Banned Books Week - 10 Most Challenged Books of 2006

[lilibeth]

Get out there and read!

• "And Tango Makes Three" by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, for homosexuality, anti-family, and unsuited to age group;
  
  
• "Gossip Girls" series by Cecily Von Ziegesar for homosexuality, sexual content, drugs, unsuited to age group, and offensive language;
  
  
• "Alice" series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor for sexual content and offensive language;
  
  
• "The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things" by Carolyn Mackler for sexual content, anti-family, offensive language, and unsuited to age group;
  
  
• "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison for sexual content, offensive language, and unsuited to age group;
  
  
• "Scary Stories" series by Alvin Schwartz for occult/Satanism, unsuited to age group, violence, and insensitivity;
  
  
• "Athletic Shorts" by Chris Crutcher for homosexuality and offensive language.
  
  
• "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky for homosexuality, sexually explicit, offensive language, and unsuited to age group
  
  
• "Beloved" by Toni Morrison for offensive language, sexual content, and unsuited to age group;
  
  
• "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier for sexual content, offensive language, and violence.

Comments

[mskat.livejournal.com]

I've read all of those already, or at least one book in the ones that are series.

Gossip Girl should be thrown out of libraries not for content but because it's the books suck.

[lili-beth.livejournal.com]

I haven't read any of them in that series, but I'll take your word for it.

Still, if one of my niecphews wanted to read it, I wouldn't stop 'em.

[mskat.livejournal.com]

Nah. I wouldn't stop a kid. But I might mock them for their crap tastes.