Banned Book Week

Banned/Challenged Books of 2002-2003 - Title List

• A-Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers by Harld Schechter and David Everitt
• Achingly Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• Alice in Lace by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
• The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers by Michael Newton
• Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting by James Russell Kincaid
• Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
• Follow the River by James Alexander Thom
• Forever by Judy Blume
• Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
• Girl Goddess by Francesca Lia Block
• The Grooming of Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• Growing Up Chicana/o by Tiffany Ana Lopez
• Guiness Book of World Records edited by Antonia Cunningham
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Sorcer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
• Heroes by Robert Cormier
• How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alverez
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• I Was a Teenage Fairy by Francesca Lia Block
• It's Perfectly Normal: A Book About Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health by Robie H. Harris
• Knocked out by My Nunga-Nungas by Louise Rennison
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold by Francesca Lia Block and Suza Scalora
• Sari Says: The Real Dirt on Everything From Sex to School by Sari Locker
• Shogun by James Clavell
• Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis
• Tenderness by Robert Cormier
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
• A Thousand Pieces of Gold: My Discovery of China's Character in the History and Meaning of Its Proverbs by Adeline Yen Mah
• Time for Dancing by Davida Hurwin
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
• When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
• Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
• Witch Baby by Francesca Lia Block
• The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
• The World's Most Famous Ghosts by Daniel Cohen
• You Hear Me?: Poems and Writings by Teenage Boys edited by Betsy Franco

Material for this page was obtained from the American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom and 2003 Banned Books Resource Guide by Robert P. Doyle.

• On these pages, a BANNED book has been removed from a library, classroom, etc.
• A CHALLENGED book has been requested to be removed from a library, classroom, etc.