Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
A young girl befriends wolves and makes her way across the tundra looking for where she belongs.
Banned
#91 Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009
1982 - Missouri - Challenged for "socialist, communist, evolutionary, and anti-family themes" in Mexico.
1989 - Colorado - Challenged as sixth grade reading because "the subject matter was better suited to older students" in Littleton school libraries
1994 - Arizona - After a Erie Elementary School teacher in Chandler chose the book for an Antarctic unit, some parents challenged the book for a passage "in which a man forcibly kisses his wife."
1995 - California - Challenged in Palmdale school libraries for description of a rape
1996
California - Challenged in Ramona's Hanson Lane Elementary School for including an attempted rape of a thirteen-year-old girl
Pennsylvania - Removed for a graphic martial rape scene from the sixth-grade curriculum of the New Brighton Area School District in Pulaski Township
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
Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read. ALA. 2014.
George, Jean Craighead. Julie of the Wolves. Harper & Row. New York, 1972.
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