Find Most Challenged Books In Radnor Library
"The Hunger Games" is amongst the most challenged books.
The American Library Association (ALA) has released its annual list of the most frequently challenged library books of the year.
During the past year, the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom received 326 reports of “attempts to remove or restrict materials from school curricula and library bookshelves,” according to the ALA.
Many of the ten most frequently challenged books of 2011 can be found at the Radnor Memorial Library, including Alice, Gossip Girl and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.
No books have been challenged in the three years that Kathy Mulroy has been director at Radnor Library. There is a process in place for challenges.
Mulroy said that people have informally questioned DVDs that include the "director's cut.” Director's cuts are usually more raw and include material that does not make it into the theatrical release, she said.
10 Most Frequently Challenged Library Books of 2011
1) ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series) by Lauren Myracle
Reasons: Offensive language; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
2) The Color of Earth (series) by Kim Dong Hwa
Reasons: Nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
3) The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
Reasons: Anti-ethnic; anti-family; insensitivity; offensive language; occult/satanic; violence
4) My Mom’s Having A Baby! A Kid’s Month-by-Month Guide to Pregnancy, by Dori Hillestad Butler
Reasons: Nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
5) The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Reasons: Offensive language; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
6) Alice (series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Reasons: Nudity; offensive language; religious viewpoint
7) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Reasons: Insensitivity; nudity; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit
8) What My Mother Doesn’t Know by Sonya Sones
Reasons: Nudity; offensive language; sexually explicit
9) Gossip Girl (series) by Cecily Von Ziegesar
Reasons: Drugs; offensive language; sexually explicit
10) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Reasons: Offensive language; racism
Nate Adams
7:42 pm on Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Can someone clue me in as to what that first book on this list is about?
Bill Nut
8:39 pm on Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Its a book written in text-like manner about 3 girls going through junior high I belive. It isn't that bad, Ive read almost all of these, and they are not all that bad. Several of them are things they read in school!
Peter V. Newman
8:39 pm on Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird" is on this list? Who could possibly object to this classic American novel? I read it in 7th grade. My mother took my brother and I to see the film when it came out in the 60's. If someone objects to this book then I object to them.
Sam Strike
8:46 pm on Wednesday, April 11, 2012
It happens to be my favorite book. Yes, there are things I find disturbing in it, but there's something about it that brings me back time and time again. If certain language in a book, which was accepted at the time it was written, later becomes offensive, do you not allow people to read it anymore? Curious what you all think...
Carl Rosin
8:39 pm on Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Have books been challenged at RML?
Sam Strike
8:44 pm on Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Not in the past three years, according to Kathy Mulroy.
Bill Nut
10:12 pm on Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Radnor, surprisingly, has no banned books. Some of the books they simply dont have.
Anthony Wayne
2:54 pm on Monday, April 16, 2012
“Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen": "Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people." Was but one of the comments made following the April 10, 1933 nazi organized book burning led by Joseph Goebbles. A crowd of 40,000 students sang and danced in celebration at the "cleansing".