Title: 7 Reasons Your Favorite Books Were Banned | HuffPost
Headings: 7 Reasons Your Favorite Books Were Banned
7 Reasons Your Favorite Books Were Banned
Maddie Crum
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Content: You know who else used those words? Henry Miller and Mark Twain, respectively. Yes, vulgar language popping up in an academic setting can be jarring. But when a writer is discussing weighty topics, like the troubling state of schools on Indian reservations, jarring is a suitable approach. Sexually explicit
According to the ALA, this is the No. 1 reason for banning books in the past decade. Margaret Atwood’s “A Handmaid’s Tale” was challenged by a North Carolina high school for being “sexually explicit,” because clearly high school students are mature enough for sex ed, but not for feminist literature. Ironically, the book discusses the issues with censorship. Homosexuality
“And Tango Makes Three” is an illustrated children’s book in which a zookeeper witnesses two male penguins performing mating rituals and gives the pair an egg to hatch. The result is Tango, a female chick.