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Banned Books Week 1997
September 20-28

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"There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance" Goethe

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

Books Frequently Challenged in the 1990s

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
Christine by Stephen King
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Night Chills by Dean Koontz
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Cujo by Stephen King
Grendel by John Gardner
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

websites that explore the issues involved in Banned Books

This list was prepared by the St. Charles Public Library, September 1997.

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