BANNED BOOKS WEEK 2008

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The Most Challenged Books
Most Frequently Challenged Authors

The Most Challenged Books

• HA477
  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  Twain, Mark. Bantam Books c1981. Bantam classic ed. Grade 9 and up.

• JB937
  The Chocolate War
  Cormier, Robert. Dell Laurel-Leaf 2000, c1974. Grades 6-12.

• JB911
  The Color Purple
  Walker, Alice. Harcourt c1982.

• JC058
  The Golden Compass
  Pullman, Philip. Yearling Book c1995. Grades 7-12.

• GS445
  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
  Angelou, Maya. Bantam Books 1993, c1969.

• JG412
  It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex & Sexual Health
  Emberley, Michael. Candlewick Press 2004. Grades 4 and up.

• HF973
  Olive's Ocean
  Henkes, Kevin. Greenwillow Books c2003. 1st ed. Grades 4-7.

• HC066
  The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  Chbosky, Stephen. Pocket Books c1999. Grades 9-12.
  

Most Frequently Challenged Authors

• GW036
  After the First Death
  Cormier, Robert. Dell Laurel-Leaf 1991, c1979. Grade 7 and up. RL: 6.2.

• JA108
  Anastasia at This Address
  Lowry, Lois. Yearling 1992, c1991. Grades 3-6. RL: 6.5.

• HM338
  Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories
  Crutcher, Chris. HarperTempest 2002, c1991. 1st HarperTempest ed. Grades 8-12.

• JC179
  Beloved: A Novel
  Morrison, Toni. Vintage International/Vintage Books c2004. 1st Vintage
  International ed.

• MM018
  The Bluest Eye
  Morrison, Toni. Plume 1994, c1970.

• JC854
  The Broken Bridge
  Pullman, Philip. Dell Laurel-Leaf 2001, c1992. 1st Dell Laurel-Leaf ed. Grades
  6-8.

• MN488
  Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays, 1852 - 1890
  Twain, Mark. The Library of America c1992.

• HS092
  The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain
  Twain, Mark. Bantam Books 2005, c1957. Bantam classic reissue ed.

• HM446
  The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings: The Best From Which
  Was the Dream? and Fables of Man
  Twain, Mark. University of California Press c1980.

• JC041
  Gathering Blue
  Lowry, Lois. Bantam Books 2005, c2000. Grades 6 and up.

• MQ271
  The Gilded Age and Later Novels
  Twain, Mark. Library of America c2002.

• MM030
  The Giver
  Lowry, Lois. Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Reader 1994, c1993. RL: 4.5.

• HY841
  A Good Day
  Henkes, Kevin. Greenwillow Books c2007. 1st ed. Pre-school - Grade 3.

• GV764
  Gooney Bird Greene
  Lowry, Lois. Houghton Mifflin c2002. Grades 1-5.

• HX431
  Gossamer
  Lowry, Lois. Houghton Mifflin c2006. Grades 5-9.

• HZ166
  Heroes: A Novel
  Cormier, Robert. Dell Laurel-Leaf c1998. Grades 6-12. RL: 5.7.

• MM051
  I Am the Cheese: A Novel
  Cormier, Robert. Dell Laurel - Leaf 1991, c1977. RL: 5.6.

• MM979
  Jazz
  Morrison, Toni. Plume c1992.

• HV395
  Julius, the Baby of the World
  Henkes, Kevin. Greenwillow Books c1990. 1st ed. Pre-school - Grade 3.

• HD696
  Kitten's First Full Moon
  Henkes, Kevin. Greenwillow Books c2004. 1st ed. Grades K-2.

• JC882
  Life on the Mississippi
  Twain, Mark. Penguin Books 1984, c1948.

• HP915
  Lilly's Big Day
  Henkes, Kevin. Greenwillow Books c2006. 1st ed. Grades K-3.

• GY978
  Love
  Morrison, Toni. Alfred A. Knopf c2003. 1st ed.

• HD406
  Messenger
  Lowry, Lois. Houghton Mifflin c2004. Grades 8-12.

• GW030
  Number the Stars
  Lowry, Lois. Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers [1998], c1989.
  Grades 3-7. RL: 5-2.

• HM915
  Protecting Marie
  Henkes, Kevin. Puffin Books c1995. Grades 5-9.

• HJ965
  Pudd'nhead Wilson; and, Those Extraordinary Twins Authoritative Texts, Textual
  Introduction, Tables of Variants, Criticism
  Twain, Mark. W.W. Norton c2005. 2nd ed.

• HA518
  Rabble Starkey
  Lowry, Lois. Houghton Mifflin c1987. Grades 5-7.