of Phoebe

The Chocolate War

The Dear One

Empress of the World

Exodus

FADE

The Family Book

The Forgotten Victims of the Holocaust

Free to be a Family

Free to be … you and me

From The Notebooks Of Melanin Sun

The Giver

Go Ask Alice

The Handmaid's Tale

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

The Joy Luck Club

Keesha’s House

The Moves Make the Man

My Father's Scar

My Heartbeat

Ragtime

The Rainbow Kite

The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold

SPEAK

Tenderness

Then Again, Maybe I Won’t

Twelve Days in August

Violet & Claire

Weetzie Bat

Whistle Me Home

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