The Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2004
(taken from ALA's list of challenged books)
"The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
"Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
"Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture" by Michael A. Bellesiles
Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey
"The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky
"What My Mother Doesn't Know" by Sonya Sones
"In the Night Kitchen" by Maurice Sendak
"King & King"
"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
"Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
Off the list this year, but on the list for several years past, are the Alice series of books by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, "Go Ask Alice" by Anonymous, "It's Perfectly Normal" by Robie Harris and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain.
2 comments:
The Chocolate War is still on that list? Amazing.
Yes, and I think was the most challenged of last year. What surprises me is that none of the Harry Potter books are on the list this year.
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