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2008 Alphabetical list of Banned/Challenged Authors

A | B | C | D | F | G | H | K | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | V | W |

A

Adler, C. S.

• The Shell Lady's Daughter

Allan, Nicholas

• Where Willy Went

Alverez, Julia

• How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Angelou, Maya

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Anonymous

• Go Ask Alice

Atkins, Catherine

• Alt Ed

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B

Barnes, Derrick

• The Making of Dr. Truelove

Baron, T. A.

• The Child of the Dark Prophecy

Bechdel, Alison

• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Beiderwell, Bruce

• The Literary Experience

Bradford, Richard

• Red Sky at Morning

Burroughs, Augusten

• Running With Scissors

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C

Chobosky, Stephen

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Colfer, Eoin

• The Supernaturalist

Comfort, Alex

• The New Joy of Sex

Conroy, Pat

• Beach Music
• The Prince of Tides

Cormier, Robert

• The Chocolate War

Crutcher, Chris

• Whale Talk

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D

de Haan, Linda

• King & King

Dessen, Sarah

• Just Listen

Doig, Ivan

• Dancing at the Rascal Fair

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F

Frank, E. R.

• America

Freedom Writers

• The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them

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G

Giles. Gail

• Shattering Glass

Going, K. L.

• Fat Kid Rules the World

Gordon, Sharon

• Cuba

Green, John

• Looking for Alaska

Grove, Vicki

• The Starplace

Gutersom, David

• Snow Falling on Cedars

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H

Harris, Robie H.

• It's Perfectly Normal: A Book About Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health

Henkes, Kevin

• Olive's Ocean

Hosseini, Khaled

• The Kite Runner

Howe, James

• Totally Joe

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K

Kingsolver, Barbara

• Animal Dreams

Koertge, Ronald

• The Brimstone Journals

Korman, Gordon

• Jake Reinvented

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L

Lee, Harper

• To Kill a Mockingbird

Lowry, Lois

• The Giver

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M

Mackler, Carolyn

• Vegan Virgin Valentine

Mathabane, Mark

• Kaffir Boy

McCarthy, Cormac

• Child of God

McNally, John, ed.

• When I was a Loser: True Stories of (Barely) Surviving High School by Today's Top Writers

Mercado, Nancy E. ed.

• Tripping Over the Lunch Lady and Other Short Stories

Morrison, Toni

• Beloved
• Bluest Eye

Myers, Walter Dean

• Fallen Angels

Myracle, Lauren

• TTYL

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N

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds

• Alice on Her Way

Newman, Felice

• The Whole Lesbian Sex Book

Nijland, Stern

• King & King

Nixon, Joan Lowery

• Whispers From the Dead

Norton, Jim

• Happy Endings: The Tales of a Meaty-Brested Zilch

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O

Oates, Joyce Carol

• Sexy

Opie, Iona Archibald and Peter Opie

• I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book

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P

Parnell, Peter

• And Tango Makes Three

Patterson, James

• Cradle and All

Picoult, Jodi

• The Tenth Circle

Pullman, Philip

• The Golden Compass

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R

Richardson, Justin

• And Tango Makes Three

Rowling, J. K.

• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

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S

Sanchez, Alex

• Rainbow Boys

Schniedewind, Nancy

• Open Minds to Equality: A Sourcebook of Learning Activities to Affirm Diversity and Promote Equality

Schreier, Alta

• Vamos a Cuba [A Visit to Cuba]

Sebold, Alice

• The Lovely Bones

Silverstein, Charles

• The Joy of Gay Sex

Sittenfeld, Curtis

• Prep: A Novel

Smith, Lee

• Fair and Tender Ladies

Sones, Sonya

• What My Mother Doesn't Know

Steer, Dugald

• Wizardology: The Book of the Secrets of Merlin

Steinbeck, John

• Of Mice and Men

Strasser, Todd

• Give a Boy a Gun

Stroud, Jonathan

• The Amulet of Samarkand
• The Golem's Eye
• Ptolemy's Gate

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T

Taylor, Mildred D.

• The Land

Thompson, Craig

• Blankets

Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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V

Vonnegut, Kurt

• Slaughterhouse-Five

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W

Walker, Alice

• The Color Purple

Welch, James

• Fools Crow

West, Stanley Gordon

• Finding Laura Buggs
• Until They Bring the Streetcars Back

White, Edmund

• The Joy of Gay Sex

Wheeler, Jeffrey M.

• The Literary Experience

Wittlinger, Ellen

• Sandpiper

Wright, Richard

• Black Boy

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Material for this page was obtained from the American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom and Books Challenged or Banned in 2007-2008 by Robert P. Doyle.

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Site modified September 25, 2008

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