Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher

Moby navigates water and religion and abortion and all kinds of difficult topics that are way worse than the language for which it was challenged.

Banned

2011 - Wisconsin - A parent at the Belleville High School complained the book on the ninth grade required reading list was "pornography" and had "pervasively vulgar" language, but the school board decided to keep the book.

Sources

ALA. "Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009." Retrieved on 17 Aug 01 from http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/top-100-bannedchallenged-books-2000-2009

Crutcher, Chris. Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes. Greenwillow Books. New York, 1993.

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

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