Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
Sex and violence abound as we meet Vivian, a young werewolf trying to make her way in the world and get some hot man meat. Possibly by eating him.
Banned
2001 - Texas - Temporarily pulled from LaPorte Independent School District library shelves for review and possibly amend its selection policies
#57 Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009
South Carolina
teacher called it 'low-level filth that corrupts'
Greenville schools removed the book but eventually returned it to the shelves
Texas
woman called author at her work to say she was asking for the book to be removed from her daughter's high school library because, in author's words, "I had allowed a teenaged girl to accept and even revel in her own sexuality."
"Cullen Middle School... stated that the book contained profanity, sexual content or nudity, and violence or horror."
Contains (according to Common Sense Media) violence, sex, language, consumerism, drinking, drugs, and smoking
Sources
ALA. "Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009." Retrieved on 17 Aug 01 from http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/top-100-bannedchallenged-books-2000-2009
Ehrlich, Brenna. "WHAT DID THIS YA AUTHOR DO TO GET BANNED FROM SCHOOL LIBRARIES?" MTV News, 2014. Retrieved 2017 September 29 from http://www.mtv.com/news/1944296/banned-books-week-annette-curtis-klause/
Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read. ALA. 2014.
Klause, Annette Curtis. Blood and Chocolate. Delacorte Press, 1997.
Wheadon, Carrie R. "Blood and Chocolate book review." Common Sense Media. Retrieved 2017 September 29 from https://www.commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews/blood-and-chocolate#
YALSA 1998 Best Books. Retrieved Sept 29, 2017 from https://web.archive.org/web/20061204100859/http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/bestbooksya/1998bestbooks.htm
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