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Frequently Challenged Books of 2011

According to the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, these are the top ten most frequently challenged books of last year:

  1. ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series), by Lauren Myracle
    Reasons: offensive language; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
  2. The Color of Earth (series), by Kim Dong Hwa
    Reasons: nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
  3. The Hunger Games trilogy, by Suzanne Collins
    Reasons: anti-ethnic; anti-family; insensitivity; offensive language; occult/satanic; violence
  4. My Mom’s Having A Baby! A Kid’s Month-by-Month Guide to Pregnancy, by Dori Hillestad Butler
    Reasons: nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
  5. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
    Reasons: offensive language; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
  6. Alice (series), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
    Reasons: nudity; offensive language; religious viewpoint
  7. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
    Reasons: insensitivity; nudity; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit
  8. What My Mother Doesn’t Know, by Sonya Sones
    Reasons: nudity; offensive language; sexually explicit
  9. Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily Von Ziegesar
    Reasons: drugs; offensive language; sexually explicit
  10. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
    Reasons: offensive language; racism

Have you read any of these?

Filed under Banned Books Week banned books books reading lit intellectual freedom American Library Association ALA To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Gossip Girl Cecily Von Ziegasar What My Mother Doesn't Know Sonya Sones Brave New World Aldoux Huxley Alice McKinley series Phyllis Reynolds Naylor The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie My Mom's Having a Baby Dori Hillestad Butler The Huner Games Suzanne Collins The Color of Earth Kim Dong Hwa ttyl series Lauren Myracle

  1. kelleylou reblogged this from heyboobooks and added:
    Ahhh! Just let the people read the books! If you don’t like them, DON’T READ THEM!!!
  2. yesliketheteenagewitch answered: ttyl, The Hunger Games, and To Kill a Mockingbird.
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