Can you guess which books were most challenged in 2007?
Here is a quiz for three of them:
(these are excerpts from the actual book)
1. Two penguins in the penguin house were a little bit different. One was named Roy, and the other was named Silo. Roy and Silo were both boys. But they did everything together.
2. The elevator rushed on at the speed of a rocket. Now it was beginning to climb. It was shooting up and up and up on a steep slanty course as if it were climbing a very steep hill. Then suddenly, as though it had come to the top of the hill and gone over a precipice, it dropped like a stone and Charlie felt his tummy coming right up into his throat, and Grandpa Joe shouted, "Yippee! Here we go!"
3. "You're not taking this seriously," whispered her daemon. "Behave yourself."
Here daemon's name was Pantalaimon, and he was currently in the form of a moth, a dark brown one so as not to show up in the darkness of the hall.
Answers:
3. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
1. And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson/Peter Parnell
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Check out ALA's site on Frequently Challenged Books:
http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/bannedbooksweek/challengedbanned/frequentlychallengedbooks.cfm
