Banned Books Week 2002

Let Freedom Read: Read a Banned Book

Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2002-2003

The St. Charles Public Library DOES NOT BAN these books or any others.

	Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowlings For its focus on wizardry and magic
	Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck For using offensive language and being unsuited to age group
	The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier For using offensive language and being unsuited to age group
	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou For sexual content, racism, offensive language, violence and being unsuited to age group
	Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene For racism, offensive language and being sexually explicit
	The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger For sexual content, offensive language and being unsuited to age group
	Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor For being sexually explicit, using offensive language and being unsuited to age group
	Go Ask Alice by Anonymous For being sexually explicit, for offensive language and drug use
	Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers For offensive language and being unsuited to age group
	Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause For being sexually explicit and unsuited to age group

Let Freedom Read: Read a Banned Book

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