This is a guide to inform you on the top 50 most frequently challenged books of 1990 to 2000.  The book list is quite disturbing when you read some of the titles that have been challenged.  Not only have some of these books been challenged some if not most have been banned from public schools. 

"It's not just the books under fire now that worry me.  It is the book that will never be written.  The books that will never be read.  And all due to the fear of censorship.  As always, young readers will be the real losers." -- Judy Blume

1. Scary Stores (series) by:  Alvin Schwartz
2. Daddy's Roomate by:  michael Willhoite
3. I know Why the Caged Bird Sings by:  Maya Angelou
4. The chocolate War by:  Robert Cormier
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by:  Mark Twain
6. Of Mice and Men by:  John Steinbeck
7. Harry Potter (series) by:  J.K. Rowling
8. Forever by:  Judy Blume
9. Bridge to Terabithia by:  Katerine Paterson
10. Alice (series) by:  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
11. Heather Has Two Mommies by:  Leslea Newman
12. My Brother Sam is Dead by:  James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
13. The Catcher in the Rye by:  J.D. Salinger
14. The Giver by:  Lois Lowry
15. It's Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
16. Goosbumps (series) by:  R.L. Stine
17. A Day No Pigs Would Die by:  Robert Newton Peck
18. The Color Purple by:  Alice Walker
19. Sex by:  Modanna
20. Earth's Children (series) By Jean M. Auel
21. The Great Gilly Hopkins by:  Katherine Paterson
22. A Wrinkle in Time by:  Madeleine L'Engle
23. Go Ask Alice by:  Anonymous
24. Fallen Angels by:  Walter Dean Myers
25. In the Night Kitchen by:  Maurice Sendak
26. The Stupids (series) by:  Harry Allard
27. The Witches by:  Roald Dahl
28. The New Joy of Gay Sex by:  Charles Silverstein
29. Anastasi Krupnik (series) by:  Lois Lowry
30. The Goats by:  Brock Cole
31. Kaffir Boy by:  Mark Mathabane
32. Blubber by:  Judy Blume
33. Killing Mr. Griffin by:  Lois Duncan
34. Hallaween ABC by:  Eve Merriam
35. We All Fall Down by:  Robert Cormier
36. Final Exit by:  Derek Humphry
37. The Handmaid's Tale by:  Margaret Atwood
38. Jule of the Wolves by:  Jean Craighead George
39. The Bluest Eye by:  Toni Morrison
40. What's Happening to my Body?  Book for Girls:  A Growing up Guide for Parents & Daughters by:  Lynda Madaras
41. To Kill a Mockingbird by:  Harper Lee
42. Beloved by Toni Morrison
43. The Outsiders by:  S.E. Hinton
44. The Pigman by Paul Zindel
45. Bumps in the Night by: Harry Allard
46. Deenie by:  Judy Blume
47. Flowers for Algernon by:  Daniel Keyes
48. Annie on my Mind by:  Nancy Garden
49. The Boy Who Lost His Face by:  Louis Sachar
50. Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Had by:  Alvin Schwartz

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