| During the past 200 years, America has gone | | | | actually a lighthearted children's poetry book. Why |
| through many political phases. During these times, | | | | was it banned? Because of inappropriate content. |
| many books have been banned by communities | | | | The book was challenged at a certain school in |
| who felt that they were providing a poor influence | | | | Florida because it was said to promote |
| for their children. However, it may surprise you | | | | "disrespect, violence, and horror." Some of the |
| which books were banned! Many of the following | | | | poems even encourage messiness and some |
| children's titles are widely available and critically | | | | disobedience, according to some parents who |
| acclaimed. Read on and see the 3 banned books | | | | requested that the book be banned. |
| that were most surprisingly banned in school | | | | 3. Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry |
| libraries in the US. I also included the reasons why | | | | Finn." This book was certainly regarded as one of |
| they were banned. | | | | the most controversial novels ever written and |
| 1. Madeleine L'Engle's "A Wrinkle in Time." Her | | | | one of the greatest ones, too. It was banned |
| books actually take place in some vivid fantasy | | | | because of the use of offensive language and a |
| world the one would never want to escape from. | | | | very pronounced racism. One school library even |
| (Remember J.K. Rowling's Hogwarts?) The book's | | | | said that the book's influence upon the youth is |
| plot centered on a little girl's basic goal of | | | | indeed "pernicious". Furthermore, the use of the |
| searching for her father. It was banned because it | | | | "n" word, which was used several times in the |
| includes crystal balls, hocus-pocus, and witchcraft; | | | | book, has been the cause for its removal from |
| and also for using the name of Jesus Christ along | | | | the reading list of eighth-grade. |
| with names of considered great artists, scientists, | | | | Well, if you have read these books and agreed |
| religious leaders, and even philosophers. | | | | with the reasons why they were banned, your |
| 2. Shel Silverstein's "A Light in the Attic." This is | | | | confusions are as great as mine. |