Banned in the U.S.A: a reference guide to book censorship in schools and public libraries

A survey of major bookbanning incidents

Kanawha County: West, by God, Virginia

Godless textbooks in Washington County, Virginia

Island trees v. Pico: a first amentment victory

conflict and compromise in Prince Georges County

Hawkins County, Tennessee: my way or the highway

Graves County: Kentucky-fried Faulkner

Panama City, Florida: darkness in the sunshine state

Blasphemy in Cheshire, Connecticut

The law on bookbanning

Background

Appropriate means and legitimate purposes

The right to receive ideas

Secularism and sex: the twin threats to America

Hazelwood: a chill wind for the 1990s

Voices of banned authors: Judy Blume, Daniel Cohen, Robert Cormier, Katherine Paterson, Jan Slepian

The most frequently banned books in the 1990s

Impressions, edited by Jack Booth et al.

Of mice and men, by John Steinbeck

The catcher in the rye, by J. D. Salinger

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

The chocolate war, by Robert Cormier

Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson

Scary stories to tell in the dark, by Alvin Schwartz

More scary stories to tell in the dark, by Alvin Schwartz

The witches, by Roald Dahl

Daddy's roommate, by Michael Willhoite

Curses, hexes, and spells, by Daniel Cohen

A wrinkle in time, by Madeleine L'Engle

How to eat fried worms, by Thomas Rockwell

Blubber, by Judy Blume

Revolting rhymes, by Roald Dahl

Halloween ABC, by Eve Merriam

A day no pigs would die, by Robert Peck

Heather has two mommies, by Leslea Newman

christine, by Stephen King

I know why the caged bird sings, by Maya Angelou

Fallen angels, by Walter Myers

The new teenage body book, by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman

Little Red Riding Hood, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

The headless cupid, by Zilpha Snyder

Night chills, by Dean Koontz

Lord of the flies, by William Golding

A separate peace, by John Knowles

Slaughterhouse-five, by Kurt Vonnegut

The color purple, by Alice Walker

James and the giant peach, by Roald Dahl

The learning tree, by Gordon Parks

The witches of worm, by Zilpha Snyder

My brother Sam is dead, by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

The grapes of wrath, by John Steinbeck

Cujo, by Stephen King

The great Gilly Hopkins, by Katherine Paterson

The figure in the shadows, by John Bellairs

On my honor, by Marion Dane Bauer

In the night kitchen, by Maurice Sendak

Grendel, by John Champlin Gardner

I have to go, by Robert Munsch

Annie on my mind, by Nancy Garden

The adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain

The pigman, by Paul Zindel

My house, by Nikki Giovanni

Then again, maybe I won't, by Judy Blume

The handmaid's tale, by Margaret Atwood

Witches, pumpkins, and grinning ghosts: the story of the Halloween symbols, by Edna Barth

One hundred years of solitude, by Gabriel Garćia Ḿarquez

Scary stories 3: more tales to chill your bones, by Alvin Schwartz

Appendixes: PAW's most frequently challenged books, 1991-1992

PAW's most frequently challenged books, 1982-1992

PAW's most frequently challenged materials, 1982-1992

PAW's most frequently challenged authors, 1982-1992

PAW's states with the most challenges, 1982-1992.

A survey of major bookbanning incidents

Kanawha County: West - by God - Virginia

Godless textbooks in Washington County, Virginia

Island Trees v. Pico: a first amendment victory

Conflict and compromise in Prince George's County

Hawkins County, Tennessee: my way or the highway

Graves County: Kentucky-fried Faulkner

Panama City, Florida: darkness in the sunshine state

Blasphemy in Cheshire, Connecticut

Impressions: the textbook that brought paganism to California public schools

Nappy hair: it took a book to lose a teacher

Black and banned: books by African women cause a furor in Maryland

The law on bookbanning

Background

Appropriate means and legitimate purposes

The right to receive ideas

Secularism and sex: the twin threats to America

Hazelwood: a chill wind for the 1990s

Improving on the first amendment: states seek remedies to Hazelwood restraints

Positive impressions: courts and schools find common ground

Legislative attacks on the Internet: implications for bookbanning in schools and libraries

Hit Man: the courts say the book made him do it

Voices of banned authors: Judy Blume, Daniel Cohen, Robert Cormier, David Guterson, Lesalea Newman, Katherine Paterson, Jan Slepian

The most frequently banned or challenged books, 1996-2000

The Harry Potter books, by J.K. Rowling

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

I know why the caged bird sings, by Maya Angelou

Of mice and men, by John Steinbeck

The chocolate war, by Robert Cormier

It's perfectly normal: a book about changing bodies, growing up, sex, and sexual health, by Robie H. Harris

The color purple, by Alice Walker

My brother Sam is dead, by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

Kaffir boy: the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in apartheid South Africa, by mark Mathabane

The catcher in the rye, by J.D. Salinger

Daddy's roommate, by Michael Willhoite

The house of spirits, by Isabel Allende

Native son, by Richard Wright

Fallen angels, by Walter Myers

Beloved, by Toni Morrison

Goosebumps series, by R.L. Stine

Snow falling on cedars, by David Guterson

We all fall down, by Robert Cormier

Go ask Alice, by Anonymous

Bless me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya

The handmaid's tale, by Margaret Atwood

The bluest eye, by Toni Morrison

Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes

To kill a mockingbird, by Harper Lee

Iceman, by Chris Lynch

The Alice series, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Brave new world, by Aldous Huxley

One fat summer, by Robert Lipsyte

Always running: La vida loca: gang days in L.A., by Luis A. Rodriguez

Slaughterhouse-five, by Kurt Vonnegut

The joy of gay sex/The new joy of gay sex, by Charles Silverstein

Forever, by Judy Blume

Heather has two mommies, by Lesalea Newman

Two teenagers in twenty: writings by gay and lesbian youth, edited by Ann Heron

The drowning of Stephen Jones, by bette Greene

Women on top: how real life has changed women's sexual fantasies, by Nancy Friday

The giver, by Lois Lowry

The witches, by Roald Dahl

Blubber, by Judy Blume

A day no pigs would die, by Robert Newton Peck

Ordinary people, by Judith Guest

Julie of the wolves, by Jean Craighead George

Jack, by A.M. Homes

Being there, by Jerzy Kosinski

Captain Underpants series, by Dav Pilkey

Fool's crow, by James Welch

Cujo, by Stephen King

A wrinkle in time, by Madeleine L'Engle

Crazy lady, by Jane Leslie Conly

Black boy, by Richard Wright

Appendixes: Office for Intellectual Freedom: the 100 most frequently challenged books of 1990-2000, OIF censorship database 1990-2000: initiator of challenge (chart), OIF censorship database 1990-2000: institution being challenged (chart), OIF censorship database 1990-2000: challenges by type (chart), OIF censorship database 1990-2000: challenges by year (chart), Office for Intellectual Freedom: the most frequently challenged books and authors of 2000, Office for Intellectual Freedom: the most frequently challenged books and authors of 1999, Office for Itnellectual Freedom: the most frequently challenged books and authors of 1998.