Banned

Banned Books Week is next week (September 27 – October 3, 2015). Here courtesy of ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom are the most frequently banned or challenged Young Adult Fiction:

  1. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
  2. Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi
  3. The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
  4. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
  5. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
  6. Drama, by Raina Telgemeier
  7. Chinese Handcuffs, by Chris Crutcher
  8. The Giver, by Lois Lowry
  9. The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros
  10. Looking for Alaska, by John Green