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[kittenspeaks]

In honor of Banned Books Week, the American Library Association is circulating a list of the 100 Most Challenged Books from 1990-2000.

The ones I have read: (I actually found it easier to copy the whole list and remove some instead of copying just the ones I read about 40 of them)
Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling (Have read One, Two, Part of Three and will listen to them all on tape eventually)
Forever by Judy Blume


Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Giver by Lois Lowry
It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine (Of the 60 some odd titles in this series I h)
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Sex by Madonna

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein

Blubber by Judy Blume
Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
Final Exit by Derek Humphry
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
Deenie by Judy Blume
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar

A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole
Cujo by Stephen King
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume


The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Native Son by Richard Wright
Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women’s Fantasies by Nancy Friday
Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen

Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
Carrie by Stephen King
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume

The Dead Zone by Stephen King
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
Private Parts by Howard Stern
Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
Sex Education by Jenny Davis
The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney

The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000

Comments

[wasabirabbit.livejournal.com]

I loved Judy Blume as a kid. Great books.

[vivid-horizon.livejournal.com]

I've actually read a good many of those... The Piers Anthony 'Incarnations of Immortality' Need to be included...

[blueinatl.livejournal.com]

Damn... some of those are AMAZING books... I LOVE "A Wrinkle In Time"... it inspired a poem that is published by a few... I need to have the balls to put that one up rather than just the ones I have (which you may relate to: http://blue.warped.com/pages/poetry.html)

[kittenspeaks.livejournal.com]

I can relate to several of those (very very nice BTW)
Which was the one inspired by Wrinkle?

Oh, and since people are making the Chronicles of Narnia a I the only one finding myself wishing they would make the Wrinkle Trilogy?

[blueinatl.livejournal.com]

The one inspired by Wrinkle isn't there... it is one I haven't put out there. I'll have to type it up for you. I only put things out there that have been published under my name, but that one I have kept to myself. I'll find it for ya'

JUST FOR YOU

[blueinatl.livejournal.com]

AND YET AVAIL TO EVERY ... OY... scary.

Below is my first published poem... it was published in 3 sources:.

"To Ride on a Pegasus"

To ride on a Pegasus is
Like walking on air
I know because I was there
Once, In a dream
The Swiftness, the whipping
The sound of the air
Rushing past your ears
Burning your senses
The soft steady light
The sound of the wings
The creature, with all its whiteness
Its personality, with all its brightness
Blinds you to all your thoughts
Except for one
I know because I was there
You rode a Pegasus
Whish is like Walking On Air

Re: JUST FOR YOU

[blueinatl.livejournal.com]

Crap... last line...

"Which is like Walking On Air"

Re: JUST FOR YOU

[kittenspeaks.livejournal.com]

I like it. But I have to say I like your later stuff better where you brokeout of rhyme and meter.

Thankyou for sharing it with me.
*hugs*
Hey, don't you still owe me a day/night of silliness or some such? :-)

Re: JUST FOR YOU

[blueinatl.livejournal.com]

The first one I wrote when I was 13... the other stuff that is published was written between 18 and 23. I haven't written much since then. Like I said - there are 100s others not out there - and some of them I like better. I really should work to get the others as well.

I prefer the older stuff. Partly why I don't have the other one on my website...

Re: JUST FOR YOU

[blueinatl.livejournal.com]

Oh and for the other thing... yes, we will have to meet up at the Tavern or something some time. Good food there :-)