Nina Levine's List: Banned Books

ALA provides print outs of those challenges that were reported to them. For each incident, the nature of the challenge, the results, and the date and location of the challenge are reported.

ALA provides informaton on book challenges.

ALA sponsored definitions of Expression of Concern, Oral Complaint, Written Complaint, Public Attack, Censorship.

"Plot Summary: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." DISCovering Authors. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Gale Student Resources In Context. Web. 6 Dec. 2010.

From ALAN Review v22n1
by Sharon A. Stringer

about Robert Cormier

Video in the style of Margaret Wise Brown's Goodnight Moon as a tribute to challenged and banned books.

The University of Virginia hosts this online exhibit to explore examples of censorship.

Jim Trelease's website includes articles on censorship of children's books.
2.Religion, Harry Potter, and the Taliban
3.The Vatican weighs in on Harry Potter
4.'Forbidden fruit' concept in censorship
5.Banning 'Bridge to Terabithia'
6.Censoring Red Riding Hood's grandma
7.Censoring Thomas Merton, Judy Blume, — even Bill Martin Jr.
8.The Great Textbook War
8.Book-lynching in Indianapolis High School
9.Saving us from 'Private Ryan'
10.Censorship and hysteria: McCarthyism, Walter Cronkite, and a smear victim
11.Picking the censors: William Bennett, Bill O'Reilly, or Murdoch's Fox Network?
12.Test and textbook censors
13.Capt. Underpants and Junie B. Jones
14.When is it 'inappropriate'?

YouTube videos of readings from a wide variety of challenged and/or banned books.

Blog posting from the Office of Intellectual Freedom on Sherman Alexie's book: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Office of Intellectual Freedom posts this discussion of the Perks of Being a Wallflower.

Author Carolyn Mackler speaks about the experience of writing and having her book challenged.

Lauren Myracle speaks about the experience of having her books challenged in her blog of September 2010

1.And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
2.The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
3.Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
4.Crank by Ellen Hopkins
5.The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
6.Lush by Natasha Friend
7.What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones
8.Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
9.Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology by Amy Sonnie
10.Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Lauren Myracle speaks about her books and the experience of having her books challenged.

Beacon for Freedom of Expression dedicated to the Library of Alexandria

Colorado High School Bans "Bless Me Ultima"
From the Denver Post, February 3, 2005

Norwood schools ban book


"Superintendent Bob Conder said some parents were offended by obscene language and paganistic practices in 'Bless Me, Ultima,' a 1972 coming-of-age novel by Rudolfo Anaya about a 7-year-old boy who experiences life through the different prisms of his staunch-Catholic mother Luna and Ultima, a curandera who uses herbs and magic to heal. 'There weren't so many parents who were concerned, but when it was brought to my attention I was concerned,' Conder said Wednesday. 'It's less a matter of censorship than a matter of sponsorship. That's not the kind of garbage I want to sponsor at this high school.'"

More here.

And an update here (from the Grand Junction Sentinal, 2/4/2005) about student actions to protest the ban.