Title: Books That Have Been Banned in Schools
Headings: 10 books that have been banned in schools
10 books that have been banned in schools
Talia Lakritz
The "Harry Potter" book series was recently removed from a school library in Nashville, Tennessee.
The "Harry Potter" series by J.K. Rowling
Fans pick up their new copies of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" in 2007.
"To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain
"Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
"Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher
"The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
"The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger
"The Color Purple" by Alice Walker
Author Alice Walker and Robert Allen look at a copy of "The Color Purple" at screening of the film adaptation of the book in 1986.
"Animal Farm" by George Orwell
"Animal Farm."
"Looking for Alaska" by John Green
John Green reads a passage from "Looking for Alaska" in a vlog.
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Content: "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
Copies of "To Kill A Mockingbird." Tim Boyle/Getty Images
"To Kill A Mockingbird" has been challenged, removed from curricula, and banned in schools across the US due to its use of the N-word and other racial epithets that promote " racial hatred, racial division, [and] racial separation" as well as " adult themes such as sexual intercourse, rape, and incest " as Brentwood Middle School in Tennessee put it in 2006. Michael Cary, director of curriculum and instruction at Duluth Public Schools in Minnesota , told the Duluth News Tribune that, " We felt that we could still teach the same standards and expectations through other novels that didn't require students to feel humiliated or marginalized by the use of racial slurs." It was also one of the 10 most challenged books in schools in 2017 . "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain
"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Ted S. Warren/AP
Like "To Kill A Mockingbird," the book's language and depiction of African Americans has been controversial in schools. Bans on the book date back to one year after it was published, when it was called "trash and suitable only for the slums" in 1885. "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
"Of Mice and Men." Amazon
"Of Mice and Men" was banned from use in classrooms at Skyline High School in Scottsboro, Alabama, in 1983 and in George County, Mississippi schools in 2002 because of the book's "profanity." "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher
"Thirteen Reasons Why."