Friday Night Lights by H. G. Bissinger

A not-so-banned book describing a town obsessed with high school football.

Banned

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

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 

Bissinger, HG. Friday Night Lights. Da Capo Press. Boston, MA, 1990.

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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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A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

John Irving pens a book banned from within three states about a little boy with a big voice who really stinks at baseball. 

Banned

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

• 1992 - Pennsylvania - Carlisle's Boiling Springs High School pulled the book from high school literature classes after parents complained of language and content

• 2000 - West Virginia - Challenged at Kanawha County high school's reading lists for being "pornographic, offensive, and vulgar."

• 2009 - New Hampshire - Pelham school district removed the book from recommended summer reading after a parent complained about language and sexuality.

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 

Date, Terry. “Schools: Parental objections to reading lists are rare.” Eagle-Tribune. https://www.eagletribune.com/news/local_news/schools-parental-objections-to-reading-lists-are-rare/article_73289bb2-a8ab-50f3-919f-ded020ac570b.html Accessed 2022 Aug 12.

Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read. ALA. 2017.

Irving, John. A Prayer for Owen Meany. William Morrow and Company. New York, 1989.

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Our librarian goes to West and East Egg to see a bunch of rich assholes try and act like humans. Mostly they all fail.

Banned

1987 - South Carolina - Challenged at the Baptist College in Charleston for "language and sexual reference in the book."

Sources

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Scribner's Sons. New York, 1925.

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The Outsiders by SE Hinton

Librarian ST Harker joins the Greasers in their epic battle against the Socs and people who talk in movie theaters with The Outsiders Chapters 1-3.

Banned

#38 100 most frequently challenged books: 1990–1999

• 1986 - Wisconsin - Challenged at South Milwaukee schools for "drugs and alcohol abuse was common" and "virtually all the characters were from broken homes."

• 1992 - Iowa - Challenged at Boone School District for smoking, drinking, and excessive violence and obsenties.

• 2000 - West Virginia - Challenged at George Washington Middle School in Eleanor due to the focus on gangs and gang fights.

Sources

ALA. "100 most frequently challenged books: 1990–1999." Retrieved on 2019 January 7 from http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/100-most-frequently-challenged-books-1990%E2%80%931999

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

Hinton, S.E. (1967). The Outsiders. New York: Speak.

Hinton, S.E. "Biography." Retrieved 2019 January 7 from sehinton.com

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