to read all one hundred books on ala's frequently challenged book list

Apparently the Harry Potter series was added to the list since the last time I looked. I’ve read all of those books, and I recently finished The Pigman. 12% complete.

This book was banned in Liviona schools which is located in Michigan for scaring 1st Graders. First reaction, “It’s in the title people!” Other than I can see where some of the stories would scare first graders. But honestly I think if a teacher used discretion that they could use many of he stories in the book for class. There are some very fun ones that I recommended to my roommate who teaches 3rd grade. I even remember having to memorize “The Hearse Song” in 2nd grade myself. Final judgement = parental overreaction.

Next up is The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

I want to read these books to see what all the hullabaloo is about. I consider myself fairly middle of the road so I shall endeavor to give a fair assessment of each books relative controversial issues.

You can laugh and cry with this book. It’s awesome, even though you want Gilly to go back to Trotter and she can’t. I really liked it.

I loved this book when I was little and I still loved it. Who didn’t feel like this as a young woman worried about what everyone was thinking?

I’ve already read some of the books. My list so far includes:
Of Mice and Men
The Giver
The Color Purple
Flowers for Algernon
The Boy Who Lost His Face
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Lord of the Flies
Bless Me, Ultima
Song of Solomon

Good book. Maybe not for a younger child who would not get the moral and only see the violence.

Short but powerful. I wish I had read this in an English class so that we could have done an analysis.

I just started my list of “100 greatest books of the 20th century”, and it’s amazing how many of the same books are on this list.

www.listofbests.com already has a list of the ALA books, along with hundreds of other book lists. I decided to use that to track the books I read. I also decided that I would not make myself re-read all the books. Some of them I remember very well. Not that I can’t re-read them, but I don’t have to if I don’t want to.