[bksvol-discuss] Re: Status of 100 most banned or challenged books 1990-2000

  • From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 15:13:01 -0700 (PDT)

My goodness!! Why on earth would Where's Waldo be
banned! Anyone have an ideas?

Cindy

--- Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> And while we're at it, let's show how many books in
> this list are in the Bookshare collection.  Once
> again, this list is from the ALA
> (http://www.ala.org).  Out of the 100 books listed
> here, Bookshare has 46 in excellent condition, 14 in
> good condition, none in fair condition, and the
> remaining 40 are not in the collection.  So we have
> 60% of this list!  I'd love for all of them to be in
> the collection! (Well, some will never be in, like
> Where's Waldo, which has no text to speak of.)
> 
> Thanks to Maithe for posting the original list,
> Carrie
> 
>   e 1. Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin  Schwartz
> e 2. Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
> e 3. I Know Why  the Caged Bird Sings by Maya
> Angelou
> e 4. The Chocolate War by Robert  Cormier
> e 5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark 
> Twain
> e 6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
> e 7. Harry Potter  (Series) by J.K. Rowling
> e 8. Forever by Judy Blume
> g 9. Bridge to  Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
> e 10. Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds  Naylor
> e 11. Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
> g 12. My  Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln
> Collier and Christopher  Collier
> e 13. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
> e 14. The  Giver by Lois Lowry
> x 15. It's Perfectly Normal by Robie  Harris
> e 16. Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
> x 17. A Day No Pigs  Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
> e 18. The Color Purple by Alice  Walker
> x 19. Sex by Madonna
> x 20. Earth's Children (Series) by Jean  M. Auel
> e 21. The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
> g 22. A  Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
> e 23. Go Ask Alice by  Anonymous
> x 24. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
> e 25. In the  Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
> e 26. The Stupids (Series) by Harry  Allard
> x 27. The Witches by Roald Dahl
> x 28. The New Joy of Gay Sex  by Charles Silverstein
> x 29. Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois  Lowry
> x 30. The Goats by Brock Cole
> e 31. Kaffir Boy by Mark  Mathabane
> e 32. Blubber by Judy Blume
> e 33. Killing Mr. Griffin by  Lois Duncan
> x 34. Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
> x 35. We All Fall  Down by Robert Cormier
> x 36. Final Exit by Derek Humphry
> e 37. The  Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
> e 38. Julie of the Wolves by Jean  Craighead George
> e 39. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
> x 40. What's  Happening to my Body? Book for Girls:
> A Growing-Up Guide for Parents &  Daughters by Lynda
> Madaras
> e 41. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper  Lee
> e 42. Beloved by Toni Morrison
> e 43. The Outsiders by S.E.  Hinton
> e 44. The Pigman by Paul Zindel
> x 45. Bumps in the Night by  Harry Allard
> x 46. Deenie by Judy Blume
> g 47. Flowers for Algernon  by Daniel Keyes
> g 48. Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
> x 49. The Boy  Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
> x 50. Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your  Hat by Alvin
> Schwartz
>  e 51. A Light in the Attic by Shel  Silverstein
> g 52. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
> e 53. Sleeping  Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure
> (Anne Rice)
> x 54. Asking About Sex and  Growing Up by Joanna
> Cole
> e 55. Cujo by Stephen King
> e 56. James and  the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
> x 57. The Anarchist Cookbook by William  Powell
> x 58. Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
> g 59. Ordinary People  by Judith Guest
> e 60. American Psycho by Bret Easton  Ellis
> x 61. What's Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A
> Growing-Up Guide  for Parents & Sons by Lynda
> Madaras
> e 62. Are You There, God? It's Me,  Margaret by Judy
> Blume
> e 63. Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
> x 64. Athletic  Shorts by Chris Crutcher
> x 65. Fade by Robert Cormier
> x 66. Guess  What? by Mem Fox
> x 67. The House of Spirits by Isabel  Allende
> g 68. The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline 
> Cooney
> g 69. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
> e 70. Lord of the  Flies by William Golding
> e 71. Native Son by Richard  Wright
> g 72. Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed
> Women's Fantasies by  Nancy Friday
> x 73. Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel  Cohen
> x 74. Jack by A.M. Homes
> e 75. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A.  Anaya
> e 76. Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
> g 77. Carrie by  Stephen King
> x 78. Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
> e 79. On My Honor by  Marion Dane Bauer
> x 80. Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
> x 81. Family  Secrets by Norma Klein
> x 82. Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette  Cole
> e 83. The Dead Zone by Stephen King
> e 84. The Adventures of Tom  Sawyer by Mark Twain
> g 85. Song of Solomon by Toni  Morrison
> x 86. Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
> x 87. Private Parts  by Howard Stern
> x 88. Where's Waldo? by Martin Hanford
> e 89. Summer  of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
> e 90. Little Black Sambo by Helen  Bannerman
> e 91. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
> x 92. Running  Loose by Chris Crutcher
> x 93. Sex Education by Jenny Davis
> x 94. The  Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
> x 95. Girls and Sex by Wardell  Pomeroy
> g 96. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
> e 97. View  from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis
> Roberts
> g 98. The Headless Cupid by  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
> x 99. The Terrorist by Caroline  Cooney
> x 100. Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier
> and  Christopher Collier
>   
>  
> 
>        
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