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Major Dude
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Here is a list I got from my Enlgish teacher of the 50 most banned books in the 90's:
1) Impessions - edited by Jack Booth, et al. 2) Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 3) The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger 4) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain 5) The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier 6) Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson 7) Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark - Alvin Schwartz 8) More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark - Alvin Schwartz 9) The Witches - Roald Dahl 10) Daddy's Roomate - Michael Willhoite 11) Curses, Hexes, and Spells - Daniel Cohen 12) A Wrinkle in Time - Madeling L'Engle 13) How to Eat Fried Worms - Thomas Rockwell 14) Blubber - Judy Blume 15) Revolting Rhymes - Roald Dahl 16) Halloween ABC's - Ever Merriam 17) A Day No Pigs Would Die - Robert Peck 18) Heather Has Two Mommies - Leslea Newman 19) Christine - Stephen King 20) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou 21) Fallen Angels - Walter Myers 22) The New Teenage Body Book - Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman 23) Little Red Riding Hood - Brothers Grimm 24) The Headless Cupid - Zilpha Snyder 25) Night Chills - Dean Koontz 26) Lord of the Flies - William Golding 27) A Separate Peace - John Knowles 28) Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut 29) The Color Purple - Alice Walker 30) James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl 31) The Learning Tree - Gordon Parks 32) The Witches of Worm - Zilpha Snyder 33) My Brother Sam is Dead - James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier 34) The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 35) Cujo - Stephen King 36) The Great Gilly Hopkins - Katherine Paterson 37) The Figure in the Shadows - John Bellairs 38) On My Honors - Marion Dane Bauer 39) In the Night Kitchen - Maurice Sendak 40) Grendel - John Champlin Gardner 41) I Have to Go - Robert Munsch 42) Annie on My Mind - Nancy Garden 43) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain 44) The Pigman - Paul Zindel 45) My House - Nikki Giovanni 46) Then Again, Maybe I Won't - Judy Blume 47) The Handmaiden's Tale - Margaret Atwood 48) Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of Halloween Symbols - Edna Barth 49) One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 50) Scary Stories 3: More Tales To Chill Your Bones - Alvin Schwartz Now I don't know about you guys, but this list is pathedic. Halloween ABC's?! Dear God, these people have no lives, I swear... I don't know about all you, but I now want to buy all these books just to spite those morons. "We are fortunate: we are alive; we are powerful; the welfare of our civilization and our species is in our hands. If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be?" -Carl Sagan |
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