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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
#5 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain; YA TWAIN
#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; 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
Last updated November 22nd, 2011