Banned Books Week: Most challenged books of 2011

 The list changes from year to year. The reasons for the most part do not.

After I read it, I told my older daughter, who LOVES the Hunger Games, I bet this series will wind up on the challenged books list and it did in 2010. It moved from 5 in 2010 to 3 in 2011.


1.ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series), by Lauren Myracle


Reasons: offensive language; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group


2.The Color of Earth (series), by Kim Dong Hwa

Reasons: nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group


3.The Hunger Games trilogy, by Suzanne Collins

Reasons: anti-ethnic; anti-family; insensitivity; offensive language; occult/satanic; violence


4.My Mom's Having A Baby! A Kid's Month-by-Month Guide to Pregnancy, by Dori Hillestad Butler

Reasons: nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group


5.The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie

Reasons: offensive language; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group


6.Alice (series), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Reasons: nudity; offensive language; religious viewpoint


7.Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

Reasons: insensitivity; nudity; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit


8.What My Mother Doesn't Know, by Sonya Sones

Reasons: nudity; offensive language; sexually explicit


9.Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily Von Ziegesar

Reasons: drugs; offensive language; sexually explicit


10.To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

Reasons: offensive language; racism



  Mechele.