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Chapter 1: A Survey of Major Bookbanning Incidents Kanawha County: West-By God-Virginia Godless Textbooks in Washington County, Virginia Island Trees v. Pico: A First Amendment Victory Conflict and Compromise in Prince George's County Hawkins County, Tennessee: My Way or the Highway Graves County: Kentucky-Fried Faulkner Panama City, Florida: Darkness in the Sunshine State Blasphemy in Cheshire, Connecticut Impressions: The Textbook That Brought Paganism to California Public Schools Nappy Hair: It Took a Book to Lose a Teacher Black and Banned: Books by African Women Cause a Furor in Maryland Chapter 2: The Law on Bookbanning Background Appropriate Means and Legitimate Purposes The Right to Receive Ideas Secularism and Sex: The Twin Threats to America Hazelwood: A Chill Wind for the 1990s Improving on the First Amendment: States Seek Remedies to Hazelwood Restraints Positive Impressions: Courts and Schools Find Common Ground Legislative Attacks on the Internet: Implications for Bookbanning in Schools and Libraries Hit Man: The Courts Say the Book Made Him Do It Chapter 3: Voices of Banned Authors Judy Blume Daniel Cohen Robert Cormier David Guterson Leslea Newman Katherine Paterson Jan Slepian Chapter 4: The Most Frequently Banned or Challenged Books, 1996-2000 The Harry Potter Books, by J.K. Rowling The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier It's Perfectly Normal: A Book about Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health, by Robie H. Harris The Color Purple, by Alice Walker My Brother Sam Is Dead, by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa, by Mark Mathabane The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger Daddy's Roommate, by Michael Willhoite The House of Spirits, by Isabel Allende Native Son, by Richard Wright Fallen Angels, by Walter Myers Beloved, by Toni Morrison Goosebumps Series, by R.L. Stine Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson We All Fall Down, by Robert Cormier Go Ask Alice, by Anonymous Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee Iceman, by Chris Lynch The Alice Series, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley One Fat Summer, by Robert Lipsyte Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A., by Luis A. Rodriguez Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut The Joy of Gay Sex/The New Joy of Gay Sex, by Charles Silverstein Forever, by Judy Blume Heather Has Two Mommies, by Lesl6a Newman Two Teenagers in Twenty: Writings by Gay and Lesbian Youth, edited by Ann Heron The Drowning of Stephen Jones, by Bette Greene Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women's Sexual Fantasies, by Nancy Friday The Giver, by Lois Lowry The Witches, by Roald Dahl Blubber, by Judy Blume A Day No Pigs Would Die, by Robert Newton Peck Ordinary People, by Judith Guest Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George Jack, by A.M. Homes Being There, by Jerzy Kosinski Captain Underpants Series, by Dav Pilkey Fool's Crow, James Welch Cujo, by Stephen King A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle Crazy Lady, by Jane Leslie Conly Black Boy, by Richard Wright Appendixes A(1). Office for Intellectual Freedom: The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000 A(2). OIF Censorship Database 1990-2000: Initiator of Challenge (Chart) A(3). OIF Censorship Database 1990-2000: Institution Being Challenged (Chart) A(4). OIF Censorship Database 1990-2000: Challenges by Type (Chart) A(5). OIF Censorship Database 1990-2000: Challenges by Year (Chart) B. Office for Intellectual Freedom: The Most Frequently Challenged Books and Authors of 2000