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My Favourite Banned/Challenged Book: In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak

Thursday Thirteen: 13 Banned Books I've Read

In honour of Banned Books Week, here's a list of thirteen books I've read over my lifetime which have, at some point, been challenged or banned from classrooms and/or school libraries:

  1.  Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  2.  Animal Farm by George Orwell
  3.  1984 by George Orwell
  4.  Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
  5.  Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  6.  Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
  7.  Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
  8.  A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle
  9.  The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  10.  Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  11.  Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
  12.  The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
  13.  Speakby Laurie Halse Anderson

Lists of Frequently Challenged Books can be found here. Check it out! You may be surprised by some of the books on those lists - I know I was!

 

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