Banned and Challenged Chapter Books
Annotation:Banned in South Africa from 1985-1991.
Annotation:Challenged in Cromwell (CT) middle school curriculum on concern that it promotes witchcraft and violence.
Annotation:Challenged in the Stafford County, Virginia middle schools in 2002 because a parent was offended by some language. The book is a 1996 Newbery Honor winner and the same year was named a Coretta Scott King Honor Book.
Annotation:2009: Use of this Newbery Award-winning book was restricted at Brookline Elementary (TX) because of complaints of violence.
Annotation:Banned for sexually explicit and offensive language. ("Damn", and a first kiss.)
Annotation:Challenged because it depicts "graphic violence, mysticism and gore". Howard County, Maryland 1990. Also challenged because of "occult content".
Annotation:A Middletown (NJ) parent tried to have the book banned from a local library in 1988 for vulgarity and violence. This attempt failed; however, the book was removed from the Livelle Elementary School library in La Paz, Indiana, in 1991, after a library patron complained the book used the word “bastard.”
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Books for upper elementary students that have been challenged or banned.
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