Shade's Children by Garth Nix

Shade's Children by Garth Nix

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When all the adults have vanished and overlords have taken over, a bunch of super-powered kids have sex and save the planet. 

Banned

#95 on Top 100 Banned/Challenged books: 2000-2009

2001 - New York - Williamsville's Transit Middle School retained after the book was challenged for being "vulgar, obscene, and educationally unsuitable."

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.

Nix, Garth. Shade's Children. HarperCollins. New York, 1997.

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Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

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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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Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher

Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher

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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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So Far From the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins

So Far From the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins

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An autobiographical tale of a young Japanese girl and her family escaping Korea and surviving after World War II.

Banned

2006 - Massachusetts - Dover-Sherborn Middle school took it off the sixth grade reading list for rape, violence against women by Korean men, and distorted presentation of history. The Dover Regional School Committee voted unanimously to keep it on the list but are looking for other texts for balanced experience.

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.

Watkins, Yoko Kawashima. So Far From the Bamboo Grove. HarperTrophy. New York, 1986.

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The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss

The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss

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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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Rainbow Boys, Coming of the Creeper, Part 5

Rainbow Boys, Coming of the Creeper, Part 5

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Kyle gives Jason a lift and Nelson gets super creepy on Kyle before they go to grandma's house.

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Rainbow Boys, Meeting the Problem, Part 4

Rainbow Boys, Meeting the Problem, Part 4

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Nelson and Kyle almost fight some dudes and are starting a club while Kyle is struggling to come out to his parents.

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Rainbow Boys: Rain Coming Down, Part 3

Rainbow Boys: Rain Coming Down, Part 3

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Nelson and Kyle run into a bump in the rain and Jason gets even more confused about his relationship with Debra.

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Rainbow Boys: Coming Out, Part 2

Rainbow Boys: Coming Out, Part 2

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Jason runs from a meeting, Kyle tries to talk to Jason, and Nelson is kinda a scorned bully.

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Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez

Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez

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A brief cover of the author and the banned book leads us to Jason meeting Kyle and Nelson at a meeting.

Banned

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

• 2004 - Texas - Along with fifteen other books with gay-positive themes this book was challenged in the Montgomery County Memorial Library System by Library Patrons of Texas using language similar to language of the website Parents Against Bad Books in Schools based out of Fairfax County, Virginia.

• 2005 - Arkansas - Along with fifty other books, a challenge at the Fayetteville High School library cited this book and others were too sexually explicit and promoted homosexuality

• 2006 - New York - After receiving complaints from parents about explicit sexual content, the book was removed from Webster Central School District high school summer reading list yet reinstated a year later after officials reviewed the selection process.

Sources

ALA. "Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009." Retrieved on 17 Aug 19 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.

Sanchez, Alex. Rainbow Boys. Simon Pulse. New York, 2003.

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