Children's books were most commonly challenged last year
The Sacramento Bee has the American Library Association's new list of most commonly challenged books at public and school libraries and at bookstores. The group is promoting the list as part of this week's "Banned Books Week."
Most of the books on this year's list are for children, but Harry Potter, which led the list for the past five years, dropped out of the top 10.
While past Banned Books Lists have included such famous works as John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men," Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn," and the 2006 list features Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Beloved," Krug points out that this year's list "has a lot of coming-of-age stories for young people." These include the "Alice" series of books by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, which have been attacked for their sexual content and language, and Chris Crutcher's "Athletic Shorts," in which teenage athletes deal with such issues as racism and homophobia.
Here's the link to the story and the list.