Banned Book Week 2007 – Title

Banned/Challenged Books of 2006-2007 – Title List

• Abduction! – Peg Kehret
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
• Alice in Jeopardy! – Ed McBain
• The Alice series – Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• America: A Novel – E. R. Frank
• And Tango Makes Three – Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
• Attack of the Mutant Underwear – Tom Birdseye
• The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman – Ernest J. Gaines
• The Awakening – Kate Chopin
• Baseball Saved Us – Ken Mochizuki
• Bastard of Istanbul – Elif Shafak
• Beloved – Toni Morrison
• Black Boy – Richard Wright
• Blankets – Craig Thompson
• The Blind Owl – Sadegh Heydayat
• The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
• The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s Eye View of the World – Michael Pollan
• Cassell Dictionary of Slang – Jonathon Green, ed.
• The Chocolate War – Robert Cormier
• Cuba – Sharon Gordon
• Cuban Kids – George Ancona
• The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
• The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things – Carolyn Mackler
• Fahrenheit 451 – Bradbury, Ray
• Fallen Angels – Walter Dean Myers
• Fat Kids Rules the Wold – K. L. Going
• A Fisherman of the Inland Sea – Ursula K. LeGuin
• Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything – Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
• The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them – Freedom Writers
• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic – Alison Bechdel
• Gilgamesh: A New English Version – Stephen Mitchell
• Girl with a Pearl Earring – Tracy Chevalier
• The Giver – Lois Lowry
• Gossip Girls series – Cecily Von Ziegesar
• The Guy Book: An Owner’s Manual – Mavis Jukes
• The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J. K. Rowling
• How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents – Julia Alverez
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
• I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild’s Pocket Book – Iona Archibald Opie and Peter Opie
• In the Night Kitchen – Maurice Sendak
• The Joy of Gay Sex – Charles Silverstein and Felice Picano
• Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky, Peeky Spying – Barbara Chuck Park
• Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa – Mark Mathabane
• King & King – Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland
• Learning Tree – Gordon Park
• Lily’s Ghosts – Laura Ruby
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• Manga: 60 Years of Japanese Comics – Paul Gravett
• Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media – Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman
• More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark – Schwartz, Alvin
• My Brother’s Hero! – Adrian Fogelin
• The Notebook Girls: Four Friends, One Diary, Real Life – Julia Baskin, Lindsey Newman, Sophie Pollitt-Cohen, and Courtney Toombs
• Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
• 100 Greatest Tyrants – Andrew Langley
• Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story – Lisa Westberg Peters
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
• Rainbow Boys – Alex Sanchez
• Real Girls/Real World: Tools for Finding Your True Self – Heather M. Gray and Samantha Philips
• Reluctantly Alice – Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• Romiette and Julio – Sharon M. Draper and Adam Lowenbein
• Running with Scissors – Burroughs, Augusten
• The Scary Stories series – Alvin Schwartz
• Sex Kittens and Horn Dawgs Fall in Love – Maryrose Wood
• Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
• So Far from the Bamboo Grove – Yoko Kawashima Watkins
• The Spoken Word Revolution – Mark Elveld
• The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
• TTYL – Lauren Myracle
• The Veldt – Ray Bradbury
• Voyage of the Basset – James C. Christensen, Renwick St. James, & Alan Dean Foster
• Vamos a Cuba [A Visit to Cuba] -Alta Schreier
• Vegan Virgin Valentine – Carolyn Mackler
• Whale Talk – Chris Crutcher
• What’s Eating Gilbert Grape – Peter Hedges
• Wizardology: The Book of the Secrets of Merlin – Dugald Steer
• Zero to Sixty: The Motorcycle Journey of a Lifetime – Gary Paulsen/li>

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Ron Titus, titus@marshall.edu
304-696-6575

Last updated

July 20, 2010