Top 10 Challenged Books of 2012

Celebrate your freedom to read during Banned Books Week:  Open your Mind, Challenge your Perspectives, Read Something Different!  According to http://www.bannedbooksweek.org/ , these were the most challenged books of 2012:

1. Captain Underpants (series), by Dav Pilkey.| Reasons: Offensive language, unsuited for age group
2. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie |.Reasons: Offensive language, racism, sexually explicit, unsuited for age group
3. Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher.| Reasons: Drugs/alcohol/smoking, sexually explicit, suicide, unsuited for age group
4. Fifty Shades of Grey, by E. L. James.| Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit
5. And Tango Makes Three, by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson.| Reasons: Homosexuality, unsuited for age group
6. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini.| Reasons: Homosexuality, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit
7. Looking for Alaska, by John Green.| Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited for age group
8. Scary Stories (series), by Alvin Schwartz | Reasons: Unsuited for age group, violence
9. The Glass Castle, by Jeanette Walls | Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit
10. Beloved, by Toni Morrison | Reasons: Sexually explicit, religious viewpoint, violence