Banned Books Week 2011

Top ten most frequently challenged books of 2010

The St. Charles Public Library DOES NOT BAN these books or any others.

The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) collects reports on book challenges from librarians, teachers, concerned individuals, and press reports from across the United States. A challenge is defined as a formal, written complaint filed with a library or school requesting that a book or other material be restricted or removed because of its content or appropriateness. In 2010, OIF received 348 reports on efforts to remove or restrict materials from school curricula and library bookshelves.

The ALA’s Top Ten Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2010 include the following titles; each title is followed by the reasons given for challenging the book:

And Tango Makes Three
by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
Reasons: Homosexuality, Religious Viewpoint, Unsuited to Age Group
 

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie
Reasons: Offensive language, Racism, Sex Education, Sexually Explicit, Unsuited to Age Group, Violence
 

Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
Reasons: Insensitivity, Offensive Language, Racism, Sexually Explicit
 

Crank
by Ellen Hopkins
Reasons: Drugs, Offensive Language, Sexually Explicit
 

The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Unsuited to Age Group, Violence
 

Lush
by Natasha Friend
Reasons: Drugs, Offensive Language, Sexually Explicit, Unsuited to Age Group
 

What My Mother Doesn’t Know
by Sonya Sones
Reasons: Sexism, Sexually Explicit, Unsuited to Age Group
 

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Reasons: Drugs, Inaccurate, Offensive Language, Political Viewpoint, Religious Viewpoint
 

Revolutionary Voices
edited by Amy Sonnie
Reasons: Homosexuality, Sexually Explicit
 

Twilight
by Stephenie Meyer
Reasons: Religious Viewpoint, Violence

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