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A couple of things to keep in mind...
First of all, some of these books are banned in some schools but not others.
* "Banned" could mean that it was banned from a 6th grade mandatory reading list, but allowed to remain in the library for students to check out (such as with Walter Dean Myers' Fallen Angels ).
* Or maybe, that it was banned from a middle school library because it was deemed inappropriate, but still allowed to remain on-shelf in a district's high school libraries (such as Judy Blume's Forever, which I hated and would never put in my middle school library because it read like a sex manual with a whiny, flat main character, and I didn't see anything that would cause it to even be marginally appropriate for middle grades... high school kids is another reading and maturity level than 6th graders!)
* Or maybe, not because it has violence or sex or profanity, but because people think it doesn't portray a certain group of people correctly (such as a book with a wishy-washy gay character, or a book where African-Americans in African-American heaven are shown exclusively eating fried chicken and watermelon).
Not that I always agree, and not that I always disagree. But it isn't always the conservative religious people banning books.
That said, I've got my BBW display up:
1. Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
4. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
7. Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
9. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
10. Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
12. My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
14, The Giver by Lois Lowry
16. Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
17. A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
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
27. The Witches by Roald Dahl
29. Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
30. The Goats by Brock Cole
33. Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
38. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
41. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
43. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
44. The Pigman by Paul Zindel
51. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
52. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
56. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
62. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
63. Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
68. The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
78. Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
84. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
89. Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
92. Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
96. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
97. View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts
98. The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
99. The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
100. Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
Woo-- 37 out of 100! That's awesome. Not that I've read all of them... but they're on my school shelves. (There were another 4-5 that I can't remember whether we have...)
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