Banned+Books

//Due November 30//

 * 1) Pick a banned book off of this list. Y  ou can reread a book you have already read.
 * 2) Go online or check our library (we have a compliled book at the reference desk) and find out what a banned or challenged book is.
 * 3) Read your book! As you read take notes (with page numbers) of passages, words, situations, etc., that probably caused this book to be banned
 * 4) When finished, write a short paper explaining why this book has been banned. Support with the notes you have gathered. Use page numbers of citations in the paper. Please cite any references you may have gathered from the Internet.
 * Below is a list of frequently banned or challenged books compiled by the American Library Association.**
 * 1) //Scary Stories// (Series), by Alvin Schwartz
 * 2) //The Kite Runner//, by Khaled Hosseini
 * 3) //I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings//, by Maya Angelou
 * 4) //The Chocolate War//, by Robert Cormier
 * 5) //The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn//, by Mark Twain
 * 6) //Of Mice and Men//, by John Steinbeck
 * 7) //Forever//, by Judy Blume
 * 8) //The Golden Compass//, by Philip Pullman
 * 9) //The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things//, by Carolyn Mackler
 * 10) //Bridge to Terabithia//, by Katherine Paterson
 * 11) //The Catcher in the Rye//, by J.D. Salinger
 * 12) //The Giver//, by Lois Lowry
 * 13) //My Brother Sam is Dead//, by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
 * 14) //Alice// (Series), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
 * 15) //Goosebumps// (Series), by R.L. Stine
 * 16) //A Day No Pigs Would Die//, by Robert Newton Peck
 * 17) //The Color Purple//, by Alice Walker
 * 18) //The Great Gilly Hopkins,// by Katherine Paterson
 * 19) //In the Night Kitchen//, by Maurice Sendak
 * 20) //The Witches//, by Roald Dahl
 * 21) //A Wrinkle in Time//, by Madeleine L’Engle
 * 22) //Go Ask Alice//, by Anonymous
 * 23) //The Stupids// (Series), by Harry Allard
 * 24) //Anastasia Krupnik// (Series), by Lois Lowry
 * 25) //Blubber//, by Judy Blume
 * 26) //Halloween ABC//, by Eve Merriam
 * 27) //Kaffir Boy//, by Mark Mathabane
 * 28) //The Bluest Eye//, by Toni Morrison
 * 29) //The Handmaid’s Tale//, by Margaret Atwood
 * 30) //The Outsiders//, by S.E. Hinton
 * 31) //The Pigman//, by Paul Zindel
 * 32) //To Kill a Mockingbird//, by Harper Lee
 * 33) //We All Fall Down//, by Robert Cormier
 * 34) //Deenie//, by Judy Blume
 * 35) //Flowers for Algernon//, by Daniel Keyes
 * 36) //Beloved//, by Toni Morrison
 * 37) //The Boy Who Lost His Face//, by Louis Sachar
 * 38) //Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat//, by Alvin Schwartz
 * 39) //Harry Potter// (Series), by J.K. Rowling
 * 40) //Cujo//, by Stephen King
 * 41) //James and the Giant Peach//, by Roald Dahl
 * 42) //A Light in the Attic//, by Shel Silverstein
 * 43) //Ordinary People//, by Judith Guest
 * 44) //Brave New World//, by Aldous Huxley
 * 45) //Bumps in the Night//, by Harry Allard
 * 46) //Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret//, by Judy Blume
 * 47) //Crazy Lady//, by Jane Conly
 * 48) //Athletic Shorts//, by Chris Crutcher
 * 49) //Killing Mr. Griffin//, by Lois Duncan
 * 50) //Fade//, by Robert Cormier
 * 51) //Slaughterhouse-Five//, by Kurt Vonnegut
 * 52) //Lord of the Flies//, by William Golding
 * 53) //Native Son// by Richard Wright
 * 54) //Curses, Hexes and Spells//, by Daniel Cohen
 * 55) //The Face on the Milk Carton//, by Caroline Cooney
 * 56) //Carrie//, by Stephen King
 * 57) //The Dead Zone//, by Stephen King
 * 58) //The Adventures of Tom Sawyer//, by Mark Twain
 * 59) //Song of Solomon//, by Toni Morrison
 * 60) //Always Running//, by Luis Rodriguez
 * 61) //Summer of My German Soldier//, by Bette Greene
 * 62) //Tiger Eyes//, by Judy Blume
 * 63) //Running Loose//, by Chris Crutcher
 * 64) //Christine//, by Stephen King
 * 65) //That Was Then, This is Now//, by S.E. Hinton
 * 66) //The Wish Giver//, by Bill Brittain
 * 67) //Jump Ship to Freedom//, by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier