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Top 10 Most Challenged Books in 1999

 

1. The Harry Potter series
by J.K. Rowling
 

"for focus on wizardry and magic"

See Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2000)

 

2. The Alice series
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

"for offensive language and being unsuited to age group"

See, Alice the brave (Aladdin ,1996)

3. The Chocolate War
by Robert Cormier

"for offensive language and being unsuited to age group"

 

4. Blubber
by Judy Blume

"for offensive language and being unsuited to age group"

5. Fallen Angels
by Walter Dean Myers

"for offensive language and being unsuited to age group"

6. Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck

"for offensive language and being unsuited to age group"

7. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou

"for being too explicit in the book's portrayal of rape and other sexual abuse"

8. The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood

"for sexual content"

9. The Color Purple
by Alice Walker

"for sexual content and offensive language"

10. Snow Falling on Cedars
by David Guterson

"for sexual content and offensive language"