A young girl in Holland spends two years in an upstairs room hiding from Nazis during World War II.
Banned
1993 - Indiana - Liberty Elementary School removed the item from required reading list for fourth graders after an investigation about profanity.
1996 - Maine - Challenged for profanity in Sanford as a sixth-grade assigned reading.
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.
Reiss, Johanna. The Upstairs Room. HarperTrophy. New York, 1972.
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