Banned/Challenged Books of 2004-2005 – Title List
- The Adventures of Captain Underpants Series – Dav Pilkey
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
- Alice on the Outside – Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- Alice the Brave – Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- Always Running – Luis J. Rodriguez
- America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction – Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin, & David Javerbaum
- Am I Blue – Bruce Coville
- Anastasia Again! – Lois Lowry
- Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture – Michael A. Bellesiles
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress – Dai Sijie
- Bless Me Ultima – Rudolfo Anaya
- The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
- Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder – Evelyn Waugh
- Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions – Ben Mezrich
- The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger
- The Chocolate War – Robert Cormier
- Dance on My Grave: A Life and Death in Four Parts – Adian Chambers
- Daughters of Eve – Lois Duncan
- Deal With It!: A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain, and Life as a Gurl – Esther Drill
- Deenie – Judy Blume
- The Devil’s Storybook – Natalie Babbitt
- Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey – Margaret Peterson Haddix
- The Drowning of Stephen Jones – Bette Greene
- Eat Me – Linda Jaivin
- Eight Seconds – Jean Ferris
- Fallen Angels – Walter Dean Myers
- The Giver – Lois Lowry
- Good Moon Rising – Nancy Garden
- Hey, Dollface – Deborah Hautzig
- Holly’s Secret – Nancy Garden
- Horse – Juliet Clutton-Brock
- How To Make Love Like A Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale – Jenna Jameson and Neil Strauss
- I am the Cheese – Robert Cormier
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
- In the Night Kitchen – Maurice Sendak
- In the Time I Get – Chris Crutcher
- It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health by Robie H. Harris
- The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
- The Joy of Gay Sex – Charles Silverstein and Edmund White
- King and King – Linda de Haan
- Krik? Krak! – Edwidge Dandicat
- Life is Funny – E. R. Frank
- Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments, With Recipes, Romances and Home Remedies – Esquivel, Laura
- Marijuana Grower’s Guide – Mel Frank and Ed Rosenthal
- Mick Harte Was Here – Barbara Park
- My Brother has AIDS – Deborah Davis
- My Father’s Scar – Michael Cart
- My Heartbeat – Garret Freymann-Weyr
- Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
- On the Bright Side, I’m Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God: Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson – Louise Rennison
- One Fat Summer – Robert Lipsyte
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
- Peter – Kate Walker
- Pinkerton, Behave! – Steven Kellogg
- Rainbow Boys – Alex Sanchez
- A Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry
- The Sissy Duckling – Harvey Fierstein
- The Slave Dancer – Paula Fox
- Stuck Rubber Baby – Howard Cruse
- To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- Walter the Farting Dog – William Kotzwinkle and Glenn Murray
- Whale Talk – Chris Crutcher
- What I Know Now – Rodger Larson
- What My Mother Doesn’t Know – Sonya Sones
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For additional information contact
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304-696-6575
Last updated
March 25, 2011