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Top ten most frequently challenged books of 2005

Out of 405 challenges reported to the Office for Intellectual Freedom

  1. It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health, by Robie H. Harris
    Reasons: homosexuality, nudity, sex education, religious viewpoint, abortion, and being unsuited to age group
  2. Forever, by Judy Blume
    Reasons: sexual content and offensive language
  3. The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger
    Reasons: sexual content, offensive language and being unsuited to age group
  4. The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier
    Reasons: sexual content and offensive language
  5. Whale Talk, by Chris Crutcher
    Reasons: racism and offensive language
  6. Detour for Emmy, by Marilyn Reynolds
    Reason: sexual content
  7. What My Mother Doesn’t Know, by Sonya Sones
    Reasons: sexual content and being unsuited to age group
  8. Captain Underpants (Series), by Dav Pilkey
    Reasons: anti-family content, being unsuited to age group and violence
  9. Crazy Lady!, by Jane Leslie Conly
    Reason: offensive language
  10. It’s So Amazing! A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families, by Robie H. Harris
    Reasons: sex education and sexual content