Banned Books

Here is the American Library Association's list of top 10 most frequently challenged books of 2008, their author and the cited reasons:

_"And Tango Makes Three," by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell. Reasons: anti-ethnic, anti-family, homosexuality, religious viewpoint, and unsuited to age group.

_"His Dark Materials trilogy," by Philip Pullman. Reasons: political viewpoint, religious viewpoint, and violence.

_"TTYL" (series), by Lauren Myracle. Reasons: offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group.

_"Scary Stories" (series), by Alvin Schwartz. Reasons: occult/Satanism, religious viewpoint, and violence.

_"Bless Me, Ultima," by Rudolfo Anaya. Reasons: occult/Satanism, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit, and violence.

_"The Perks of Being a Wallflower," by Stephen Chbosky. Reasons: drugs, homosexuality, nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit, suicide, and unsuited to age group.

_"Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily von Ziegesar. Reasons: offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group.

_"Uncle Bobby's Wedding," by Sarah S. Brannen. Reasons: homosexuality and unsuited to age group.

_"The Kite Runner," by Khaled Hosseini. Reasons: offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group.

_"Flashcards of My Life," by Charise Mericle Harper. Reasons: sexually explicit and unsuited to age group.

I have read "The Kite Runner", "Uncle Bobby's Wedding", "Flashcards of My Life", "The Perks of being a Wallflower", and "And Tango Makes Three" so half of them. Don't quite know what that says about me - I loved "The Kite Runner" and the others were good. Wonder if that makes me a liker of those things banned or a liker of sexually explicit books or dunno.......maybe just have eclectic tastes.