[bksvol-discuss] Status of ALA Banned Books at Bookshare
- From: Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:20:06 -0700 (PDT)
e is excellent, g is good, f is fair, x is we don't have it yet.
x Alvarez, Julie. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.
x Ancona, George. Cuban Kids.
e Angelou, Maya. I Know Why a Caged Bird Sings.
e Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale.
x Baskin, Julia, Lindsey Newman, Sophia Politt-Cohen, and Courtney Toombs.
The Notebook Girls. Warner Bks. Challenged, but retained at the Cape May
County, NJ Library (2006). The book is comprised of the entries four New York
City high-school students made in a shared journal in the aftermath of the
September 11 terrorist attacks.
x Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic.
x Birdseye, Tom. Attack of the Mutant Underwear.
e Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451.
x Bradbury, Ray. The Veldt.
e Brown, Dan. The Da Vinci Code.
e Burroughs, Augusten. Running With Scissors.
x Chbosky, Stephen. The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
e Chevalier, Tracey. Girl With a Pearl Earring.
x Chomsky, Noam, and Edward S. Herman. Manufacturing Consent: The Political
Economy of the Mass Media.
e Chopin, Kate. The Awakening.
x Christensen, James C., Renwick St. James and Alan Dean Foster. Voyage of
the Basset. Artisan. Retained in the Davis County, Utah Library (2006). The
complainant objected to the book after her five-year-old son borrowed it from
the children's section and showed her the illustrations it contains of topless
mermaids and other partially clothes mythical creatures. The author is a
retired Brigham Young University Art professor and cochair of the Mormon Arts
Foundation.
e Cormier, Robert. The Chocolate Wars.
x Crutcher, Chris. Whale Talk.
x de Haan, Linda and Stern Nijland. King & King.
x Draper, Sharon M., and Adam Lowenbein. Romlette and Julio.
x Eleveld, Mark, ed. The Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop & the Poetry of
a New Generation.
x Fogelin, Adrian. My Brother's Hero.
x Frank, E.R. America.
e Freedom Writers. The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used
Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them.
x Gaines, Ernest J. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.
x Going, K.L. Fat Kid Rules the World.
x Gordon, Sharon. Cuba.
x Gravett, Paul. Manga: 60 Years of Japanese Comics.
x Gray, Heather M., and Samantha Phillips. Real Girl/Real World: Tools for
Finding Your True Self.
x Green, Jonathon, comp. Cassell Dictionairy of Slang.
x Hedayat, Sadegh. The Blind Owl. Grove Pr. The widely acclaimed Iranian
classic, written in the 1930's, was banned in Iran (2006). "The new government
intends to take positive steps for reviving neglected values and considering
religious teachings in the cultural field."
x Hedges, Peter. What's Eating Gilbert Grape.
x Jukes, Mavis. The Gay Book: An Owner's Manual.
x Kehret, Peg. Abduction!
x Langley, Andrew. 100 Greatest Tyrants.
g LeGuin, Ursula K. A Fisherman of the Inland Sea.
e Levitt, Steven D., and Stephen J Dubner. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist
Explores the Hidden Side of Everything.
e Lowry, Lois. The Giver.
x Mackler, Carolyn. Vegan Virgin Valentine.
e Mathabane, Mark. Kaffir Boy.
e McBain, Ed. Alice in Jeopardy.
x Mitchell, Stephen. Gilgamesh: A New English Version. Free Pr. Challenged
in the Clearview Regional High School in Harrison Township, N.J. (2006) because
the modern translation of on of the oldest known pieces of literature was
considered sexually descriptive and unnecessarily explicit. The work itself
dates back to about 1700 B.C., some one thousand years before the writings of
Homer.
x Mochizuki, Ken. Baseball Saved Us.
x Morgan, Melissa J. TTYL.
e Morrison, Toni. Beloved.
e Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye.
x Myers, Walter Dean. Fallen Angels.
x Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Reluctantly Alice.
g O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried.
x Opie, Iona Archibald, and Peter Opie, eds. I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's
Pocket Book.
g Park, Barbara. Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky Peeky Spying. Random.
Challenged in the Wake County, N.C. schools (2006). Parent are getting help
from Called2Action, a Christian group that says its mission is to "promote and
defend our shared family and social values."
x Parks, Gordon. The Learning Tree.
x Paulsen, Gary. Zero to Sixty: The Motorcycle Journey of a Lifetime.
x Peters, Lisa Westberg. Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story.
e Pollan, Michael. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the
World.
e Richardson, Justin, and Peter Parnell. <em>And Tango Makes Three.
e Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
e Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
e Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
e Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
e Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
x Ruby, Laura. Lily's Ghost.
e Sanchez, Alex. Rainbow Boys.
x Schreier, Alta. Vamos a Cuba (A Visit to Cuba). Heinemann. Removed from
all Miami-Dade County school libraries (2006) because a parent's complaint that
the book does not depict an accurate life in Cuba. The American Civil
Liberties Union [ACLU] of Florida filed a lawsuit challenging the decision to
remove this book and the twenty-three others titles in the same series from the
district school libraries. In granting a preliminary injunction in July 2006
against the removal, Judge Alan S. Gold of U.S. District Court in Miami
characterized the matter as a "First Amendment issue" and ruled in favor of the
ACLU of Florida, which argued that the books were generally factual and that
the board should add to its collection, rather than removing books it disagreed
with.
x Schwartz, Alvin. More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
e Sebold, Alice. The Lovely Bones.
e Sendak, Maurice. In The Night Kitchen.
x Shafak, Elif. The Bastard of Istanbul.
x Silverstein, Charles, and Edmund White. The Joy of Gay Sex.
x Steer, Dugald. Wizardology: The Book of the Secrets of Merlin.
e Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men.
x Thompson, Craig. Blankets.
e Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clements). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
g Vonnetgut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five.
e Watkins, Yoko Kawashima. So Far from the Bamboo Grove.
x Wood, Maryrose. Sex Kittens and Horn Dawgs Fall in Love.
g Wright, Richard. Black Boy.
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