Since this is our YA blog, I thought I'd salute Banned Books Week with a list of YA books that have been banned or challenged in the past 10 year (I pulled these titles off of ALA's lists of most challenged books by year). I've read quite a few of them, but seeing them on the lists makes me want to go out and read more of them. How about you? How many have you read? Go celebrate Banned Books Week. Read a book.
1. His Dark Materials trilogy, by Philip Pullman
2. TTYL; TTFN; L8R, G8R (series), by Lauren Myracle
3. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
4. The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
6. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
7. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
8. It’s Perfectly Normal, by Robie Harris
9. Alice (series), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
10. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, by Carolyn Mackler
11. The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
12. Forever, by Judy Blume
13. Harry Potter (series), by J.K. Rowling
14. Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
15. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred D. Taylor
16. Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George
17. Summer of My German Soldier, by Bette Greene
