Banned in the U.S.A.
Subtitle: a reference guide to book censorship in schools and public libraries
By: Herbert N. Foerstel.
Publisher: Greenwood Press; ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
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 and (p. [221]-222) 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 -- 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  -- Voices of banned authors -- Judy Blume -- Daniel Cohen -- Robert Cormier -- Katherine Paterson -- Jan Slepian -- The most frequently banned books in the 1990s -- Impressions / Jack Booth et al. -- Of Mice and Men / John Steinbeck -- Catcher in the Rye / J.D. Salinger -- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) -- Chocolate War / Robert Cormier -- Scary Stories to tell in the Dark / Alvin Schwartz -- More Scary Stories to tell in the Dark / Alvin Schwartz -- Witches / Roald Dahl -- Daddy's Roommate / Michael Willhoite -- Curses, Hexes and Spells / Daniel Cohen -- A Wrinkle in Time / Madeleine L'Engle -- How to Eat Fried Worms / Thomas Rockwell -- Blubber / Judy Blume -- Revolting Rhymes / Roald Dahl -- Halloween ABC / Eve Merriam -- A Day No Pigs Would Die / Robert Newton Peck -- Heather Has Two Mommies / Leslea Newman -- Christine / Stephen King -- -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings / Maya Angelou -- Fallen Angels / Walter Myers -- New Teenage Body Book / Kathy McCoy & Charles Wibbelsman -- Little Red Riding Hood / Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm -- Headless Cupid / Zilpha Snyder -- Night Chills / Dean Koontz -- Lord of the Flies / William Golding -- A Separate Peace / John Knowles -- Slaughterhouse-Five / Kurt Vonnegut -- Color Purple / Alice Walker -- James and the Giant Peach / Roald Dahl -- Learning Tree / Gordon Parks -- Witches of Worm / Zilpha Snyder -- My Brother Sam Is Dead / James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier -- Grapes of Wrath / John Steinbeck -- Cujo / Stephen King -- Great Gilly Hopkins / Katherine Paterson -- Figure in the Shadows / John Bellairs -- On My Honor / Marion Dane Bauer -- In the Night Kitchen / Maurice Sendak -- Grendel / John Champlin Gardner -- I Have To Go / Robert Munsch -- Annie On My Mind / Nancy Garden -- Adventures of Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain -- Pigman / Paul Zindel -- My house / Nikki Giovanni -- Then Again, Maybe I Won’t / Judy Blume -- Handmaid's Tale / Margaret Atwood -- Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts : the Story of the Halloween Symbols / Edna Barth -- One Hundred Years Of Solitude -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Scary Stories 3 : More Tales to Chill Your Bones / Alvin Schwartz -- Appendix A : PAW’s most frequently challenged books of 1991-1992 -- Appendix B : PAW’s most frequently challenged books of 1982-1992 -- Appendix C : PAW’s most frequently challenged materials, 1982-1992 -- Appendix D : PAW’s most frequently challenged authors of 1982-1992 -- Appendix D : PAW’s states with the most challenges, 1982-1992.