Banned Books List
2006-2007
Alvarez, Julia. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.
Ancona, George. Cuban Kids.
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid’s Tale.
Baskin, Julia, Lindsey Newman, Sophie Pollitt-Cohen, & Courtney Toombs.
The Notebook Girls.
Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic.
Birdseye, Tom. Attack of the Mutant Underware.
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451.
Bradbury, Ray. The Veldt. (Short story based on Bradbury’s The Illustrated
Man.
Brown, Dan. The Da Vinci Code.
Burroughs, Augusten. Running with Scissors.
Chobsky, Stephen. The Perks of being a Wallflower.
Chevalier, Tracy. Girl with a Pearl Earring.
Chomsky, Noam, & Edward S. Herman. Manufacturing Consent: The
Political Economy of the Mass Media.
Chopin, Kate. The Awakening.
Christensen, James C., Renwick St. James, & Alan Dean Voyage of the
Basset.
Cormier, Robert. The Chocolate War.
Crutcher, Chris. Whale Talk.
de Haan, Linda & Stern Nijland. King & King.
Draper, Sharon M., & Adam Lowenbein. Romiette and Julio.
Eleveld, Mark, ed. The Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop & the
Poetry of a New Generation.
Fogelin, Adrian. My Brother’s Hero.
Frank, E.R. America.
Freedom Writers. The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150
Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them.
Gaines, Ernest J. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.
Going, K.L. Fat Kid Rules the World.
Gordon, Sharon. Cuba.
Gravett, Paul. Manga: 60 Years of Japanese Comics.
Gray, Heather M., & Samantha Phillips. Real Girl/Real World: Tools for
Finding Your True Self.
Green, Jonathon, comp. Cassell Dictionary of Slang.
Hedayat, Sadegh. The Blind Owl.
Hedges, Peter. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape.
Jukes, Mavis. The Guy Book: An Owner’s Manual.
Kehret, Peg. Abduction!
Langley, Andrew. 100 Greatest Tyrants.
LeGuin, Ursula K. A Fisherman of the Inland Sea.
Levitt, Steven D., & Stephen J. Dubner. Freakonomics: A Rouge Economist
Explores the Hidden Side of Everything.
Lowry, Lois. The Giver.
Mackler, Carolyn. Vegan Virgin Valentine.
Mathabane, Mark. Kaffir Boy.
McBain, Ed. Alice in Jeopardy.
Mitchell, Stephen. Gilgamesh: A New English Version.
Mochizuki, Ken. Baseball Saved Us.
Morgan, Melissa J. TTYL.
Morrison, Toni. Beloved.
Morrison, Tony. The Bluest Eye.
Myers, Walter Dean. Fallen Angels.
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Reluctantly Alice.
O’Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried.
Opie, Iona Archibald, & Peter Opie, eds. I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild’s
Pocket Book.
Park, Barbara. Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky, Peeky, Spying.
Parks, Gordon. The Learning Tree.
Paulsen, Gary. Zero to Sixty: The Motorcycle Journey of a Lifetime.
Peters, Lisa Westberg. Our family tree: An Evolution Story.
Pollan, Michael. The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s – Eye View of the World.
Richardson, Justin, and Peter Parnell. And Tango Makes Three.
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Half – Blood Prince.
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azakaban.
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
Ruby, Laura. Lily’s Ghosts.
Sanchez, Alex. Rainbow Boys.
Schreier, Alta. Vamos a Cuba (A Visit to Cuba).
Schwartz, Alvin. More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
Sebold, Alice. The Lovely Bones.
Sendak, Maurice. In the Night Kitchen.
Shafak, Elif. The Bastard of Istanbul.
Silverstein, Charles, and Edmund White. The Joy of Gay Sex.
Steer, Dugald. Wizardology: The Book of Secrets of Merlin.
Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men.
Thompson, Craig. Blankets.
Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clements) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse–Five.
Watkins, Yoko Kawashima. So Far from the Bamboo Grove.
Wood, Maryrose. Sex Kittens and Horn Dawgs Fall in Love.
Wright, Richard. Black Boy.