When a boy is bet he can't eat worms, he does despite his friends not being his friends through the pure evil that is the male ego.

Banned

1988 - New Jersey - A parent in Middletown elementary school objected to violence and vulgar language. The book was retained.

1991 - Indiana - A library user removed the book from the LaVille Elementary School library in La Paz for containing the word "bastard"

Sources

Appel, Jacob M. "Thomas Rockwell, Writer: Where Fried Worms Come From." Education Update, Inc. New York, 2003. Retrieved 2020 September 24 from http://www.educationupdate.com/archives/2003/march03/issue/car_rockwell.html

Doyle, Robert P. "Banned Books: Defending Our Freedom to Read." American Library Association. Chicago, Ill. 2017.

Rockwell, Thomas. How to Eat Fried Worms. Kindle edition. Scholastic Inc. New York, New York, 2016.

Rosen, Lisa. "Wholesome origins of ‘Fried Worms’." Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California, 2006. Retrieved 2020 Septbember 24 from https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-25-et-rockwell25-story.html

"Dances and Dames." Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/