Many of the most beloved books ever written have been challenged and pulled from schools or libraries at one time or another. Many of these titles have been challenged on a regular basis, and are still absent from certain libraries across the country today. Answer the following questions about these 'challenged' books to collect the coordinates to the final container. All of the following books have been banned or challenged, at one place or another in the United States, due to 'objectionable material.' Many of them might surprise you...
N34 A B . C D E
W118 F G . H I J
0 - Of Mice and Men
1 - Charlotte's Web
2- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
3 - The Lord of The Flies
4 - The Catcher in the Rye
5 - The Diary of Anne Frank
6 - Speak
7 - Gone With the Wind
8 - Where's Waldo
9 - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
2 - Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
3 - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
4 - To Kill a Mockingbird
5 - The Giving Tree
6 - Captain Underpants (Series)
7 - Little House on the Prairie
8 - The Giver
9 - Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
0 - The Hunger Games
1 - Call of the Wild
2 - Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
3 - Webster's Dictionary
4 - Harriet the Spy
A - First book in the heavily banned and yet dearly beloved series - The three reasons given most frequently for the challenges: it promotes the occult, it has anti-family themes, and it has violence.
B - The Illinois Police Association, along with 11 other states, tried to get libraries to remove this book in 1977 because it portrays policemen as pigs.
C - This autobiographical novel has won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature. It was also named one of the Los Angeles Times' Favorite Children's Books of 2007 and the New York Times' Notable Children's Books of 2007. According to the ALA, this was the third most challenged book of 2013 due to...a slew of reasons. Other lists have it as the #1 most challenged of last year. For the record, this is also the MOST recommended book in Carlfan99's classroom!
D. Banned from a public library in Colorado for being sexist (huh?) Has also been accused of criminalizing the forestry agency.
E. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961. To date it has sold more than 30 million copies and been translated into over 40 languages. Is frequently challenged for 'racial slurs, profanity, and inappropriate content.'
F - In 2006, some parents in a Kansas school district requested that this book be removed from classrooms when they decided that talking animals are blasphemous and unnatural. According to the parent group at the heart of the issue, ‘humans are the highest level of God’s creation and are the only creatures that can communicate vocally. Showing lower life forms with human abilities is sacrilegious and disrespectful to God.’
G - This classic children's book was banned by the State Board of Education in Texas in 2010 due to a simple mistake. A board member mixed up Martin with another author named Bill Martin who had written a book for adults titled "Ethical Marxism: The Categorical Imperative of Liberation." No one bothered to check if the two authors were indeed the same person. Whoops!
H. This book has been challenged and/or banned since the 1950s mainly due to the promotion of euthanasia, racial slurs, being anti- business, and containing offensive language. This book, as well as many others from this Pulitzer Prize winning author, remains a constant within the literature curriculum in high schools.
I. While considered one of the most influential books ever written, this book has been challenged numerous times for sexually explicit passages, and, in 1983, the Alabama State Textbook Committee called for rejecting the book because it was "a real downer."
J. In 1988, a librarian in Boulder, Colorado took this book off the shelf because it "espoused a poor philosophy of life." One of the first objections to the book came in the early 70s when a children's book author by the name of Eleanor Cameron wrote an essay calling this book "one of the most tasteless books ever written for children!" Tasteless...I find that ironic.
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