Hegira

Note that these book were challenged, not banned. This means that someone tried to have them removed from the library collection. Banned means that they succeeded. Since there is such a large preponderance of children's books - especially middle school age appropriate - and since most challenges come from parents, this list probably reflects people's unwillingness to let their kids grow up, think for themselves, or be exposed to any ideas except the parents. Hah! We know how successful that is! Banned books, which were really removed from libraries, include things like Lady Chatterly's Lover (not really too interesting, IMNSHO.) and Henry Miller's Lexus/Sexus/Nexus series, etc, banned mostly for sexuality. It's amazing how many of these challenged books we encouraged kids to read when I taught middle school! We clearly had a very risque curriculum - or at least a demonic one ;) .