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The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000

"Out of 6,364 challenges reported to or recorded by the Office for Intellectual Freedom, as compiled by the Office for Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association. (See Background Information: 1990–2000 under The Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000.) The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom does not claim comprehensiveness in recording challenges. Research suggests that for each challenge reported there are as many as four or five which go unreported."
~from the ALA website

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1. Scary Stories Boxed Set
by Alvin Schwartz
  
2.
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 Daddy's Roommate
by Michael Willhoite
  
3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
  
4. The Chocolate War (Readers Circle)
by Robert Cormier
  
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
by Mark Twain
  
6. Of Mice and Men: (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck
  
7. Harry Potter Hardcover Box Set (Books 1-6)
by J. K. Rowling
  
8. Forever
by Judy Blume
  
9. Bridge to Terabithia
by Katherine Paterson
  
10. The World of Alice (Boxed Set): The Agony of Alice; Alice in Rapture, Sort Of; Reluctantly Alice; All but Alice
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
  
11. Heather Has Two Mommies: 10th Anniversary Edition (Alyson Wonderland)
by Leslea Newman
  
12. My Brother Sam Is Dead
by J Collier
  
13. The Catcher in the Rye  
14. The Giver
by Lois Lowry
  
15. It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health
by Robie H. Harris
  
16.
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 Goosebumps (Series-R.L. Stine)  
17. A Day No Pigs Would Die
by Robert Newton Peck
  
18. The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
  
19. Sex - Madonna
by Madonna
  
20.
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 Jean M. Auel's the Earth's Children: The Clan of the Cave Bear, the Valley of Horses, the Mammoth Hunters
by Jean M. Auel
  
21. The Great Gilly Hopkins
by Katherine Paterson
  
22. A Wrinkle In Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
  
23. Go Ask Alice
by Anonymous
  
24. Fallen Angels
by Walter Dean Myers
  
25.
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 In the Night Kitchen
by Maurice Sendak
  
26.
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 The Stupids (Series)
by Harry Allard
  
27. The Witches (Puffin Novels)
by Roald Dahl
  
28. The New Joy of Gay Sex
by Charles Silverstein
  
29. Anastasia Krupnik (A Bantam-Skylark Book)
by Lois Lowry
  
30. The Goats  
31. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography--The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
by Mark Mathabane
  
32. Blubber
by Judy Blume
  
33. Killing Mr. Griffin (Laurel Leaf Books)
by Lois Duncan
  
34. Halloween ABC
by Eve Merriam
  
35.
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 We All Fall Down
by Robert Cormier
  
36. Final Exit (Third Edition): The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying
by Derek Humphry
  
37. The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
by Margaret Atwood
  
38. Julie of the Wolves (rack) (Julie of the Wolves)
by Jean Craighead George
  
39. The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
  
40. What's Happening to My Body? Book for Girls: The New Growing-Up Guide for Parents and Daughters, Third Edition
by Lynda Madaras
  
41. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Pernnial Moderns Classics)
by Harper Lee
  
42. Beloved
by Toni Morrison
  
43. The Outsiders
by S. E. Hinton
  
44. The Pigman
by Paul Zindel
  
45.
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 Bumps in the Night
by Henry Allard
  
46. Deenie
by Judy Blume
  
47. Flowers for Algernon
by Daniel Keyes
  
48. Annie on My Mind
by Nancy Garden
  
49. The Boy Who Lost His Face
by Louis Sachar
  
50.
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 Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat: Superstitions and Other Beliefs
by Alvin Schwartz
  
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Created by Lady S on Mar 09, 2006.