1. ALA Banned Books Week Sept. 24–Oct. 1, 2011 The American Library Association (www.ala.org) celebrates Banned Book Week each Septemberwww.ala.org

2. Private Parts are Off Limits in Either Fiction or Non-Fiction

3. Captain Underpants Insensitivity Being unsuited to age group Encouraging children to disobey authority

4. Walter the Farting Dog Uses the word “fart” and “farting” 24 times

5. Harry Potter Series Wizardry and Magic Portrays Authority Figures as “stupid”

6. Witchcraft/Wizardry

7. Scary/Violent Scenes/Themes

8. References to Gay and Lesbian Families

9. Anti-Authority

10. Offensive Language

11. Careful how you choose characters

12. Censorship is not just for fiction! Too depressing!

13. Julie of the Wolves Sexual content Offensive language Violence Socialist, evolutionist, and “anti-family” themes Unsuited for age group

14. The Chocolate War The Most Challenged Book of 1998 Offensive Language Unsuited to age group

15. A Light in the Attic Too dreary Too negative

16. The Giving Tree: Sexist

17. The Lorax Being an “allegorical political commentary”

18. Top Ten Challenged Authors 1990-2004 1.Alvin Schwartz 2. Judy Blume 3. Robert Cormier 4. J.K. Rowling 5. Michael Willhoite 6. Katherine Paterson 7. Stephen King 8. Maya Angelou 9. R.L. Stine 10. John Steinbeck

19. The American Library Association (ALA) compiled the top 10 most challenged books from 2000-2005. All but three of these books also were in the top 10 of the most challenged books of the 1990s. The ALA reports there were more than 3,000 attempts to remove books from schools and public libraries between 2000 and 2005.top 10 of the most challenged books of the 1990s The 10 most challenged books of the 21st Century (2000-2005) are: 1. Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling 2. The Chocolate War, Robert Cormier 3. Alice series, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 4. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck 5. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou 6. Fallen Angels, Walter Dean Myers 7. It's Perfectly Normal, Robie Harris 8. Scary Stories series, Alvin Schwartz 9. Captain Underpants, series Dav Pilkey 10. Forever, Judy Blume Challenges are defined as formal, written complaints filed with a library or school requesting that materials be removed because of content or appropriateness..

20. Top 25 Challenged Books, 2000-2009 (14 were also on the 1990-1999 top 100 list, but 7 were not yet published) Harry Potter (series), J.K. Rowling Alice series, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor The Chocolate War, Robert Cormier And Tango Makes Three, Justin Richardson/Peter Parnell Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou Scary Stories (series), Alvin Schwartz His Dark Materials (series), Philip Pullman ttyl; ttfn; l8r g8r (series), Myracle, Lauren The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky Fallen Angels, Walter Dean Myers It’s Perfectly Normal, Robie Harris

21. Captain Underpants (series), Dav Pilkey The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison Forever, Judy Blume The Color Purple, Alice Walker Go Ask Alice, Anonymous Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger King and King, Linda de Haan To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee Gossip Girl (series), Cecily von Ziegesar The Giver, Lois Lowry In the Night Kitchen, Maurice Sendak Killing Mr. Griffen, Lois Duncan

22. Are They Just Bad Books? Newbery Winners: –The Higher Power of Lucky (2007) –The Giver (1994) –Hatchet (1988 honor book) –The Great Gilly Hopkins (1979 honor book) –Julie of the Wolves (1973) “Classics” –Huckleberry Finn –Of Mice and Men –To Kill a Mockingbird –The Catcher in the Rye

23. Challenged, Restricted, Removed, or Banned, May 2010-May2011 The Absolutely True Story of a Part Time Indian Speak The Flamingo Rising The Notebook Girls: Four Frieds, One Diary, Real Life Forever in Blue, the Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood My Mom’s Having a Baby Betrayed The Perks of Being a Wallflower The Awakening The Hunger Games Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Ann Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

24. Water for Elephants Snow Falling on Cedars The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time The Dead Man in Indian Creek Get Well Soon Snakehead Brave New World Stolen Children The Koran Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India Vegan Virgin Valentine What’s Happening to My Body? Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa Shooting Star Writer’s Voice: Selected from Borrowed Time: An AIDS memoir

25. Tweaked: A Crystal Meth Memoir Song of Solomon ttyl Twenty Boy Summer The Body of Christopher Creed The Catcher in the Rye Push Pit Bulls and Tenacious Guard Dogs We’ll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star Bone One of Those Hideous Books Where Mother Dies Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology Slaughterhouse-Five Jubilee Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poems

26. Definitions Censorship: The removal, suppression, or restricted circulation of literary, artistic, or educational materials on the grounds that they are morally or otherwise objectionable (Reichman, 1988). Selection: The right to choose certain books and reject other for use with children on the basis of literary quality and knowledge of child development and psychology. Does not insist upon removing the rejected books from the shelves for everyone else (Jalongo & Creany, 1991).

27. How are books challenged? Individuals, organizations, or institutions may challenge a book. The organization to whom the challenge has been made then reports the challenge to the Office of Intellectual Freedom, where it is added to the database on reported challenges. The OIF uses this database to create its “top” lists and to provide resources to libraries, schools, and institutions.