Find the Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2011 in GALILEO

As a part of National Library Week, the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom has released the “Top 10 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2011” list.

Read about these books in NoveList, Novelist K-8, or Literary Reference Center:

1. ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series), by Lauren Myracle
   Reasons: Offensive language; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group

2. The Color of Earth (series), by Kim Dong Hwa
   Reasons: Nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group

3. The Hunger Games trilogy, by Suzanne Collins
   Reasons: Anti-ethnic; anti-family; insensitivity; offensive language; occult/satanic; violence

4. My Mom’s Having A Baby! A Kid’s Month-by-Month Guide to Pregnancy, by Dori Hillestad Butler
   Reasons: Nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group

5. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
   Reasons: Offensive language; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group

6. Alice (series), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
   Reasons: Nudity; offensive language; religious viewpoint

7. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
   Reasons: Insensitivity; nudity; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit

8. What My Mother Doesn’t Know, by Sonya Sones
   Reasons: Nudity; offensive language; sexually explicit

9. Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily Von Ziegesar
   Reasons: Drugs; offensive language; sexually explicit

10. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
    Reasons: Offensive language; racism

See the ALA site for more information on banned and challenged books.

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