Updated Apr 2, 2024
Library Materials Informal Reconsideration
The following titles have been reviewed at the District level through the Informal reconsideration process as set out in Board Policy EFB Local Instructional Resources-Library Materials. Books that do not meet the selection criteria set out in Board Policy EFB Local, or that have low circulation, are in poor physical condition or that are dated are removed from library collections. The Board of Trustees changed its selection criteria in November 2023. The references to selection criteria numbers below will reflect the selection criteria of the policy in effect at the time the review occurred.
Informal Reconsideration- Titles Retained
Title | Author | Review Date | Location |
ABC’s of LGBT | Mardell, A. | December 2023 | High School |
Angus, Thongs, Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson | Rennison, Louise | October 2023 | Junior High High School |
A Very, Very Bad Thing | Self, J. | November 2023 | High School |
Boy Meets Boy | Levithan, D. | November 2023 | High School |
Brave New World | Huxley, A. | March 2023 | High School |
Drag Teen | Self, J. | December 2023 | High School |
Emergency Contact | Choi, M. | August 2023 | High School |
Everything You Need to Know About Nonbinary Gender Identities | McCormick, A. | December 2023 | High School |
Female to Male Transgender and Transmasculine Identities | Alber, J. | December 2023 | High School |
Fifty-Four Things Wrong with Gwendolyn Rogers | Carter, C. | December 2023 | Intermediate Junior High |
Firekeeper’s Daughter | Boulley, A. | January 2024 | High School |
Gender Fulfilled | Anthony, J. | December 2023 | Junior High High School |
Moonflower | Callender, K. | December 2023 | Intermediate Junior High |
Sex and Gender: A Reference Handbook | Newton, D. | December 2023 | High School |
Spinning | Walden, T. | January 2024 | High School |
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian | Alexie, S. | January 2024 | Junior High High School |
The Deep and Dark Blue | Smith, Niki | December 2023 | Elementary Intermediate Junior High |
The Hate U Give | Thomas, A. | May 2023 | High School |
The Misfits | Howe, J. | December 2023 | Intermediate Junior High High School |
The Other Boy | Hennessey, M. | December 2023 | Junior High High School |
This is Our Rainbow | Locke, K. | December 2023 | Intermediate |
Too Bright to See | Lukoff, K. | December 2023 | Intermediate Junior High High School |
Unravel Me | Mafi, T. | October 2023 | High School |
Victoria and the Rogue | Cabot, M. | February 2024 | Junior High High School |
White Privilege | Blakemore, M. | November 2023 | Junior High High School |
You Don’t Know Everything, Jilly P! | Gino, A. | December 2023 | Elementary Intermediate Junior High |
Informal Reconsideration- Titles Removed
Title | Author | Date | Reason |
A Lesson in Vengeance | Lee, V. | October 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
All Boys Aren’t Blue | Johnson, G. | November 2022 | Selection criteria 1 |
All the Things We Do in the Dark | Mitchell, S. | October 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
All Your Perfects | Hoover, C. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Allegedly | Jackson, T. | October 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Almost Perfect | Katcher, B. | October 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
American Gods | Gaiman, N. | December 2023 | Selection criteria 1, 4 |
American Psycho | Ellis, B. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Ask the Passengers | A.S. King | November 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Asking for It | O’Neill, L. | February 2024 | Selection criteria 1, 4 |
Assassination Classroom MANGA series | Matsui, Y. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Beautiful | Reed, A. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Be Gay, Do Comics | Bors, M. | September 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Beyond Magenta | Kuklin, S. | November 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Blazed | Myers, J. | March 2023 | Low circulation |
Boy Toy | Lyga, B. | September 2023 | Low circulation |
Breathless | Niven, J. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Bumped | McCafferty, M. | November 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Burned | Hopkins, E. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Cool for the Summer | Adler, D. | October 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Crank | Hopkins, E. | October 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Damsel | Arnold, E. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Dime | Frank, E. | November 2023 | Low circulation |
Empire of Storms | Maas, S, | August 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Foer, J. | September 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Fade | McMann, L. | November 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Fallout | Hopkins, E. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Felix Ever After | Callender, K. | November 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, A Life Reclaimed, A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings | Knight, M. | January 2024 | Low circulation |
Flamer | Curato, M. | April 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Forever | Blume, J. | September 2023 | Low circulation |
Fun Home | Bechdel, A. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Furyborn | Legrand, C. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Gabi, A Girl in Pieces | Quintero, I. | November 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
George | Gino, A. | October 2023 | Low circulation |
Glass | Hopkins, E. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Go Ask Alice | Anonymous | September 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Grit | French, G. | November 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Grown | Jackson, T. | October 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Heroine | McGinnis, M. | November 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
I Am Margaret Moore | Capin, H. | November 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter | Sanchez, E. | October 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Identical | Hopkins, E. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
I’ll Give You the Sun | Nelson, J. | September 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Impulse | Hopkins, E. | February 2024 | Selection criteria 1, 4 |
I Never | Hopper, L. | March 2023 | Low circulation |
It | King, S. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
It Ends With Us | Hoover, C. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
It Starts With Us | Hoover, C. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Juliet Takes a Breath | Rivera, G. | February 2024 | Selection criteria 1, 4 |
Kingdom of Ash | Maas, S. | September 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Kingsbane | Legrand, C. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Last Night at the Telegraph Club | Lo, M. | March 2023 | Low circulation |
Lawn Boy | Evison, J. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Lightbringer | Legrand, C. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Like a Love Story | Nazemian, A. | September 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Living Dead Girl | Scott, E. | September 2023 | Low circulation |
Looking for Alaska | Green, J. | September 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Lucky | Sebold, A. | November 2023 | Low circulation |
Man O’ War | McCarthy, C. | November 2023 | Low circulation |
Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl | Andrews, J. | November 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Milk and Honey | Kaur, R. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Monday’s Not Coming | Jackson, T. | October 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
More Happy Than Not | Silvera, D. | October 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
My Friend Dahmer | Backderf, D. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe | Norton, P. | January 2024 | Selection criteria 1, 4 |
Nineteen Minutes | Picoult, J. | September 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
November 9 | Hoover, C. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Nowhere Girls | Reed, A. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous | Vuong, O. | March 2023 | Low circulation |
Oryx & Crake | Atwood, M. | January 2023 | Low circulation |
People Kill People | Hopkins, E. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Perfect | Hopkins, E. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Perfect Chemistry | Elkeles, S. | February 2024 | Low Circulation |
Push | Sapphire | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Red at the Bone | Woodson, J. | September 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Red Hood | Arnold, E. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Red, White & Royal Blue | McQuiston, C. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Regretting You | Hoover, C. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Reminders of Him | Hoover, C. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Rick | Gino, A. | November 2023 | Low circulation |
Rumble | Hopkins, E. | September 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Slaughterhouse Five | Vonnegut, K. | October 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
She’s Not There | Boylan, J. | January 2024 | Selection criteria 1, 4 |
Shine | Myracle, L. | January 2024 | Low Circulation |
Smoke | Hopkins, E. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Sold | McCormick, P. | November 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
The Art of Racing in the Rain | Stein, G. | October 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
The Best Laid Plans | Lund, C. | November 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
The Black Flamingo | Atta, D. | October 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
The Bluest Eye | Morrison, T. | August 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
The Carnival at Bray | Foley, J. | September 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
The Duff | Keplinger, K. | March 2023 | Low circulation |
The Female of the Species | McGinnis, M. | November 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
The Freedom Writer’s Diary | Freedom Writers | October 2023 | Low circulation |
The Handmaid’s Tale | Atwood, M. | November 2022 | Selection criteria 1 |
The Handsome Girl and the Beautiful Boy | Gottfried, B. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
The Haters | Andrews, J. | March 2023 | Low circulation |
The Immortalists | Benjamin, C. | January 2024 | Selection criteria 1, 4 |
The Infinite Moment of Us | Myracle, L. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
The Kite Runner | Hosseini, K. | August 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
The Lovely Bones | Sebold, A. | September 2023 | Low circulation |
The Midnight Lie | Rutkoski, M. | November 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
The Opposite of Innocent | Sones, S. | November 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
The Poet X | Acevedo, E. | November 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
The Pretty Committee Strikes Back | Harrison, L. | September 2023 | Low circulation |
The Truth About Alice | Mathieu, J. | October 2023 | Low circulation |
The Upside of Unrequited | Albertailli, B. | October 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
The Year of the Flood / Madd Addam series | Atwood, M. | March 2023 | Low circulation |
The You I’ve Never Known | Hopkins, E. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
This Book is Gay | Dawson, J. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
This is Kind Of An Epic Love Story | Callender, K. | January 2024 | Selection criteria 1, 4 |
Tilt | Hopkins, E. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Traffick | Hopkins, E. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Tricks | Hopkins, E. | March 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Vanilla | Merrell, B. | November 2023 | Low circulation |
Water for Elephants | Gruen, S. | September 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Wait, What? A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies and Growing Up | Corinna, H. | January 2024 | Selection criteria 1, 4 |
We Are the Ants | Hutchinson, S. | September 2023 | Selection criteria 1 |
Informal Reconsideration- Pending Review
Title | Author | Location | Status |
Beloved | Morrison, T. | High School | Pending Review |
Cut Both Ways | Mesrobian, C. | High School | Pending Review |
The Grace Year | Liggett, K. | High School | Pending Review |
This One Summer | Tamaki, M. | High School | Pending Review |
Wintergirls | Anderson, L. | High School | Pending Review |
What Made Maddy Run? The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen | Faga, K. | High School | Pending Review |
