Each year, the American Library Association (ALA) records hundreds of attempts by individuals and groups to have books removed from libraries shelves and from classrooms. These are those books most banned between the years 1990 and 2000.
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Seriously? Is this list for real??? This is absolutely shocking! It’s bad enough that people request most of these being banned but that the Librarys humoured the small minded (often racist – Lee, Morrison, Walker, Angelou) Nazis and took them off the shelves is worse.
I can’t even see what their complaints could be about (Rowling, Dahl…)
I’d be more than happy for my children to read most of these books.
As UK citizen I’m now off to see if there’s an equivalent list for this side of the pond!
Please do not change it, unless it is to better follow the list source.
… that I grew up in a time when my teacher read James and the Giant Peach to our class, and Flowers for Algernon, To Kill a Mockingbird, Huck Finn and ACTUALSCIENCE were taught in schoolrooms.
Where did these book-banning people grow up? The Middle Ages? Germany in the ‘30s? I’m sort of surprised that Galileo’s Daughter hasn’t made the list.
Seriously…they tried to ban Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets? Why on earth?
I’ve read several of these books and I’m fine. Two of my all time favorites, The Giver and The Outsiders, I read countless times. The Catcher in the Rye I also thought was amazing.
For those of you who are wondering about how this book is banned… There is a topless woman in a beach scene. quite silly
I read all of Judy Blume’s books (except, I think that I missed Tiger Eyes) when I was young and I turned out just fine. I think that I even read Forever when I was twelve or thirteen and it didn’t make me a slut. When you are a young girl and you read those books, they make you feel like you are not going through something crazy and weird. I still don’t understand why they always cause such a stir.
I work at a public library and I decided to create a display for Banned Books Week in Sept. 06. I used this list, some lists of historically banned books, and the recent annual lists from ALA. I put a label on each book with an description of its particular challenges or bans.
The display was a huge hit! People were shocked that books are ‘still’ banned and challenged, people learned about the situation, people talked about it, and people read the books in huge numbers. Yay!
Wow, some of these are truly surprising…
Everyone should have “Where did I come from” on their shelves as a kid- great illustrations that are kid-appropriate and yet not wishy washy.
can I just say three cheers to :
Judy Blume
Stephen King
and Toni Morrison
for raising so much cain? Excelent work you three!
The wrong book was on the list, so I corrected it. Funny, that this one was banned for murder instead of sex.
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