{"id":3046,"date":"2008-09-28T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-28T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=3046"},"modified":"2008-09-28T08:54:55","modified_gmt":"2008-09-28T12:54:55","slug":"banned-book-week-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/3046","title":{"rendered":"Banned Book Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s once again Banned Book Week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here is the list of the most challenged books of 2007<\/p>\n

1. \u201cAnd Tango Makes Three,\u201d by Justin Richardson\/Peter Parnell
\n2. \u201cThe Chocolate War,\u201d by Robert Cormier
\n3. \u201cOlive\u2019s Ocean,\u201d by Kevin Henkes
\n4. \u201cThe Golden Compass,\u201d by Philip Pullman
\n5. \u201cThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,\u201d by Mark Twain
\n6. \u201cThe Color Purple,\u201d by Alice Walker
\n7. \u201cTTYL,\u201d by Lauren Myracle
\n8. \u201cI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,\u201d by Maya Angelou
\n9. \u201cIt\u2019s Perfectly Normal,\u201d by Robie Harris
\n10. \u201cThe Perks of Being A Wallflower,\u201d by Stephen Chbosky <\/p>\n

Here are the top 100 challenged books 2000 to 2007. (Books I’ve read are bold)<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Top 100 Banned\/Challenged Books in 2000-2007
\n1 Harry Potter<\/em> J.K. Rowling<\/strong>
\n2 Alice<\/em> series Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
\n3 The Chocolate War<\/em> Robert Cormier
\n4 Of Mice and Men<\/em> John Steinbeck
\n5 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings<\/em> Maya Angelou<\/strong>
\n6 Scary Stories<\/em> Alvin Schwartz
\n7 Fallen Angels <\/em>Walter Dean Myers
\n8 It\u2019s Perfectly Normal <\/em>Robie Harris
\n9 And Tango Makes Three <\/em>Justin Richardson\/Peter Parnell
\n10 Captain Underpants <\/em>Dav Pilkey
\n11 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn <\/em>Mark Twain<\/strong>
\n12 The Bluest Eye <\/em>Toni Morrison
\n13 Forever <\/em>Judy Blume<\/strong>
\n14 The Color Purple <\/em>Alice Walker<\/strong>
\n15 The Perks of Being A Wallflower <\/em>Stephen Chbosky
\n16 Killing Mr. Griffin <\/em>Lois Duncan
\n17 Go Ask Alice <\/em>Anonymous
\n18 King and King <\/em>Linda de Haan
\n19 Catcher in the Rye <\/em>J.D. Salinger<\/strong>
\n20 Bridge to Terabithia <\/em>Katherine Paterson (I can’t remember if I read this or not)
\n21 The Giver <\/em>Lois Lowry (I can’t remember if I read this, either)
\n22 We All Fall Down <\/em>Robert Cormier
\n23 To Kill A Mockingbird <\/em>Harper Lee`
\n24 Beloved <\/em>Toni Morrison
\n25 The Face on the Milk Carton <\/em>Caroline Cooney
\n26 Snow Falling on Cedars <\/em>David Guterson
\n27 My Brother Sam Is Dead<\/em> James Lincoln Collier
\n28 In the Night Kitchen <\/em>Maurice Sendak
\n29 His Dark Materials <\/em>series Philip Pullman<\/strong>
\n30 Gossip Girl <\/em>series Cecily von Ziegesar
\n31 What My Mother Doesn\u2019t Know <\/em>Sonya Sones
\n32 Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging <\/em>Louise Rennison
\n33 It\u2019s So Amazing <\/em>Robie Harris
\n34 Arming America <\/em>Michael Bellasiles
\n35 Kaffir Boy <\/em>Mark Mathabane
\n36 Blubber <\/em>Judy Blume<\/strong>
\n37 Brave New World <\/em>Aldous Huxley<\/strong>
\n38 Athletic Shorts <\/em>Chris Crutcher
\n39 Bless Me, Ultima <\/em>Rudolfo Anaya
\n40 Life is Funny <\/em>E.R. Frank
\n41 Daughters of Eve <\/em>Lois Duncan
\n42 Crazy Lady <\/em>Jane Leslie Conly
\n43 The Great Gilly Hopkins <\/em>Katherine Paterson
\n44 You Hear Me <\/em>Betsy Franco
\n45 Slaughterhouse Five <\/em>Kurt Vonnegut<\/strong>
\n46 Whale Talk <\/em>Chris Crutcher
\n47 The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby <\/em>Dav Pilkey
\n48 The Facts Speak for Themselves <\/em>Brock Cole
\n49 The Terrorist <\/em>Caroline Cooney
\n50 Mick Harte Was Here <\/em>Barbara Park
\n51 Summer of My German Soldier <\/em>Bette Green
\n52 The Upstairs Room <\/em>Johanna Reiss
\n53 When Dad Killed Mom <\/em>Julius Lester
\n54 Blood and Chocolate <\/em>Annette Curtis Klause (This sounds familar)
\n55 The Fighting Ground <\/em>Avi
\n56 The Things They Carried <\/em>Tim O’Brien
\n57 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry <\/em>Mildred Taylor
\n58 Fat Kid Rules the World <\/em>K.L. Going
\n59 The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things <\/em>Carolyn Mackler
\n60 A Time To Kill <\/em>John Grisham<\/strong>
\n61 Rainbow Boys <\/em>Alex Sanchez
\n62 Olive\u2019s Ocean <\/em>Kevin Henkes
\n63 One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest <\/em>Ken Kesey
\n64 A Day No Pigs Would Die <\/em>Robert Newton Peck
\n65 Speak <\/em>Laurie Halse Anderson
\n66 Always Running <\/em>Luis Rodriguez
\n67 Black Boy <\/em>Richard Wright<\/strong>
\n68 Julie of the Wolves <\/em>Jean Craighead George
\n69 Deal With It! <\/em>Esther Drill
\n70 Detour for Emmy <\/em>Marilyn Reynolds
\n71 Draw Me A Star <\/em>Eric Carle
\n72 Fahrenheit 451 <\/em>Ray Bradbury
\n73 Harris and Me <\/em>Gary Paulsen
\n74 Junie B. Jones <\/em>series Barbara Park
\n75 So Far From the Bamboo Grove <\/em>Yoko Watkins
\n76 Song of Solomon <\/em>Toni Morrison
\n77 Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes <\/em>Chris Crutcher
\n78 What\u2019s Happening to My Body Book <\/em>Lynda Madaras
\n79 The Boy Who Lost His Face <\/em>Louis Sachar
\n80 The Lovely Bones <\/em>Alice Sebold (I think I own this book as well)
\n81 Anastasia Again! <\/em>Lois Lowry
\n82 Are You There God? It\u2019s Me, Margaret <\/em>Judy Blume<\/strong>
\n83 Bumps In the Night <\/em>Harry Allard
\n84 Goosebumps <\/em>series R.L. Stine
\n85 Shade\u2019s Children <\/em>Garth Nix (Why do I not own this book?!)
\n86 Cut <\/em>Patricia McCormick
\n87 Grendel <\/em>John Gardner
\n88 The House of Spirits <\/em>Isabel Allende (I’ve read its sequel though)
\n89 I Saw Esau <\/em>Iona Opte
\n90 Ironman <\/em>Chris Crutcher
\n91 The Stupids <\/em>series Harry Allard
\n92 Taming the Star Runner <\/em>S.E. Hinton
\n93 Then Again, Maybe I Won\u2019t<\/em> Judy Blume<\/strong>
\n94 Tiger Eyes <\/em>Judy Blume<\/strong>
\n95 Like Water for Chocolate <\/em>Laura Esquivel (I may actually own this book)
\n96 Nathan\u2019s Run <\/em>John Gilstrap
\n97 Pinkerton, Behave! <\/em>Steven Kellog
\n98 Freaky Friday <\/em>Mary Rodgers
\n<\/strong>99 Halloween ABC <\/em>Eve Merriam
\n100 Heather Has Two Mommies <\/em>Leslea Newman<\/p>\n

I’m down to 16\/100. Apparently my reading materials have been too dull of late.<\/p>\n

(2007<\/a>, 2005<\/a>, 2004<\/a>)
\n(who knows what I was doing in 2006) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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