Banned Book Week

The Things They Carried

2007

Retained on the Northwest Suburban HS District 214 reading list in Arlington Heights (IL) along with eight other challenged titles. A newly elected school board member raised the controversy based on excerpts from the books she'd found on the Internet.

2003

Banned from the George County(MS) schools because of profanity.

2001

Challenged, but retained, in Pennridge (PA) because of the book's strong language.

Held at Marshall (Drinko Library, PS3565.B74748 1998).

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