Banned Books Week   Tags: aclu, american_library_association, banned_books  

All titles on this page, and accompanying descriptions, come courtesy of the American Library Association's Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom.

Ttyl (series) by Lauren Myracle

Reasons: offensive language; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group.

The Color of Earth (series) by Kim Dong Hwa - Kim Dong Hwa

Reasons: nudity, sex education, sexually explicit; unsuited to age group.

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Reasons: anti-ethnic; anti-family; insensivity; offensive language; occult/satanic; violence.

My Mom's Having a Baby! by Dori Hilestad Butler

Reasons: nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Reasons: offensive language; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group.

Alice (series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Reasons: offensive language; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Reasons: insensitivity; nudity; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit.

What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones

Reasons: nudity; offensive language; sexually explicit.

Gossip Girl (series) by Cecily Von Ziegesar

Reasons: drugs, offensive language; sexually explicit

To Kill a Mockinbird by Harper Lee

Reasons: offensive language; racism

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Courtesy of : ALA

Two San Antonio writers have had their books banned or challenged in Arizona. One is Curandera by poet laureate Carmen Tafolla and the second is Woman Rollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros.

If you want more details about the Virtual Read Out Loud, go to the ALA website.   

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