Banned in the U.S.A.
Subtitle: a reference guide to book censorship in schools and public libraries
By: Herbert N. Foerstel.
Edition: Rev. and expanded ed.
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Censorship -- United States.; Textbooks -- Censorship -- United States.; Public libraries -- Censorship -- United States.; Public schools -- Censorship -- United States.; Book selection -- United States.; Public libraries -- Book selection -- United States.
Other titles: Banned in the USA
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-282) and index.
Table of contents: title: A survey of major bookbanning incidents. Kanawha County : West-By God-Virginia -- Godless textbooks in Washington County, Virginia -- Island Trees v. Pico : a first amendment victory -- Conflict and compromise in Prince George's County -- Hawkins County, Tennessee : my way or the highway -- Graves County : Kentucky-fried Faulkner -- Panama City, Florida : darkness in the sunshine state -- Blasphemy in Cheshire, Connecticut -- Impressions : the textbook that brought paganism to California public schools -- Nappy Hair : it took a book to lose a teacher -- Black and banned : books by African Women cause a furor in Maryland -- The law on bookbanning. Background -- Appropriate means and legitimate purposes -- The right to receive ideas -- Secularism and sex : the twin threats to America -- Hazelwood : a chill wind for the 1990s -- Improving on the First Amendment : states seek remedies to Hazelwood restraints -- Positive impressions : courts and schools find common ground -- legislative attacks on the internet : implications for bookbanning in schools and libraries -- Hit man : the courts say the book made him do it -- Voices of banned authors -- Judy Blume -- Daniel Cohen -- Robert Cormier -- David Guterson -- Leslea Newman -- Katherine Paterson -- Jan Slepian -- The most frequently banned or challenged books : 1996-2000 -- Harry Potter Books / J.K. Rowling -- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings / Maya Angelou -- Of Mice and Men / John Steinbeck -- Chocolate War / Robert Cormier -- It's Perfectly Normal : A Book about Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health / Robie H. Harris -- Color Purple / Alice Walker -- My Brother Sam Is Dead / James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier -- Kaffir Boy : The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa / Mark Mathabane -- Catcher in the Rye / J.D. Salinger -- Daddy's Roommate / Michael Willhoite -- House of Spirits / Isabel Allende -- Native Son / Richard Wright -- Fallen Angels / Walter Myers -- Beloved / Toni Morrison -- Goosebumps Series / R.L. Stine -- Snow Falling on Cedars / David Guterson -- We All Fall Down / Robert Cormier -- Go Ask Alice / Anonymous -- Bless Me, Ultima / Rudolfo Anaya -- Handmaid's Tale / Margaret Atwood -- Bluest Eye / Toni Morrison -- Flowers for Algernon / Daniel Keyes -- To Kill a Mockingbird / Harper Lee -- Iceman / Chris Lynch -- Alice Series / Phyllis Reynolds Naylor -- Brave New World / Aldous Huxley -- One Fat Summer / Robert Lipsyte -- Always Running : La Vida Loca : Gang Days in L.A. / Luis A. Rodriguez -- Slaughterhouse-Five / Kurt Vonnegut -- Joy of Gay Sex/The New Joy of Gay Sex / Charles Silverstein -- Forever / Judy Blume -- Heather Has Two Mommies / Leslea Newman -- Two Teenagers in Twenty : Writings by Gay and Lesbian Youth / Ann Heron -- Drowning of Stephen Jones / Bette Greene -- Women on Top : How Real Life Has Changed Women's Sexual Fantasies / Nancy Friday -- Giver / Lois Lowry -- Witches / Roald Dahl -- Blubber / Judy Blume -- A Day No Pigs Would Die / Robert Newton Peck -- Ordinary People / Judith Guest -- Julie of the Wolves / Jean Craighead George -- Jack / A.M. Homes -- Being There / Jerzy Kosinski -- Captain Underpants Series / Dav Pilkey -- Fool's Crow / James Welch -- Cujo / Stephen King -- A Wrinkle in Time / Madeleine L'Engle -- Crazy Lady / Jane Leslie Conly -- Black Boy / Richard Wright -- Appendix A (1). Office for Intellectual Freedom : the 100 most frequently challenged books of 1990-2000 -- Appendix A (2). OIF censorship database 1990-2000: initiator of challenge (chart) -- Appendix A (3). OIF censorship database 1990-2000: institution being challenged (chart) -- Appendix A (4). OIF censorship database 1990-2000: challenges by type (chart) -- Appendix A (5). OIF censorship database 1990-2000: challenges by year (chart) -- Appendix B. Office for Intellectual Freedom : the most frequently challenged books and authors of 2000.