Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan 30
A bunch of kids decide it would be funny to kidnap their teacher but everything goes horribly wrong, mostly because one of them is Bonkers McCrazynuts.
Banned
Contains violence, murder, drinking, drugs, lying to authority, peer pressure and smoking
#25 on Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009
1988 - California - Challenged at the Sinnott Elementary School in Milpitas for containing "needlessly foul" language and had no "redeeming qualities"
1992 - California - Removed from Bonsall Middle School eighth-grade reading list because of violence and profanity
1995 - Pennsylvania - Challenged ain the Shenandoah Valley Junior-Senior High School curriculum for violence, language, and unflattering references to God
2000 - Pennsylvania - Challenged in a Bristol Borough middle school for violence and language
2001 - South Carolina - Greenville school board voted to keep the book
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Sources:
Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read. 2014.
