Children's Books
This children’s chapterbook series contains an elementary school principal, hypnosis, and tighty whiteys.
What is Captain Underpants?
This trilogy features a bow and arrow wielding teen fighting not just for her survival, but to take down a corrupt government.
What is The Hunger Games?
This author, who is a New Jersey state treasure, has her books Forever, Blubber, Are You There God, It’s Me, Margaret, and Tiger Eyes frequently challenged.
Who is Judy Blume?
You know this guy, he speaks for the trees. He was also banned from a California school in 1989 for "criminalizing the foresting industry".
Who is The Lorax?
Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, and Elizabeth Banks
What is The Hunger Games ( Suzanne Collins)?
Started in the 90s, this hair raising series contains titles like 'Stay Out Of The Basement', 'The Haunted Mask' and 'The Werewolf of Fever Swamp'.
What is Goosebumps by R.L. Stine?
This is a touching true story about a young girl trying to survive the Holocaust...and it has also been challenged for anatomical descriptions in the book.
What is The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
This young adult author has had several successful online projects, such as Crash Course, VlogBrothers and VidCon.
Who is John Green?
A lot of you may have read this series about a precocious girl who gets into trouble at home and at school...and also get challenged for using bad grammar.
What is Junie B. Jones?
Oprah Winfrey, Storm Reid, Zach Galifianakis, and Chris Pine
What is A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle)?
In this book, an orphaned boy goes on an adventure with a magically altered fruit, and several garden variety insects. It has faced challenges for scary scenes, disobedience and anti-authority messages, tobacco and alcohol as well as mild profanity.
What is James And The Giant Peach?
This classic book (also a movie) is about two friends who create a secret kingdom in the woods...which some adults believed promoted a belief in the supernatural.
What is Bridge to Terabithia?
This author of The Hate U Give witnessed gang violence at a young age. Her mother took her to the library after this incident, "to show her that there was more to the world than what (she) saw that day". She credits this experience with making her want to be a writer.
Who is Angie Thomas?
This comic memoir about the artist’s father living through the Holocaust has won a Pulitzer Prize, and has been used in classrooms for years to teach about World War II and antisemitism. In 2020, the McMinn County Board Of Education voted unanimously to ban the book based on “rough, objectionable language” and a drawing of a naked woman.
What is Maus?
Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Robert Pattinson and Billy Burke
What is Twilight (Stephenie Meyer)?
You might be surprised to see this one on the list. This well-known collection of hilarious poems and drawings was challenged for undermining parental, school, and religious authority.
What is Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein.
This book about a plane full of British school boys trapped on an uninhabited island is considered a classic. While the collapse of order and society is arguably the point the author wants to draw attention to, its critics complain that it is violent and profane.
What is Lord Of The Flies?
This author wrote a classic story featuring a father who defends a black man whil trying to care for his children in Alabama. She created the character Boo Radley.
Who is Harper Lee?
This (aptly named) children’s novel is about a fourth grader who creates a banned book library after several books are banned from her school library. Members of a school board in Indian River County voted to remove this book, accusing it of “teaching rebellion of school board authority”.
What is Ban This Book (Alan Gratz).
Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, and Olivia de Havilland
What is Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)?
The book was banned and then reprinted because it originally showed a topless beachgoer (not like anyone could find her if they tried though).
What is Where's Waldo?
This book follows a year in the life of a high school student after she is sexually assaulted and stops talking.
What is Speak?
His most famous stories have almost all been banned at some time. His most famous feature giant fruit, giant bugs, magical children and a chocolate factory.
Who is Roald Dahl?
Due to themes of death and the fact that the main characters are talking animals, a parent group in Kansas sought to ban the book from their students' school libraries.
What is Charlotte's Web by E. B. White?
Ansel Elgort, Shailene Woodley, Willem Dafoe and Laura Dern
What is The Fault in our Stars (John Green)?