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Top 24 Most Banned Books
By: S S
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Scary Stories
• More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, haunts, monsters, and many other scary things.
• By: Alvin Schwartz
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Why was it banned?
It could have been banned because religious reasons and some thought it was too scary.
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A Wrinkle in Time
• Meg and her friends come in contact with unearthly creatures and a search for her father, who disappears while engaged in secret work for the government.
• By: Madeleine L’Engle
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Why was it banned?
It was banned because of wizardry.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• The story of a young boy, his friends, and their lives on the Mississippi River.
• By: Mark Twain
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Why was it banned?
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been banned because of the slang
used to describe African Americans, and other “trashy”, and racist content.
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Harry Potter Books
• A fourth-year student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, longs to escape his hateful relatives, the Dursleys, and live as a normal wizard, but Harry doesn't know he is a normal wizard.
• By: J.K. Rowling
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Why were they banned?
Harry Potter has been banned because some say they promote wizardry, witchcraft, and magic.
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Bridge to Terabithia
• The life of a ten-year-old boy in Virginia expands when he meets a newcomer who meets a untimely death trying to reach their hideout, Terabithia, during a storm.
• By: Katherine Paterson
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Why was it banned?
Its was banned because of the foul language, some say it promotes a
fantasy world, and it has an upsetting ending.
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Alice in Rapture, Sort of
• The summer before the seventh grade becomes the summer of Alice's first boyfriend, she finds out that love is the most mixed-up thing that can happen to you, especially when you don’t have a mom for advice.
• By: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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Why was it banned?
It was banned because of an upsetting ending.
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My Brother Sam is Dead
• The tragedy strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel force while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral at Tory Town.
• By: James Collier
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Why was it banned?
It was banned because of profanity and slang.
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Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets.
• Principle Krupp once again turns into Captain Underpants in order to save the world from talking toilets and the Turbo Toilet 2000.
• By: Dan Pilkey
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Why was it banned?
It was banned because of anti-family content.
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GoosebumpsThe Haunted School
• Tommy Frazer is new to the Bell Valley Middle School and he finds it hard to make friends; then he finds it hard to find anything with a maze of empty classrooms that have voices crying for help behind the walls.
• By: R.L. Stine
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Why was it banned?
It has been banned because some people say it is too scary.
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A Day No Pigs Would Die
• To a thirteen-year-old farm boy from Vermont whose father slaughters pigs for a living, maturity comes early by learning “doing what’s got to be done,” especially regarding his pet who cannot produce litter.
• By: Robert Newton Peck
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Why was it banned?
Description of pigs being slaughtered.
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The Great Gilly Hopkins
• An eleven-year-old foster child tries to cope with her longings and fears as she schemes against everyone to be friendly.
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Why was it banned?
It is banned because of language and character conduct.
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The Witches
• A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is a wizard expert, together fool a witches’ plot to destroy the earth’s children by turning them into mice.
• By: Roald Dahl
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Why was it banned?
It has been banned because of religious objection to witches and
violence.
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Blubber
• Jill goes along with the rest of the fifth-grade class in tormenting a classmate and then finds out what it’s like when she, too, becomes a target.
• By: Judy Blume
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Why was it banned?
Because of the language and physical maturity.
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Julie of the Wolves
• While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.
• By: Jean Craighead George
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Why was it banned?
It is banned because the main character gets married at age 13.
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The Outsiders
• Three brothers struggle to stay together after their parents’ death, as they search for an identity among the conflicting society in in which they find themselves “outsiders.”
• By: S.E. Hinton
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Why was it banned?
It was banned because of the abuse of drugs, language, and violence depicted in the book.
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The Pigman
• Two young people befriend an older man, Mr. Pignati, and learns his awful secret.
• By: Paul Zindel
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Why was it banned?
It has been banned because of its portrayal of liars, cheaters, and
stealers.
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The Boy who Lost his face
• David receives a curse from an elderly woman he has helped his schoolmates attack, and he regrets that he does what others want him to for the sake of popularity.
• By: Louis Sachar
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Why was it banned?
It has been banned because it contains mysticism.
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A Light in the Attic
• A collection of humorous poetry.
• By: Shel Silverstein
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Why was it banned?
It has been banned because it encourages messiness and
disobedience.
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James and the Giant Peach
• James enters a big peach as a house a finds wonderful friends.
• By: Roald Dahl
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Why was it banned?
It has been banned because of mysticism and references to
tobacco and whiskey.
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Crazy Lady
• As he tries to come to terms with his mothers death, Vernon finds solace in his growing relationship with the neighborhood outcast, an alcoholic, and her restarted son
• By: Jane Leslie Conly
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Why was it banned?
It has been banned because it contains offensive language.
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The Face on the Milk Carton
• A photograph of a missing child on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.
• By: Caroline Cooney
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Why was it banned?
It has been banned because of the topic of abducted children and
challenge to authority.
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Summer of My German Soldier
• Sheltering an escaped prisoner of war is the beginning of some experiences for a twelve-year-old girl in Arkansas.
• By: Bette Greene
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Why was it banned?
It has been banned because of racism and offensive language.
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How to Eat Fried Worms
• Two boys make a bet about worms. The bet is to eat 10 fried worms in 10 days.
• Do they do it?
• By: Thomas Rockwell
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Why was it banned?
It has been banned because it encourages inappropriate
behavior.
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Go Check out a Banned Book Today and…
READ!! Read!!! READ!!!!!
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Works Cited
• Amazon.com
• Barnes & Noble.com