Thursday 1 October 2009

BBW: 10 Most Challenged Titles


The 10 most challenged titles were:

And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
Reasons: anti-ethnic, anti-family, homosexuality, religious viewpoint,
and unsuited to age group


His Dark Materials trilogy, by Philip Pullman
Reasons: political viewpoint, religious viewpoint, and violence



TT
YL; TTFN; L8R, G8R (series), by Lauren Myracle
Reasons: offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age
group



Scary Stories (series), by Alvin Schwartz
Reasons: occult/satanism, religious viewpoint, and violence



Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya
Reasons: occult/satanism, offensive language, religious viewpoint,
sexually explicit, and violence



The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
Reasons: drugs, homosexuality, nudity, offensive language, sexually
explicit, suicide, and unsuited to age group




Gossip Girl
(series), by Cecily von Ziegesar
Reasons: offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age
group



Uncle Bobby's Wedding
, by Sarah S. Brannen
Reasons: homosexuality and unsuited to age group




The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
Reasons: offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group




Flashcards of My Life, by Charise Mericle Harper
Reasons: sexually explicit and unsuited to age group



Click on the pictures to learn more about the books!

4 comments:

  1. When I hear that they're the most challenged, why do I suddenly really really want to read them? hehe

    I have an award for you here, Mary:

    http://notinthepink.blogspot.com/2009/09/awards-galore.html

    :)

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  2. Thank you for acknowledging banned books week!!!

    -Your (not-so-local) Librarian Friend

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  3. Yikes! "Homosexuality" is something to be banned? i thought we got over this difference thing with Martin Luther King, Jr. Haven't we all learned that a human is a human is a human no matter the things we don't have in common?

    I can't even go into detail about the rest of it. It's too painful!

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