Longview Public Library, City of Longview, Washington

Banned Books Week Book List

Top 25 Banned Books for Youth

This is a selection of Teen & Children's Books on the Top 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books (in order by frequency of challenges 1990 - 2000)

#1 Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz; J398.2 SCHWARTZ

#4 (in 2005) The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier; YA CORMIER

#6 (in 2005) Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher; YA CRUTCHER

#7 Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling; JSF ROWLING

#8 (in 2005) What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones; YA SONES

#9 (in 2005) Captain Underpants (Series) by Dav Pilkey; J PILKEY

#9 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson; J PATERSON

#10 Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor; J NAYLOR

#12 My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier; J COLLIER

#13 (#3 in 2005)The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger; YA SALINGER

#14 The Giver by Lois Lowry; J LOWRY

#16 Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine; J STINE

#17 A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck; YA PECK

#21 The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson; J PATERSON

#22 A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle; JSF L'ENGLE

#23 Go Ask Alice by Anonymous; YA GO

#24 Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers; J MYERS

#25 In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak; P SENDAK

#96 How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell; J812.54 ROC (Don't miss the movie on Family Jammie Night, Tuesday, September 26, 6:30 p.m.!)

Other Book Lists and Awards (a work in progress)

Sasquatch Reading Award: Washington Library Media Association (school libraries)

Young Reader's Choice Award: Pacific Northwest Library Association