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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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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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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So Far From the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins

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

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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A Prayer for Owen Meany: John's Mom Got It Going On, Part 3

An overview of moving religions, John's mom at a baseball game, and a new man in the family.

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A Prayer for Owen Meany: Instrumental History, Part 2

A history of the town, religion, Owen, and John's mother and the fact that the rope weighed as much as little Owen.

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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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Rainbow Boys, Coming of the Creeper, Part 5

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

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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