BANNED BOOKS

 

  Frequently and/or recently challenged and/or banned books. Not

  challenged or banned at Uni, so we have them all. Each book includes

  title, author, call number (where to find it at Uni!), and a short

  description from NoveList.

 

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  Bless Me, Ultima

  Anaya, Rudolfo A.

  Fiction An188 1999

  A young New Mexico boy comes of age.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  Angelou, Maya

  B. A5846a11993

  Maya Angelou’s autobiography depicting her precarious existence in

  racist, Depression-era Arkansas.There she is shunted between her

  grandmother’s house and her mother’s – where she is raped – and

  withdraws into total silence. She endures to share her realization in

  her valedictory address: "In order to lift your voice, you have to lift your head."

 

 

 

  The Handmaid’s Tale

  Atwood, Margaret

  Fiction At96h

  In the futuristic world of Gilead, a feisty heroine chronicles her rebellion

  against a repressive, antiwoman society.

 

 

 

 

  Valley of Horses

  Auel, Jean

  Fiction Au31v

  In the sequel to The Clan of the Cave Bear, Ayla spends three years of

  solitude in a cave, but she eventually meets Jondalar and nurses him back

  to health after her pet lion attacks him and kills his brother.

 

 

 

  Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

  Blume, Judy

  Fiction B625a 1991

  Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a

  twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.

 

 

 

 

  Blubber

  Blume, Judy

  Fiction B635b

  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.

 

 

 

 

  Tiger Eyes

  Blume, Judy

  Fiction B6251ti

  Resettled in the "Bomb City" with her mother and brother, Davey Wexler

  recovers from the shock of her father’s death during a holdup of his 7-Eleven

  store in Atlantic City.

 

 

 

  The Goats

  Cole, Brock

  Fiction C6744g 1992

  Stripped and marooned on a small island by their fellow campers, a boy

  and a girl form an uneasy bond that grows into a deep friendship when

  they decide to run away and disappear without a trace.

 

 

 

  My Brother Sam is Dead

  Collier, James Lincoln, and Christopher Collier

  Fiction C691m

  Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution

  when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to

  stay neutral in a Tory town.

 

 

 

  The Chocolate War

  Cormier Robert

  Fiction C813c

  A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing

  to join in the school’s annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of

  the school bullies.

 

 

 

  Athletic Shorts

  Crutcher, Chris

  Fiction C889a 1992

  A collection of short stories featuring characters from earlier books by

  Chris Crutcher.

 

 

 

 

  Face on the Milk Carton

  Cooney, Caroline B.

  Fiction C783f  1994

  A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search

  for her real identity.

 

 

 

 

  James and the Giant Peach

  Dahl, Roald

  Fiction D137j 1961

  A young boy escapes from two wicked aunts and embarks on a series of

  adventures with six giant insects he meets inside a giant peach.

 

 

 

 

  Pillars of the Earth

  Follett, Ken

  Fiction F721pi 1990

  A mystifying puzzle involving the execution of an innocent man is interwoven

  into this monumental masterpiece of medieval intrigue and ingenuity; romance

  and rivalry; architecture and archbishops.

 

 

 

  Annie On My Mind

  Garden, Nancy

  Fiction G167a

  Liza doesn't realize at first that her feelings for Annie are more than friendly.

  Annie has accepted her own lesbianism, but Liza has not. When Liza’s and

  Annie’s romantic relationship is discovered and exposed by a school teacher,

  Liza rebels and rejects Annie. However, later Liza accepts that she really

  does love Annie.

 

 

  Julie of the Wolves

  George, Jean Craighead

  Fiction G2932c

  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.

 

 

 

  Lord of the Flies

  Golding, William

  Fiction G51l  1954

  The classic study of human nature which depicts the degeneration of a

  group of schoolboys marooned on a desert island.

 

 

 

 

  Summer of My German Soldier

  Greene, Bette

  Fiction G8313s

  Sheltering an escaped German prisoner of war is the beginning of some

  shattering experiences for a 12-year-old Jewish girl in Arkansas.

 

 

 

 

  Where’s Waldo?

  Hanford, Martin

  973.923 J63wdal

  The reader is invited to find Waldo in the detailed illustrations of several

  crowded Hollywood movie sets.

 

 

 

  The Outsiders

  Hinton, S.E.

  Fiction H5971o 1967

  The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent’s death

  and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent

  society.

 

 

 

  Final Exit: the Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide

  for the Dying

  Humphrey, Derek

  179.7 H889f

 

 

 

 

   Brave New World 

   Huxley, Aldous

   Fiction H982b

   The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932,

   presents Aldous Huxley’s vision of the future-of a world utterly transformed.

   Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are

   genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the

   ruling class.

 

 

     The Bermudez Triangle

     Johnson, Maureen

     Fiction J635b 

     The friendship of three high school girls and their relationships with their friends

     and families are tested when two of them fall in love with each other.

 

 

 

 

Flowers for Algernon

     Keyes, Daniel

     Fiction K521f

     A thirty-two-year-old mentally handicapped man takes part in an innovative

     scientific experiment to raise his intelligence.

 

 

 

 

 

   Cujo

   King, Stephen

   Fiction K5872cu 1981

   A family's two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard is transformed by rabies and

   the insidious guidance of demonic forces into a terrifying monster.

 

 

 

 

   The Dead Zone

   King, Stephen

   Fiction K5872d

   After four and a half years in a coma, Johnny Smith awakens with a

   knowledge of the death zone and an ability to see the future, a horrible power

   that he does not want and cannot escape.

 

 

 

     The Arizona Kid

     Koertge, Ron

     Fiction K8193a 2005 

     Sixteen-year-old Billy comes to terms with his own values when he is sent

     to live with his gay uncle in Tucson and is introduced to the world of rodeos

     where he falls in love with an outspoken racehorse rider named Cara.

 

 

 

  A Wrinkle in Time

  L’Engle, Madeline

  Fiction L545wr1973

  On a dark and stormy night, Meg and her brother Charles were upset by

  the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.

 

 

 

 

  To Kill A Mockingbird

  Lee, Harper

  Fiction L512t

  The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl

  whose father defends a black man accused of rape.

 

 

 

 

  The Giver 

  Lowry, Lois

  Fiction L9553g

 

  Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes

  the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and

  discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.

 

 

 

 

  Beloved

  Morrison, Toni

  Fiction M8345B1988

  Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio, risked death in

  order to wrench herself from a living death. She has lost a husband and

  buried a child, borne the unthinkable and not gone mad. Sethe lives in

  a small house on the edge of town with her daughter, Denver, her

  mother-in-law, Baby Suggs, and a disturbing, mesmerizing intruder who calls herself Beloved.

 

 

  The Bluest Eye

  Morrison, Toni

  Fiction M8345bl

  Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, an African American girl in an America

  whose love for blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all others, prays for

  her eyes to turn blue, so that she will be beautiful, people will notice her, and

  her world will be different.

 

 

 

  Fallen Angels

  Myers, Walter Dean

  Fiction M9924f1988

  Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists

  in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active

  duty in Vietnam.

 

 

 

  The Catcher in the Rye

  Salinger, J.D.

  Fiction Sa33c

  In an effort to escape the hypocrisies of life at his boarding school,

  sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield seeks refuge in New York City.

 

 

 

 

  Bridge to Terabithia

  Paterson, Katherine

  Fiction P2733b

  The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes

  friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying

  to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.

 

 

 

  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

  Rowling, J.K.

  Fiction R797h1998

  Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young

  boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School

  for Wizards and Witches.

  See also

  Harry Potter à l’école des sorciers (Fiction R797h:F)

 

 

  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  Rowling, J.K.

  Fiction R797hc

  When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogswart

  School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry

  Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once

  more been released on the school.

  See also

  Harry Potter et la chambre des secrets (Fiction R797hc:F)

  Harry Potter und die Kammer des Schreckens (Fiction R797hc:G)

 

 

 

  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  Rowling, J.K.

  Fiction R797hp

  During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry,

  Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible

  for his parents’ deaths.

  See also 

  Harry Potter et le prisonnier D’Azkaban (Fiction R797hp:F 2000)

  Harry Potter und der Gefangene von Askaban (Fiction R797hp:G 2000)

 

 

 

  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  Rowling, J.K.

  Fiction R797hg

  Fourteen-year-old Harry Potter joins the Weasleys at the Quidditch World

  Cup, then enters his fourth year at Hogwarts Academy where he is

  mysteriously entered in an unusual contest that challenges his wizarding

  skills, friendships and character, amid signs that an old enemy is growing

  stronger.

See also 

Harry Potter et la coupe de feu  (Fiction R797hg :F)

Harry Potter und der Feuerkelch  (Fiction R797hg:G)

Harry Potter y el cáliz de fuego  (Fiction R797hg:SP)

 

 

  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  Rowling, J.K.

  Fiction R797ho

  When the government of the magic world and authorities at Hogwarts

  School of Witchcraft and Wizardry refuse to believe in the growing threat

  of a freshly revived Lord Voldemort, fifteen-year-old Harry Potter finds

  support from his loyal friends in facing the evil wizard and other new terrors.

  See also

  Harry Potter et l’ordre du phénix  (Fiction R797ho :F)

  Harry Potter und der Orden des Phónix (Fiction R797ho:G)

  Harry Potter : y la orden del Fénix (Fiction R797ho:SP 2004)

 

 

  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

  Rowling, J.K.

  Fiction R797hh

  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince brings us Harry Potter’s sixth year

  at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as Lord Voldemort becomes

  ever more powerful with his followers increasing day by day in this continuing

  battle between good and evil. Harry searches for the full and complex story

  of the boy who became Lord Voldemort, and thereby finds what may be his only vulnerability.

  See also 

  Harry Potter und der Halbblutprinz (Fiction R797hh:G)

 

 

 

  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  Rowling, J.K.

  Fiction R797hd

  Burdened with the dark, dangerous, and seemingly impossible task of

  locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes, Harry, feeling

  alone and uncertain about his future, struggles to find the inner strength

  he needs to follow the path set out before him.

 

 

 

  Of Mice and Men

  Stienbeck, John

  Fiction St346o 1937a

  Tells a story about the strange relationship of two migrant workers, who

  are able to realize their dreams of an easy life until one of them succumbs

  to his weakness for soft, helpless creatures and strangles the farmer’s wife.

 

 

 

  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  Twain, Mark

  Fiction C59ah1997

  The adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the

  Mississippi River on a raft.

 

 

 

 

 

  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

  Twain, Mark

  Fiction C59ad 1997

  The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up

  in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.

 

 

 

 

  Slaughterhouse-Five

  Vonnegut, Kurt

  Fiction V89sl

  A fourth-generation German-American now living in easy circumstances

  on Cape Cod (and smoking too much), who, as an American infantry scout

  hors de combat, as a prisoner of war, witnessed the fire-bombing of

  Dresden, Germany, "the Florence of the Elbe," a long time ago, and survived

  to tell the tale.

 

 

 

  The Color Purple

  Walker, Alice

  Fiction W1521c

  Two African American sisters, one a missionary in Africa and the other a

  child-wife living in the South, support each other through their

  correspondence, beginning in the 1920s.

 

 

 

  Native Son

  Wright, Richard

  Fiction W935n 1966

  Traces the fall of a young black man in 1930s Chicago as his life loses all

  hope of redemption after he kills a white woman.

 

 

 

 

  The Pigman

  Zindel, Paul

  Fiction Z66P

  A teenage boy and girl, high school sophomores from unhappy homes,

  tell of their bizarre relationship with an old man.