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