Banned Books

Jan 24, 2004 04:01

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bejiin January 24 2004, 18:08:10 UTC
who exactly has had these books banned? Some surprising choices on what to ban....

here's what I've read:

Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
Forever by Judy Blume
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle (It's banned?)
The Witches by Roald Dahl
Blubber by Judy Blume
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Deenie by Judy Blume
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
Cujo by Stephen King
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Carrie by Stephen King
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell

And might I add that most of those were quite good too ^^:;
Just proves that only idiots ban books.

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