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azurelunatic) wrote2002-09-14 09:33 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2002-09-14 09:33 pm
From the Top 100 Banned Books...
I've read:
That's a lot of books. Most of them are excellent.
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
- the Harry Potter series, by JK Rowling
- Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
- The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
- A Day No Pigs Would Die, Robert Newton Peck
- the Earth's Children series, Jean M. Auel (I can see why many mommies wouldn't want their innocent 12 year old girls getting their hands on this series like the Ginger, Galadriel, Gaia, and I did)
- The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson
- A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle (the yo-yo kids freaked me out)
- In The Night Kitchen, Maurice Sendak
- The Stupids series, Harry Allard
- The Witches, Roald Dahl
- Anastasia Krupnik series, Lois Lowry
- Killing Mr. Griffin, Lois Duncan (damn, and I wouldn't have thought of that if I'd been asked to name every book I'd ever read -- but there you go!)
- The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
- Julie of the Wolves, Jean Craighead George
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (I laughed my head off at the moment with the dinner bell... no one else thought it was funny)
- Beloved, Toni Morrison
- Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
- Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat, Alvin Schwartz (again, wouldn't have named this off the top of my head, but it was at the WVHS library, and looked interesting... winter, and Shawn was around somewhere...)
- A Light in the Attic, Shel Silverstein (I swear, all the classrooms had this at Pearl Creek)
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley (THAT's the title! Some guy and I were talking about that the other day.)
- James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl (Mrs. Hall read this aloud to us, or was that Mrs. Banks?)
- Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret, Judy Blume (I was reading this one in "the pit" when FatherSir got gasoline in his eyes)
- I *may* have read The Face on the Milk Carton, Caroline Cooney
- Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut, one of my all-time favorite authors
- Lord of the Flies, William Golding
- Carrie, Stephen King
- On My Honor, Marion Dane Bauer (I'm sure I read it in 4th or 5th grade when I should have been doing something else, but can't remember jack)
- Mommy Laid An Egg, Babette Cole (Guide-Dog Aunt has it, and it's hysterical!)
- The Dead Zone, Stephen King
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
- Where's Waldo?, Martin Hanford (We had a kid at our school, James Waldo, who got called by his last name. He hated it.)
- Summer of my German Soldier, Bette Green
- How to Eat Fried Worms, Thomas Rockwell
- View from the Cherry Tree, Willo Davis Roberts (one of my all-time favorite authors; I wished I had telekinesis like that one girl.)
- The Headless Cupid, Zilpha Keatley Snyder (another favorite author.)
That's a lot of books. Most of them are excellent.
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the ones by Mark Twain prove the people who ban books don't read 'em first - those are some pretty damn good anti-slavery books, along with being damned good books.
and they banned Shel Silverstein? darn, they must be squeamish! Do they think little kids don't like bugs and mud and icky things?
amazing - I think I've read almost all of that list. :-) does that explain how we ended up interesting people?
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