It's Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read

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The "Top Ten Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2008" reflect a range of themes, and consist of the following titles:

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

TTYL; 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

Six titles from the 2007 top ten were dropped from the list, including: The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier (challenged for sexually explicit content, offensive language and violence); Olive's Ocean, by Kevin Henkes (for sexually explicit content and offensive language); The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (for racism); The Color Purple, by Alice Walker (for homosexuality, sexually explicit content and offensive language); I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou (for sexually explicit content); and It's Perfectly Normal, by Robie Harris (for sexually explicit content).

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/banned-books.html

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[sakabatou]

1. I loved Scary Stories

It had good artwork for each story.