Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher
Gathering a group of ragtag individuals is important, either to get confidence through sports or take down a conservationist construction worker with owls.
Banned
2005
Alabama - Removed for profanity from Limestone County high school libraries
Michigan - Challenged at Grand Ledge High School
South Carolina - Removed from the suggested reading list for a pilot English-literature curriculum by the superintendent of the South Carolina Board of Education
2007 - Iowa - Challenged at the Missouri Valley High School for racial slurs and profanity
Sources
Doyle, Robert P. "Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read." ALA. 2014.
"Dances and Dames" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/