today begins banned book week

Celebrate your freedom to read.

The top 10 most frequently challenged books of 2011

1) ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series), by Lauren Myracle – offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group

2) The Colour of Earth (series), by Kim Dong Hwa – nudity, sex education, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group

3) The Hunger Games trilogy, by Suzanne Collins – 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 – nudity, sex education, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group

5) The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie – offensive language, racism, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group

6) Alice (series), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor – nudity, offensive language, religious viewpoint

7) Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley – insensitivity, nudity, racism, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit

8) What My Mother Doesn’t Know, by Sonya Sones – nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit

9) Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily Von Ziegesar – drugs, offensive language, sexually explicit

10) To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee – offensive language, racism