Detour for Emmy by Marilyn Reynolds

Our October horror fest begins with the scariest thing of all: Teen pregnancy! Emmy has an okay life that gets better when she gets a boyfriend and starts planning her future. Then sex.

Banned

• #83 on Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009

• #6 on Top Ten for 2005

• 2000 - Arizona - Removed from the Dysart Unified School District libraries for portraying teenage pregnancy

• 2005 - Texas - Challenged because it "talks very vividly about sexual encounters of a fifteen-year-old." at the Action Middle School library in Granbury

Sources

ALA. "Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009." Retrieved on September 30, 2018 from http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/top-100-bannedchallenged-books-2000-2009

ALA. "Top Ten Most Challenged Books Lists." Retrieved on September 30, 2018 from

http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10  

Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read. ALA. 2014.

Reynolds, Marilyn. Detour for Emmy. Morning Glory Press. 1993.

Reynolds, Marilyn. "Bio." marilynreynolds.com. Retrieved on September 30, 2018 from http://www.marilynreynolds.com/bio.html

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