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For as long as there have been books, there have been individuals trying to prohibit access to certain books. Banned Book Week is a time to celebrate literature. So pick up a book -- any book -- and enjoy!
The American Library Association compiles a list every year representing the most frequently challenged books from the previous year. A "challenged book" has, for whatever reason, been considered by one of more people to be inappropriate, and its removal from library shelves has been requested. On the other hand, a "banned book" is a challenged book that has actually been removed from the shelves.
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For offensive language and encouraging bad behaviour
Dav Pilkey
When George and Harold hypnotize their principal into thinking that he is the superhero Captain Underpants, he leads them to the lair of the nefarious Dr. Diaper, where they must defeat his evil robot henchmen.
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For inaccuracy and political viewpoint
Michael A. Bellesiles
How and when did Americans develop their obsession with guns? Is gun-related violence so deeply embedded in American historical experience as to be immutable? The accepted answers are "mythology," says Michael A. Bellesiles.
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For sexual content, offensive language, religious viewpoint, and violence
Robert Cormier
Stunned by his mother's recent death and appalled by the way his father sleepwalks through life, Jerry Renault, a New England high school student, ponders the poster in his locker-Do I dare disturb the universe?
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For racism, offensive language and violence
Walter Dean Myers
Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.
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For homosexuality, sexual content and offensive language
Stephen Chbosky
This is the story of what it's like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. We may not know where he lives. We may not know to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares.
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For sexual content and offensive language
Sonya Sones
This book is about me. It tells the heart-stoppingly riveting story of my first love. And also of my second. And, okay, my third love too. It's not that I'm boy crazy. It's just that even though I'm almost fifteen it's like my mind and my body and my heart just don't seem to be able to agree on anything.
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For nudity and offensive language
Maurice Sendak
The story of Mickey's nighttime adventure in the baker's kitchen is "a highly original dream fantasy (with) deliciously playful illustrations (and a) chantable, easily remembered text. Pure delight for young children."--Booklist.
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For homosexuality
Linda de Haan & Stern Nijland
You are cordially invited to join the merriest, most unexpected wedding of the year. King & King is a contemporary tale about finding true love and living happily ever after, sure to woo readers of any age.
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For racism, homosexuality, sexual content, offensive language and unsuited to age group
Maya Angelou
An unforgettable memoir of growing up black in the 1930s and 1940s in a tiny Arkansas town where Angelou's grandmother's store was the heart of the community and white people seemed as strange as aliens from another planet.
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For racism, offensive language and violence
John Steinbeck
The tragic story of the complex bond between two migrant laborers in Central California. George Milton and Lennie Small are itinerant ranch hands who dream of one day owning a small farm. George acts as a father figure to Lennie, who is a very large, simpleminded man, calming him and helping to rein in his immense physical strength.
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