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Chapel Hill- Carrboro
City Schools

 

This lists of books show locations in Chapel Hill- Carrboro City Schools.  These books have sexually inappropriate or confusing gender concepts or content. Some have self harm, suicide, violence, and/or racism. No data base is available to determine whether classrooms may or may not contain these books. Therefore, we encourage citizens to inquire of teachers and administrators if they are not present or being used for instruction of any kind.

 

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A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah Maas

Carrboro High School
East Chapel Hill High

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah Mass
East Chapel Hill High

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah Maas

Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High

A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah Maas

Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High

All Boys Aren't Blue by George M Johnson

Chapel Hill High
Phoenix Academy – Virtual

All the Things We do in the Dark by Saundra Mitchell
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High

Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson
Carrboro High
East Chapel High
Culbreth Middle

Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher

Chapel Hill High
UNC Hospital School

Ash by Malinda Lo

East Chapel Hill
Culbreth Middle

Ask the Passengers by A S King

Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High

Assassination classroom. 1, Time for assassination, story and art by Yusei Matsui

East Chapel Hill High

Assassination Classroom. 2. Time for Grownupsstory and art by Yusei Matsui

East Chapel Hill High

Assassination Classroom. 3. Time for A Transfer Student by Yusei Matsui

East Chapel Hill High

Assassination Classroom.4. Time to Face the Unbelievable by Yusei Matsui

East Chapel Hill High

Assassination Classroom.5.Time to Show off a Hidden Talent by Yusei Matsui

East Chapel Hill High

Assassination Classroom.6. Swim Time by Yusei Matsui

East Chapel Hill High

Assassination Classroom.7.On Island Time by Yusei Matsui

East Chapel Hill High

Assassination Classroom.8.Time for Opportunity by Yusei Matsui

East Chapel Hill High

Assassination Classroom.9.Shocking Time by Yusei Matsui

East Chapel Hill High

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High

Blankets by Craig Thompson
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill

Blue is the Warmest Color by Jul Morag

Chapel Hill High

Boy Toy by Barry Lyga

Carrboro High School

Bumped by Megan McCafferty
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High

Burned by Ellen Hopkins
Carrboro High

Clockwork Princess: The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare

Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High (includes 1 audio)
Guy B. Phillips Middle
Smith Middle

Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High
Phoenix Academy – Virtual
McDougle Middle
Guy B. Phillips Middle

Crank by Ellen Hopkins
Carrboro High
East Chapel Hill High

Damsel by Elana Arnold
Chapel Hill High

Darius the Great Deserves Better by Adib Khorram
East Chapel Hill High
Phoenix Academy- Virtual
Guy B. Phillips Middle

Doing It! Lets Talk about Sex by Hannah Witton
Phoenix Academy- Virtual

Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia

Chapel Hill High

Empire of Storms by Sarah Maas
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High
Culbreth Middle
Guy B. Phillips Middle
Smith Middle

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High

Carrboro/Chapel Hill High 

Fade by Lisa McMann
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High
McDougle Middle

Fallout by Ellen Hopkins
Carrboro High

Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
Carrboro High
Phoenix Academy- Virtual
McDougle Middle
Guy B. Phillips Middle

Flamer by Mike Curato
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High

Forever by Judy Blume

Culbreth Middle

Carrboro High School

Gabi a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero
Carrboro High

Carrboro/Chapel Hill High Obscene and Gender Ideology Books

Created March 27, 2023
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High
McDougle Middle

Gender Queer by Maya Kobabe
Chapel Hill High (1 lost)
East Chapel Hill High

Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
Carrboro High
East Chapel Hill High

Glass by Ellen Hopkins
Carrboro High
East Chapel Hill High

Grown by Tiffany Jackson
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Carrboro High School
East Chapel Hill High

Heroine by Mindy McGinnis
Carrboro High

Homegoing by Y Gyasi

Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High

How Beautiful the Ordinary: 12 stories of identity by Michael Cart
East Chapel Hill High

How it All Blew Up by Arvin Armadi
Phoenix Academy - Virtual

Identical by Ellen Hopkins

Created March 27, 2023
Carrboro High

I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez
East Chapel Hill High
Phoenix Academy - Virtual
UNC Hospital School
Culbreth Middle

I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High
UNC Hospital School
Culbreth Middle
McDougle Middle
Smith Middle

Identical by Ellen Hopkins

Carrboro High School

Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
Carrboro High

Infandous by Ellen Hopkins

Chapel Hill High

It's Perfectly Normal : changing bodies, growing up, sex, and sexual health by Robie H. Harris
McDougle Middle

Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres
Carrboro High

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High
Phoenix Academy - Virtual

Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas

East Chapel Hill High

Culbreth Middle

Guy B. Phillips Middle

Smith Middle

L8r, G8r by Lauren Myracle

Carrboro High School

Chapel Hill High

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

East Chapel Hill High

Phoenix Academy - Virtual

Lets Talk About Love by Claire Kann

Carrboro High School

Chapel Hill High

Lexicon by Max Barry
Carrboro High

Life is Funny by E.R. Frank

Carrboro High

Chapel Hill High

McDougle Middle

Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High
Phoenix Academy - Virtual
 

Ideology Books

Created March 27, 2023
McDougle Middle
Smith Middle

Little & Lion : a novel by Brandy Colbert
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High

Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott

Carrboro High School

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High

Looking for Alaska: a novel by John Green
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High
UNC Hospital School
Culbreth Middle
McDougle Middle
Smith Middle

Lucky by Alice Sebold
East Chapel Hill High

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High
McDougle Middle
Guy B. Phillips Middle

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

Carrboro High School

Mondays Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
East Chapel Hill High
Phoenix Academy - Virtual

More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High
UNC Hospital School

Native Son by Richard Right
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
UNC Hospital School
Culbreth Middle
Guy B. Phillips Middle
Smith Middle

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

Carrboro High School

Chapel Hill High

None of the Above by I. W. Gregorio
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
UNC Hospital School

Normal People by Sally Rooney

Carrboro/Chapel Hill High 

Created March 27, 2023
East Chapel Hill High

Not My Problem by Ciara Smith
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Carrboro High School

Chapel Hill High

Out of Darkness by Ashley Perez
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High

Perfect by Ellen Hopkins

Carrboro High School

Chapel Hill High

East Chapel Hill High

Push by Sapphire
Chapel Hill High

Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High

Real Live Boyfriends by E. Lockhart
Carrboro High
East Chapel Hill High

Red Hood by Elana Arnold

Chapel Hill High

Red, White Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
East Chapel Hill High

Rethinking Normal : a memoir in transition by Katie Rain Hill with Ariel Schrag
East Chapel Hill High
UNC Hospital School
Guy B. Phillips Middle

Rumble by Ellen Hopkins
Chapel Hill High

Sex is a Funny Word by Cory Silverberg
Culbreth Middle

Sex Plus Loving, Learning, and Enjoying Your Body by Laci Green

Carrboro High School

Shine by Lauren Myracle

Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High
McDougle Middle

Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High
Phoenix Academy - Virtual
Guy B. Phillips Middle

Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Carrboro High School

Chapel Hill High

East Chapel Hill High
UNC Hospital School
McDougle Middle

Sold by Patrick McCormick
Carrboro High
East Chapel Hill High
Culbreth Middle
McDougle Middle
Smith Middle

Speak by Laura H Anderson (also available as graphic novel)

Carrboro High (includes 1 dvd)

Chapel Hill High

East Chapel Hill High

Phoenix Academy - Virtual

UNC Hospital School

Culbreth Middle (10 copies)

McDougle Middle

Guy B. Phillips Middle

Smith Middle (9 copies)

Spinning by Tillie Walden
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High
Culbreth Middle

Carrboro/Chapel Hill High Obscene and Gender Ideology Books

Created March 27, 2023
McDougle Middle
Guy B. Phillips Middle
Smith Middle

Splendor: the sequel to Sacred by Elana Arnold

Chapel Hill High

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Chapel Hill High
Phoenix Academy - Virtual

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

Smith Middle

The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta
Chapel Hill High
Phoenix Academy - Virtual
Smith Middle

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Carrboro High (includes 1 student guide & 1 audio)
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High (online box set of Morrison novels)

The Carnival at Bray by Jessie Ann Foley
East Chapel Hill High

The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High

The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
McDougle Middle

The Freedom Writers Diary by the Freedom Writers

Chapel Hill High
Culbreth Middle
McDougle Middle

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Carrboro High School

Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High
UNC Hospital School

The Haters by Jesse Andrews
Chapel Hill High

The Infinite Moment of Us by Lauren Myracle

Chapel Hill High

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High (1 lost and 1 dvd)
Phoenix Academy - Virtual
UNC Hospital School
Culbreth Middle
Guy B. Phillips Middle

The Kite Runner: graphic novel by Khaled Hosseini
East Chapel Hill High
Culbreth Middle

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Carrboro High

Chapel Hill High

East Chapel Hill High (includes 1 audio)

McDougle Middle

The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski
Chapel Hill High

The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed

Chapel Hill High

The Opposite of Innocent by Sonya Sones
Carrboro High

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Chapel Hill High

Carrboro High

Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High
Phoenix Academy - Virtual
UNC Hospital School
Culbreth Middle
McDougle Middle

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High

Created March 27, 2023
East Chapel Hill High
Phoenix Academy - Virtual
Culbreth Middle
McDougle Middle
Guy B. Phillips Middle
Smith Middle

The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi KaurEast Chapel Hill High

The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High

The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel High
Culbreth Middle

The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High

The You I’ve Never Known by Ellen Hopkins
Carrboro High

Thirteen Reasons Why: a novel by Jay Asher

Carrboro High

Chapel Hill High

East Chapel Hill High

Culbreth Middle

Guy B. Phillips Middle

Smith Middle

This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson

Chapel Hill High

McDougle Middle (1 lost)

This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High
McDougle Middle
Smith Middle

Tilt by Ellen Hopkins

Carrboro High School

East Chapel High

Traffick by Ellen Hopkins
Carrboro High

Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
East Chapel Hill High

Ttfn by Lauren Myracle
McDougle Middle
Smith Middle

Tower of Dawn by Sarah Maas
East Chapel Hill High
Culbreth Middle
Guy B. Phillips Middle
Smith Middle

Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High
Culbreth Middle

Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High
Culbreth Middle

Wait, What? A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies, and Growing Up by Heather Corinna and
Isabella Rotman

Smith Middle

Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen

Carrboro High School

Chapel Hill High

Where I End and you Begin by Preston Norton
Carrboro High

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
East Chapel Hill High
Smith Middle

Wicked:The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Mcguire

Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
Culbreth Middle
Guy B. Phillips Middle

Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
UNC Hospital School
McDougle Middle
Guy B. Phillips Middle
Smith Middle

Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High

Yolo by Lauren Myracle

Chapel Hill High
Culbreth Middle

You Too? by Janet Gurtler
Phoenix Academy - Virtual

GENDER IDEOLOGIES

A House for Everyone by Jo Hirst
Scroggs Elementary

A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer &; Trans Identities by Mady G and Jules Zuckerberg
East Chapel Hill High
Culbreth Middle
McDougle Middle
Guy B. Phillips Middle
Smith Middle

Be Amazing: A History of Pride by Desmond 
Northside Elementary

Being Jazz: My Life as a Transgender Teen by Jazz Jennings
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
Phoenix Academy – Virtual
Culbreth Middle
McDougle Middle

Beyond Magenta : transgender teens speak out by Susan Kuklin
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High
UNC Hospital School
Culbreth Middle
McDougle Middle
Guy B. Phillips Middle

Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope by Jodi Patterson
Northside Elementary

Scroggs Elementary

Call Me Max by Kyle Lukoff
McDougle Elementary
Morris Grove Elementary

Calvin by JR and Vanessa Ford
Northside Elementary

Drama by Raina Telgemeier
Culbreth Middle

George by Alex Gino (now called Melissa)
UNC Hospital School
Northside Elementary

Melissa by Alex Gino / Melissa's Story Formerly George by Alex Gino
UNC Hospital School
Culbreth Middle
McDougle Middle
Guy B. Phillips Middle
Smith Middle
Carrboro Elementary
Ephesus Elementary
Estes Hill Elementary
Frank Porter Graham Elementary
Glenwood Elementary
McDougle Elementary
Morris Grove Elementary
Northside Elementary
Scroggs Elementary
Seawell Elementary

I am Jazz by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings
UNC Hospital School
Carrboro Elementary
Frank Porter Graham Elementary
Glenwood Elementary
Morris Grove Elementary
Northside Elementary

It Feels Good to be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity by Theresa Thorn

Culbreth Middle
McDougle Middle
Northside Elementary
Scroggs Elementary
Seawell Elementary

Jack (Not Jackie) by Erica Silverman
Northside Elementary
Rashkis Elementary

Jacob's New Dress by Sarah Hoffman
UNC Hospital School
Northside Elementary
Scroggs Elementary

Julián at a Wedding by Jessica Love
Ephesus Elementary
Estes Hill Elementary
Northside Elementary

Julián is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
Carrboro Elementary
Ephesus Elementary
Estes Hill Elementary
Frank Porter Graham Elementary
Glenwood Elementary
Morris Grove Elementary
Northside Elementary
Rashkis Elementary
Scroggs Elementary
Seawell Elementary

Max and the Talent Show by Kyle Lukoff
Northside Elementary

Morris Mickelwhite and the Tangerine Dress by Christine Baldacchino
UNC Hospital School
Northside Elementary

My Maddy by Gayle Pittman
Northside Elementary

My Rainbow by Trinity and DeShanna Neal
Northside Elementary
Scroggs Elementary
Seawell Elementary

Rick by Alex Gino
McDougle Middle
Guy B. Phillips Middle
Carrboro Elementary
Northside Elementary
Scroggs Elementary

Sparkle Boy by Leslea Newman
Northside Elementary

The Breakaways by Cathy G. Johnson
Chapel Hill High
Culbreth Middle
Smith Middle
Carrboro Elementary
McDougle Elementary
Rashkis Elementary
Scroggs Elementary

Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff
McDougle Middle
Guy B. Phillips Middle
Ephesus Elementary
Estes Hill Elementary
McDougle Elementary
Morris Grove Elementary
Northside Elementary
Rashkis Elementary
Scroggs Elementary
Seawell Elementary

What Are Your Words by Katherine Locke
Glenwood Elementary
McDougle Elementary
Northside Elementary
Scroggs Elementary

Who Are You? The Kids’ Guide to Gender Identity by Brook Pessin-Whedbee
McDougle Middle
Carrboro Elementary

The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag
Culbreth Middle
McDougle Middle (8 copies)

Carrboro/Chapel Hill High Obscene and Gender Ideology Books

Created March 27, 2023
Guy B. Phillips Middle
Smith Middle
Carrboro Elementary
Estes Hill Elementary
Frank Porter Graham Elementary
Glenwood Elementary
McDougle Elementary
Northside Elementary
Scroggs Elementary
Seawell Elementary

Worm Loves Worm by J.J. Austrian
Carrboro Elementary
Ephesus Elementary
Northside Elementary

The following books are of concern to parents of students attending Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools. Teen Guidance is recommended. Please notice some books have been placed in elementary and middle schools and would be considered inappropriate.

Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Chapel Hill High
UNC Hospital School
Culbreth Middle (includes 1 audio)
McDougle Middle
Guy B. Phillips Middle (7 copies)
Smith Middle (5 copies)
Carrboro Elementary (14 copies)
Ephesus Elementary (10 copies)
Estes Hill Elementary
Frank Porter Graham Elementary
Glenwood Elementary
McDougle Elementary (7copies)
Morris Grove Elementary
Northside Elementary
Rashkis Elementary (includes 1 ebook)
Scroggs Elementary
Seawell Elementary

Anne Frank's Diary: A graphic Novel by Ari Folman
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
Culbreth Middle
Guy B. Phillips Middle

Angus, Thongs and Full-frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High
Culbreth Middle
McDougle Middle
Smith Middle

Boy Girl Boy by Ron Koertge
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High

Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High
UNC Hospital School
Guy B. Phillips Middle

Chosen: House of Night Novel by P.C Cast, Kristin Cast
East Chapel Hill High

Dear Martin by Nic Stone (theme is racism)
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High
Culbreth Middle
McDougle Middle
Guy B. Phillips Middle
Smith Middle

Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
Carrboro High
Phoenix Academy- Virtual
McDougle Middle
Guy B. Phillips Middle

Grit by Gillian French
Chapel Hill High

Guyaholic by Caroline Mackler

Carrboro/Chapel Hill High 

Created March 27, 2023
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High

The Assassins Blade by Sara Moss
East Chapel Hill High (1 lost)
Culbreth Middle

The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
McDougle Middle

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Carrboro High (dvd movie by Anthony Hunter )
Chapel Hill High
UNC Hospital School
Culbreth Middle
McDougle Middle

My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High
Phoenix Academy - Virtual
Culbreth Middle
McDougle Middle
Guy B. Phillips Middle
Smith Middle

Queen of Shadows by Sarah Maas
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel Hill High
Culbreth Middle
Guy B. Phillips Middle
Smith Middle

Ready or Not by Meg Cabot
Carrboro High
East Chapel Hill High
Culbreth Middle
McDougle Middle
Guy B. Phillips Middle

Story of a Girl by Sarah Zaar
Carrboro High
East Chapel Hill High

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High

Carrboro/Chapel Hill High Obscene and Gender Ideology Books

Created March 27, 2023
East Chapel Hill High
Phoenix Academy - Virtual
Culbreth Middle
McDougle Middle
Guy B. Phillips Middle
Smith Middle

The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli
Carrboro High
Chapel Hill High
East Chapel High
Culbreth Middle

Controversial Books: Inflammatory Racial and Social Commentary and Historical Commentary


Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy by Emmanuel Acho
East Chapel Hill High
McDougle Middle
Smith Middle

We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson with Tonya Bolden
Culbreth Middle
Guy B. Phillips Middle

We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices by Wade Hudson
Phoenix Academy - Virtual
Culbreth Middle
Guy B. Phillips Middle
Smith Middle
Frank Porter Graham Elementary
Glenwood Elementary
McDougle Elementary
Northside Elementary
Rashkis Elementary

Scroggs Elementary

Woke: a Young Poet's Call to Justice by Mahogany L. Browne
Phoenix Academy - Virtual
Culbreth Middle
McDougle Middle
Guy B. Phillips Middle
Northside Elementary

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