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[|100 Most Frequently Banned Books]

**Who banned the books?:** -teachers -librarians -government **What kinds of books did they ban?:** The books that were selected to be ban came in variety. They would ban books that spoke of any kind of violence, homosexuality, profanity, or drug use. Pretty much any book they thought was "bad" for society was to be gone. **Why did they censor books?:** They wanted to censor books to block out bad ideas. Their idea was to ban books out of schools to keep violence, homosexuality, profanity, etc. out of the picture. If people didn't read about it, then they aren't acknowledged of it. **What was the public reaction?:** The public was mad about the banned books because they thought it was a dumb idea. They also thought that it was taking away kids learning opportunity. The public felt as if they shouldn't be told what they can and can not read. They also thought that it should be up to them what they want and don't want to read. The first amendment states that, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.", meaning if America went as far as to ban books, they themselves, would be hypocrites. **Punishment:** There was no real punishment, but a teacher could possibly lose their job for teaching about a banned book. Sometimes a parent would call the school and complain to the Principle and in turn the Principle would talk to the teacher. The teacher would have to either stop teaching the book or they could get in further trouble. People frowned upon people who wanted to be rebellious and read the "bad" books anyways. **Banned Book Week:** Banned book week is September 25th through October 2nd. It is the last week of September of each year. It is an annual event held each year that celebrates the freedom to read, and the importance of the First Amendment. **List of Banned Books:** //A Clockwork Orange// by Anthony Burgess //A Wrinkle in Time// by Madeleine L'Engle //Annie on My Mind// by Nancy Garden //As I Lay Dying// by William Faulkner //Blubber// by Judy Blume //Brave New World// by Aldous Huxley //Bridge to Terabithia// by Katherine Paterson //Canterbury Tales// by Chaucer //Carrie// by Stephen King //Catch-22// by Joseph Heller //Christine// by Stephen King //Confessions// by Jean-Jacques Rousseau //Cujo// by Stephen King //Curses, Hexes, and Spells// by Daniel Cohen //Daddy's Roommate// by Michael Willhoite //Day No Pigs Would Die// by Robert Peck //Death of a Salesman// by Arthur Miller //Decameron// by Boccaccio //East of Eden// by John Steinbeck //Fallen Angels// by Walter Myers //Fanny Hill// (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland //Flowers For Algernon// by Daniel Keyes //Forever// by Judy Blume //Grendel// by John Champlin Gardner //Halloween ABC// by Eve Merriam Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling //Have to Go// by Robert Munsch //Heather Has Two Mommies// by Leslea Newman //How to Eat Fried Worms// by Thomas Rockwell //Huckleberry Finn// by Mark Twain //I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings// by Maya Angelou //Impressions// edited by Jack Booth //In the Night Kitchen// by Maurice Sendak //It's Okay if You Don't Love Me// by Norma Klein James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl //Lady Chatterley's Lover// by D.H. Lawrence //Leaves of Grass// by Walt Whitman Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm //Lord of the Flies// by William Golding //Love is One of the Choices// by Norma Klein //Lysistrata// by Aristophanes //More Scary Stories in the Dar//k by Alvin Schwartz //My Brother Sam Is Dead// by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier //My House// by Nikki Giovanni My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara //Night Chills// by Dean Koontz //Of Mice and Men// by John Steinbeck //On My Honor// by Marion Dane Bauer //One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich// by Alexander Solzhenitsyn //One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest// by Ken Kesey //One Hundred Years of Solitude// by Gabriel Garcia Marquez //Ordinary People// by Judith Guest //Our Bodies, Ourselves// by Boston Women's Health Collective //Prince of Tides// by Pat Conroy //Revolting Rhymes// by Roald Dahl //Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones// by Alvin Schwartz //Scary Stories in the Dark// by Alvin Schwartz //Separate Peace// by John Knowles //Silas Marner// by George Eliot //Slaughterhouse-Five// by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. //Tarzan of the Apes// by Edgar Rice Burroughs The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain //The Bastard// by John Jakes //The Catcher in the Rye// by J.D. Salinger //The Chocolate War// by Robert Cormier //The Color Purple// by Alice Walker //The Devil's Alternative// by Frederick Forsyth //The Figure in the Shadows// by John Bellairs //The Grapes of Wrath// by John Steinbeck //The Great Gilly Hopkins// by Katherine Paterson //The Handmaid's Tale// by Margaret Atwood //The Headless Cupid// by Zilpha Snyder //The Learning Tree// by Gordon Parks //The Living Bible// by William C. Bower //The Merchant of Venice// by William Shakespeare //The New Teenage Body Book// by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman //The Pigman// by Paul Zindel //The Seduction of Peter S//. by Lawrence Sanders //The Shining// by Stephen King //The Witches// by Roald Dahl //The Witches of Worm// by Zilpha Snyder //Then Again, Maybe I Won't// by Judy Blume To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee //Twelfth Night// by William Shakespeare //Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary// by the Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff //Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols// by Edna Barth