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
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"The Catcher in the Rye" has been challenged and removed from school reading lists many times since its publication in 1951 due to concerns of profanity, obscenity, and the fact that some felt the plot is " centered around negative activity ." The earliest instance of the book being banned was 1960, when a teacher in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was fired for assigning the book to an 11th grade English class. The teacher was hired back after an appeal, but the book remained banned. The book's place on Missoula, Montana, high school's list was challenged in 2009, but it was allowed to stay on the curriculum. "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. Laura Sikes/AP
Parents have called "The Color Purple" "smut" and "X-rated" and cited concerns about its " troubling ideas about race relations, man's relationship to God, African history, and human sexuality ." It was banned in Souderton, Pennsylvania, Area School District in 1992 and removed from school libraries in Fairfax County and Newport News, Virginia. "Animal Farm" by George Orwell
"Animal Farm." Amazon
Bay County's Four middle schools in Bay County and three high schools in Panama City, Florida, banned "Animal Farm" in 1987, but the Bay County school board overturned the ban after 44 parents filed a suit with the district. "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
John Green reads a passage from "Looking for Alaska" in a vlog.