The first negative letter was from a grandmother in Minnesota who was annoyed that [the main character] had acted out and that she wasn’t using the Queen’s English.

Parents attempted to ban this children’s book series from local libraries and schools.

Gloria Steinem urged people to boycott this book because of its depiction of violence against women. Years later, her stepson Christian Bale starred in the movie adaptation.

o set the record straight, I should point out that my books contain no sex, no profanity, no nudity, no drugs, and no graphic violence (at least nothing you wouldn’t see in a 1950’s Superman comic book.) So what’s the big deal? Well, most of it boils down to the fact that not every book is right for every person. There are some adults out there who are not amused by the things that make most children laugh, and so they try to stomp these things out. We’ve all met people like that, haven’t we?”

This series of illustrated books for grade schoolers has often been challenged and banned by those who find that it is unsuited for its intended age audience, & that it encourages children to disobey.

Back in the mid-1990s, this children’s book featuring a hard-to-find wandering protagonist was banned in New York and Michigan for an image of a wardrobe malfunction.

A hit Netflix series is based on this book, which has been banned for discussing teen suicide.

Take a trip down the rabbit hole with this book, which has been banned in the U.S. for perceived drug references.

This book, authored by John Green and featuring our 49th state, was banned in Kentucky in 2016.

This 2017 young adult novel was banned and challenged because of profanity, drug use, and sexual references, and it was deemed “anti-cop.” 

AMC broadcasts a series based on this comic, which was banned in an Idaho school district despite a review committee’s recommendation that it stay on shelves.

Utopia isn’t so perfect in this novel, which was banned in Ireland in 1932 & has been challenged in Missouri, Oklahoma, Cali, Alabama, Texas, and Idaho due to the depiction of sex, drug use, suicide

This Oklahoman wrote and published her first novel while still in high school, and it was one of the four young adult novels she authored that were challenged or banned over the course of her career

Don’t get it twisted, this author says "Censorship is most often a reflection of the fears of the censors, their fears that they are not up to the task of having conversations about these hard things.

At least three novels by this adventure-seeking journalist and novelist, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954, have been challenged or banned.

GUESS THIS BANNED BOOK: "It was a pleasure to burn."

GUESS THIS BANNED BOOK:If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied...

GUESS THIS BANNED BOOK: “I shouldn’t have come to this party."

GUESS THIS BANNED BOOK: “When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold."

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

GUESS THIS BANNED BOOK: “I was born with water on the brain.”

GUESS THIS BANNED BOOK: “It’s my first morning of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomachache.”

GUESS THIS BANNED BOOK: “Dear friend, I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn’t try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have.”

GUESS THIS BANNED BOOK: “Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."

What was the first year that Banned Books Week was celebrated?

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