I’m on the tail end of celebrating Banned Books Weeks by reading all those banned books! So now I encourage you to read them as well. Here is a full press release about the top banned books in 2006. Please go buy them.
The Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2006
The following books were the most frequently challenged in 2006:
The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom received a total of 546 challenges last year. A challenge is defined as a formal, written complaint, filed with a library or school requesting that materials be removed because of content or appropriateness. According to Judith F. Krug, director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom, the number of challenges reflects only incidents reported, and for each reported, four or five remain unreported.
The “10 Most Challenged Books of 2006” reflect a range of themes, and consist of the following titles:
“And Tango Makes Three” by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
“Gossip Girls” series by Cecily Von Ziegesar \
“Alice” series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
“The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things” by Carolyn Mackler
“The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison
“Scary Stories” series by Alvin Schwartz
“Athletic Shorts” by Chris Crutcher
“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky
“Beloved” by Toni Morrison
“The Chocolate War” by Robert Cormier
Off the list this year, but on for several years past, are the “Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger, “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain.
And I will tell you that one of my favorite books of all time is “Boy’s Life” by Robert McCammon and that book has been on several banned lists. Ridiculous. Here’s a letter McCammon read to a school board about his book.
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