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A boy wizard with a lightning-shaped scar attends a magical school, where he faces a dark lord who fears his very name.
What is Harry Potter?
This book has been banned an uncountable amount of times and proposed for censorship 54 times for promoting euthanasia, including racial stereotypes, containing profanity, and being "anti-business".
What is Of Mice and Men?
This is a classic book by Roald Dahl involving a piece of fruit ...and it was also banned for using the word that is also used for a donkey.
What is James and Giant Peach?
A woman’s past refuses to stay buried when a mysterious young stranger arrives, forcing her to confront the haunting legacy of slavery and the desperate choice she once made to protect her child—this Pulitzer Prize–winning novel by Toni Morrison shares its title with the ghostly presence at its center.
What is Beloved?
The most widespread form of censorship in the United States.
What is Book Banning?
A teenage girl falls for a mysterious classmate who sparkles in sunlight—and happens to be a vampire.
What is Twilight?
This book has been challenged nearly 11,000 times for Violence, Euthanasia, Infanticide, Suicide, Sexual Content, drug use, and Degrading depictions of motherhood and childhood.
What is The Giver?
This series about a group of teenagers at a private school on the Upper East Side was made into a popular TV series...and it was also challenged for offensive language.
What is Gossip Girl?
This dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury follows a fireman who burns books until he begins to question his role in a society that fears knowledge—its title refers to the temperature at which paper is said to ignite.
What is Fahrenheit 451?
The genre of literature which is the most targeted for censorship in the United States.
What is children's literature?
A mysterious millionaire throws lavish parties in hopes of rekindling a lost love across the bay.
What is The Great Gatsby?
This book has been challenged an unknown-yet small-amount of times for being a children's story that includes topics of fear, punishment, escapism, and supposedly witchcraft.
What is Where The Wild Things Are?
You might not be able to remember where there was offensive language in this book, but this story about Meg and Charles Wallace Murry has been challenged for it.
What is "A Wrinkle in Time"?
This novel by William Golding follows a group of boys stranded on an uninhabited island whose attempt at order descends into chaos, exploring the darker side of human nature.
What is Lord of the Flies?
The first amendment of the Constitution grants what rights?
What are freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition?
A shy high school freshman navigates friendship, love, and trauma through letters to an anonymous confidant.
What is Perks Of Being A Wildflower?
This book was challenged multiple times for showing the logging industry in a negative light, environmentalism, and anti-capatilist themes.
What is The Lorax?
This series by Suzanne Collins is a hit movie franchise...and it was challenged for offensive language.
What is The Hunger Games?
This dystopian novel depicts a totalitarian society ruled by Big Brother, where constant surveillance and thought control suppress individuality.
What is 1984?
Most common location for book challenges to occur...
What are schools?
An American volunteer in the Spanish Civil War faces love and mortality while on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines with a guerilla group. Cue the Metallica...
What is For Whom The Bell Tolls?
This widely read text has been challenged or banned at times for reasons including depictions of violence, sexual content, and differing interpretations that have sparked political or cultural controversy.
What is The Bible?
Some might say that this popular series by Dav Pilkey, featuring two boys who have created an odd superhero, has an offensive word in the title.
What is Captain Underpants?
This novel is narrated by a young girl in the segregated South as her father defends a Black man falsely accused of a crime, exploring themes of justice and racial inequality.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
Which Shakespeare play has been challenged and/or banned?
Literally all of them!