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The 10 Most Frequently Challenged Library Books of 2011 from the US - you can check out the full list from the ALA here.

  • ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series) by Lauren Myracle (Reasons: Offensive language; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group)
  • The Color of Earth (series) by Kim Dong Hwa (Reasons: Nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group)
  • The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins (Reasons: Anti-ethnic; anti-family; insensitivity; offensive language; occult/satanic; violence)
  • My Mom’s Having A Baby! A Kid’s Month-by-Month Guide to Pregnancy, by Dori Hillestad Butler (Reasons: Nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group)
  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (Reasons: Offensive language; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group)
  • Alice (series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Reasons: Nudity; offensive language; religious viewpoint)
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Reasons: Insensitivity; nudity; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit)
  • What My Mother Doesn’t Know by Sonya Sones (Reasons: Nudity; offensive language; sexually explicit)
  • Gossip Girl (series) by Cecily Von Ziegesar (Reasons: Drugs; offensive language; sexually explicit)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Reasons: Offensive language; racism)