The following titles were some of the most frequently challenged books from 1990 to the present.

 

 

 

Bless Me, Ultima.

Anaya, Rudolfo A.

Fiction An188 1999

A young New Mexico boy comes of age.

 

 

 

 

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Angelou, Maya

B. A5846a11993

Maya Angelou’s autobiography depicting her precarious existence in racist, Depression-era Arkansas.There she is shunted between her grandmother’s house and her mother’s – where she is raped – and withdraws into total silence. She endures to share her realization in her valedictory address: "In order to lift your voice, you have to lift your head."

 

The Handmaid’s Tale

Atwood, Margaret

Fiction At96h

In the futuristic world of Gilead, a feisty heroine chronicles her rebellion against a repressive, antiwoman society.

 

 

 

 

Valley of Horses

Auel, Jean

Fiction Au31v

In the sequel to The Clan of the Cave Bear, Ayla spends three years of solitude in a cave, but she eventually meets Jondalar and nurses him back to health after her pet lion attacks him and kills his brother.

 

 

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

Blume, Judy

Fiction B625a 1991

Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.

 

 

 

Blubber

Blume, Judy

Fiction B635b

Jill goes along with the rest of the fifth-grade class in tormenting a classmate and then finds out what it’s like when she, too, becomes a target.

 

 

Tiger Eyes

Blume, Judy

Fiction B6251ti

Resettled in the "Bomb City" with her mother and brother, Davey Wexler recovers from the shock of her father’s death during a holdup of his 7-Eleven store in Atlantic City.

 

 

 

The Goats

Cole, Brock

Fiction C6744g 1992

Stripped and marooned on a small island by their fellow campers, a boy and a girl form an uneasy bond that grows into a deep friendship when they decide to run away and disappear without a trace.

 

 

My Brother Sam is Dead

Collier, James Lincoln, and Christopher Collier

Fiction C691m

Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.

  

The Chocolate War

Cormier Robert

Fiction C813c

A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school’s annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies.

 

 

Athletic Shorts

Crutcher, Chris

Fiction C889a 1992

A collection of short stories featuring characters from earlier books by Chris Crutcher.

 

 

 

Face on the Milk Carton

Cooney, Caroline B.

Fiction C783f  1994

A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.

 

 

 

 

James and the Giant Peach

Dahl, Roald

Fiction D137j 1961

A young boy escapes from two wicked aunts and embarks on a series of adventures with six giant insects he meets inside a giant peach.

 

 

 

 

Pillars of the Earth

Follett, Ken

Fiction F721pi 1990

A mystifying puzzle involving the execution of an innocent man is interwoven into this monumental masterpiece of medieval intrigue and ingenuity; romance and rivalry; architecture and archbishops.

 

 

 

Annie On My Mind

Garden, Nancy

Fiction G167a

Liza doesn't realize at first that her feelings for Annie are more than friendly. Annie has accepted her own lesbianism, but Liza has not. When Liza’s and Annie’s romantic relationship is discovered and exposed by a school teacher, Liza rebels and rejects Annie. However, later Liza accepts that she really does love Annie.

 

Julie of the Wolves

George, Jean Craighead

Fiction G2932c

While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.

 

 

Lord of the Flies

Golding, William

Fiction G51l  1954

The classic study of human nature which depicts the degeneration of a group of schoolboys marooned on a desert island.

 

 

 

Summer of My German Soldier

Greene, Bette

Fiction G8313s

Sheltering an escaped German prisoner of war is the beginning of some shattering experiences for a 12-year-old Jewish girl in Arkansas.

 

 

 

Where’s Waldo?

Hanford, Martin

973.923 J63wdal

The reader is invited to find Waldo in the detailed illustrations of several crowded Hollywood movie sets.

 

 

The Outsiders

Hinton, S.E.

Fiction H5971o 1967

The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent’s death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.

 

 

 

Final Exit: the Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying

Humphrey, Derek

179.7 H889f

 

 

 

 

Brave New World

Huxley, Aldous

Fiction H982b

The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley’s vision of the future-of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class.

  

 

Flowers for Algernon

Keyes, Daniel

Fiction K521f

A thirty-two-year-old mentally handicapped man takes part in an innovative scientific experiment to raise his intelligence.

 

 

 

Cujo

King, Stephen

Fiction K5872cu 1981

A family's two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard is transformed by rabies and the insidious guidance of demonic forces into a terrifying monster.

 

 

 

The Dead Zone

King, Stephen

Fiction K5872d

After four and a half years in a coma, Johnny Smith awakens with a knowledge of the death zone and an ability to see the future, a horrible power that he does not want and cannot escape.

 

 

 

A Wrinkle in Time

L’Engle, Madeline

Fiction L545wr1973

On a dark and stormy night, Meg and her brother Charles were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.

 

 

 

 

To Kill A Mockingbird

Lee, Harper

Fiction L512t

The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beloved

Morrison, Toni

Fiction M8345B1988

Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio, risked death in order to wrench herself from a living death. She has lost a husband and buried a child, borne the unthinkable and not gone mad. Sethe lives in a small house on the edge of town with her daughter, Denver, her mother-in-law, Baby Suggs, and a disturbing, mesmerizing intruder who calls herself Beloved.

 

The Bluest Eye

Morrison, Toni

Fiction M8345bl

Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, an African American girl in an America whose love for blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all others, prays for her eyes to turn blue, so that she will be beautiful, people will notice her, and her world will be different.

 

 

Fallen Angels 

Myers, Walter Dean

Fiction M9924f1988

Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.

 

 

 

The Catcher in the Rye

Salinger, J.D.

Fiction Sa33c

In an effort to escape the hypocrisies of life at his boarding school, sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield seeks refuge in New York City.

 

 

 

 

Bridge to Terabithia

Paterson, Katherine

Fiction P2733b

The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.

 

 

A Day No Pigs Would Die

Peck, Robert Newton

813 P3362D

To a thirteen-year-old Vermont farm boy whose father slaughters pigs for a living, maturity comes early as he learns "doing what’s got to be done," especially regarding his pet pig who cannot produce a litter.

 

 

 

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Rowling, J.K.

Fiction R797h1998

Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches.

See also

Harry Potter à l’école des sorciers (Fiction R797h:F)

 

 

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Rowling, J.K.

Fiction R797hc

When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogswart School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school.

See also

Harry Potter et la chambre des secrets (Fiction R797hc:F)

Harry Potter und die Kammer des Schreckens (Fiction R797hc:G)

 

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Rowling, J.K.

Fiction R797hp

During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents’ deaths.

See also 

Harry Potter et le prisonnier D’Azkaban (Fiction R797hp:F 2000)

Harry Potter und der Gefangene von Askaban (Fiction R797hp:G 2000)

 

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Rowling, J.K.

Fiction R797hg

Fourteen-year-old Harry Potter joins the Weasleys at the Quidditch World Cup, then enters his fourth year at Hogwarts Academy where he is mysteriously entered in an unusual contest that challenges his wizarding skills, friendships and character, amid signs that an old enemy is growing stronger.

See also

Harry Potter et la coupe de feu  (Fiction R797hg :F)

Harry Potter und der Feuerkelch  (Fiction R797hg:G)

Harry Potter y el cáliz de fuego  (Fiction R797hg:SP)

 

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Rowling, J.K.

Fiction R797ho

When the government of the magic world and authorities at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry refuse to believe in the growing threat of a freshly revived Lord Voldemort, fifteen-year-old Harry Potter finds support from his loyal friends in facing the evil wizard and other new terrors.

See also

Harry Potter et l’ordre du phénix  (Fiction R797ho :F)

Harry Potter und der Orden des Phónix (Fiction R797ho:G)

Harry Potter : y la orden del Fénix (Fiction R797ho:SP 2004)

 

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Rowling, J.K.

Fiction R797hh

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince brings us Harry Potter’s sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as Lord Voldemort becomes ever more powerful with his followers increasing day by day in this continuing battle between good and evil. Harry searches for the full and complex story of the boy who became Lord Voldemort, and thereby finds what may be his only vulnerability.

See also

Harry Potter und der Halbblutprinz (Fiction R797hh:G)

 

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Rowling, J.K.

Fiction R797hd

Burdened with the dark, dangerous, and seemingly impossible task of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes, Harry, feeling alone and uncertain about his future, struggles to find the inner strength he needs to follow the path set out before him.

 

 

 

Of Mice and Men

Stienbeck, John

Fiction St346o 1937a

Tells a story about the strange relationship of two migrant workers, who are able to realize their dreams of an easy life until one of them succumbs to his weakness for soft, helpless creatures and strangles the farmer’s wife.

 

 

 

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Twain, Mark

Fiction C59ah1997

The adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft.

 

 

 

 

 

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Twain, Mark

Fiction C59ad 1997

The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.

 

 

 

 

Slaughterhouse-Five

Vonnegut, Kurt

Fiction V89sl

A fourth-generation German-American now living in easy circumstances on Cape Cod (and smoking too much), who, as an American infantry scout hors de combat, as a prisoner of war, witnessed the fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany, "the Florence of the Elbe," a long time ago, and survived to tell the tale.

  

The Color Purple

Walker, Alice

Fiction W1521c

Two African American sisters, one a missionary in Africa and the other a child-wife living in the South, support each other through their correspondence, beginning in the 1920s.

 

 

 

Native Son

Wright, Richard

Fiction W935n 1966

Traces the fall of a young black man in 1930s Chicago as his life loses all hope of redemption after he kills a white woman.

 

 

 

 

The Pigman

Zindel, Paul

Fiction Z66P

A teenage boy and girl, high school sophomores from unhappy homes, tell of their bizarre relationship with an old man.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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