Challenged by a Brooklyn Center (Minn.) atheist, who claims its “lewd, indecent and violent contents…are hardly suitable for young students.”
by Arnold Adoff. Challenged at the Deer Ridge (Ind.) Elementary School because it could breed intolerance for hunters in children’s minds.
by Alice Walker. Challenged at the New Bern (N.C.) high school because the main character is raped by her stepfather.
by Monte Killingsworth. Challenged in the Rural Dell School District in Molalla (Ore.) because the book is “antilocal,” “logger-bashing” and has an unacceptable “ecological slant.”
by Jacob and Wilhehn Grimm. Duval County (Fla.) schools require parental permission for a student to read it because of graphic violence (a hunter kills a wild boar, for example). Walt Disney and other kiddie versions presumably are OK.
