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Books are banned in Nazi hotels and then we sorta get into the book.
1972 - Ohio - Strongsville School board voted it out with Cat's Cradle, overturned 1976 by SSB vs Minarcini by the US District Court
Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read. ALA. 2014.
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The world is ending with the water freezing over and the library is getting sued as we continue with Kurt Vonnegut month!
1972 - Ohio - Strongsville School Board voted to be withdrawn from the school libraries. Overturned in 1976 by U.S. District Court in Minarcini Vs Strongsville City School District
1982 - New Hampshire - Challenged at Merrimack High School
Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read. ALA. 2014.
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Vonnegut month continues with a tale of man machines and the library has a story about a machine who tried to assimilate a man for reasons.
1995 - Illinois - Challenged at Monmouth School District library as "pornographic trash"
Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read. ALA. 2014.
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A banned book unstuck in time and how the library kept its forest despite mutant dogs. #godwearspants or #godalmightypees
1972 - Michigan - Rochester banned for containing and making reference to "religious matters"
1973 - North Dakota - Challenged at many communities, but burned in Drake
1975 - New York - Banned in Levittown
1979 - Ohio - Banned in North Jackson
1982 - Florida - Banned in Lakeland for "explicit sexual scenes, violence, and obscene language."
1984 - Wisconsin - Barred for purchase in Rancine by an administrative assistant for instructional services
1985 - Kentucky - Challenged in Owensboro for language a secont with an image depicting beastiality, a reference to Magic Fingers on a bed, and the line "The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of the fly of God Almighty."
1986 - Wisconsin - Restricted in Racine to parental permission at the flour Racine Unified District high schools for "language, depictions of torture, ethnic slurs, and negative portrayals of women."
1987
Georgia - challenged in Fitzgerald for profanity and sexual reference
Kentucky - challenged in LaRue County for language and "deviant sexual behavior"
1988 - Louisiana - challenged in a Baton Rouge high school library as "vulgar and offensive"
1989 - Michigan - challenged in Monroe high schools for language and portrayal of women
1996 - Texas - challenged in Round Rock high school for being too violent
1998 - Virginia - banned in Prince William County high schools for profanity and sex
2000 - Rhode Island - Removed from Coventry high school reading list after a parent complained of language, violence and sex
2006 - Illinois - A school board member in Arlington Heights, elected on a platform to bring Christian values to board decision making, raised a controversy about several books based on excerpts of the books she found on the Internet
2007 - Michigan - Challenged in Livingston County at Howell High School for strong sexual content by the organization Livingston Organization for Values in Education (LOVE). LOVE asked law enforcement to review the book for distributing sexually explicit conduct to minors. The county prosecutor said the book was not criminally liable, containing content of an artistic, literary, or political nature.
2010 - Missouri - Removed and later returned from Republic high schools, available only to parents. Teachers cannot acquire or read aloud from it. A resident said it taught principles contrary to the Bible.
Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read. ALA. 2014.
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Crazy lady's in books, terrorists in supermarkets, and were-garous down in the swamp branch library.
1996 - Illinois - Challenged at Prospect Heights school libraries for "swear words"
1997 - California - restricted to parental permission at San Jose Unified School District for language including "damn, hell, and bitch."
Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read. ALA: 2014.
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It's a bunch of sports related small stories, and Granny Wendy would be mad.
#44 Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009
1995 - South Carolina - Challenged in Charleston County for divorce, violence, AIDS, and homosexuality.
1999 - Alaska - Challenged and pulled but retained from Anchorage middle school libraries after a parent complained about lack of respect for parents and God as well as homosexuality and language.
2004 - Iowa - "In the Time I Get" was challenged and retained on the Solon 8th grade language arts class for discussion of AIDS.
Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009
Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read. ALA: 2014.
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A novel about the Revolutionary War meets a story about librarian spring break gone bad.
2000 - New Hampshire - Challenged yet retained by a "concerned Christian" as part of the John Fuller School curriculum in Conway
2008 - Florida - Banned from the shelves of Bay District school library in Panama City after a parent complained of profanities by soldiers.
#42 Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009
Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom To Read. ALA: 2014.
Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009 http://www.ala.org/bbooks/top-100-bannedchallenged-books-2000-2009
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Gathering a group of ragtag individuals is important, either to get confidence through sports or take down a conservationist construction worker with owls.
2005
Alabama - Removed for profanity from Limestone County high school libraries
Michigan - Challenged at Grand Ledge High School
South Carolina - Removed from the suggested reading list for a pilot English-literature curriculum by the superintendent of the South Carolina Board of Education
2007 - Iowa - Challenged at the Missouri Valley High School for racial slurs and profanity
Doyle, Robert P. "Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read." ALA. 2014.
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Life is Funny as a pair of teens find out in the library.
2005 - California - Pulled from Two Merced middle-school libraries for sexual content. There were complaints of an "x-rated" passage between two teens having sex.
Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read. ALA. 2014.
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We hear about a hallmark of African-American literature and a road trip into the wilds of Texas our librarian once took.
1997 - Virginia - Challenged for sexual explicitness, but retained on the Stonewall Jackson High School's academically advanced reading list in Brentsville. A parent objected to the novel's language and sexual explicitness.
Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read. ALA. 2014.
"Dances and Dames" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/