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Tables of Contents for Banned in the U.S.A.
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments and Dedication
ix
 
Introduction
xi
 
A Survey of Major Bookbanning Incidents
1
64
Kanawha County: West---By God---Virginia
1
6
Godless Textbooks in Washington County, Virginia
7
4
Island Trees v. Pico: A First Amendment Victory
11
5
Conflict and Compromise in Prince Georges County
16
9
Hawkins County, Tennessee: My Way or the Highway
25
8
Graves County: Kentucky-Fried Faulkner
33
9
Panama City, Florida: Darkness in the Sunshine State
42
11
Blasphemy in Cheshire, Connecticut
53
12
The Law on Bookbanning
65
36
Background
65
1
Appropriate Means and Legitimate Purposes
66
6
The Right to Receive Ideas
72
14
Secularism and Sex: The Twin Threats to America
86
4
Hazelwood: A Chill Wind for the 1990s
90
11
Voices of Banned Authors
101
34
Judy Blume
101
8
Daniel Cohen
109
6
Robert Cormier
115
8
Katherine Paterson
123
5
Jan Slepian
128
7
The Most Frequently Banned Books in the 1990s
135
86
Impressions
135
7
Jack Booth et al
Of Mice and Men
142
4
John Steinbeck
The Catcher in the Rye
146
4
J. D. Salinger
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
150
4
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
The Chocolate War
154
3
Robert Cormier
Bridge to Terabithia
157
2
Katherine Paterson
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
159
2
Alvin Schwartz
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
161
2
Alvin Schwartz
The Witches
163
2
Roald Dahl
Daddy's Roommate
165
2
Michael Willhoite
Curses, Hexes, and Spells
167
2
Daniel Cohen
A Wrinkle in Time
169
1
Madeleine L'Engle
How to Eat Fried Worms
170
2
Thomas Rockwell
Blubber
172
1
Judy Blume
Revolting Rhymes
173
1
Roald Dahl
Halloween ABC
174
1
Eve Merriam
A Day No Pigs Would Die
175
1
Robert Peck
Heather Has Two Mommies
176
2
Leslea Newman
Christine
178
1
Stephen King
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
179
2
Maya Angelou
Fallen Angels
181
1
Walter Myers
The New Teenage Body Book
182
1
Kathy McCoy
Charles Wibbelsman
Little Red Riding Hood
183
2
Jacob
Wilhelm Grimm
The Headless Cupid
185
1
Zilpha Snyder
Night Chills
186
1
Dean Koontz
Lord of the Flies
187
1
William Golding
A Separate Peace
188
1
John Knowles
Slaughterhouse-Five
189
1
Kurt Vonnegut
The Color Purple
190
1
Alice Walker
James and the Giant Peach
191
2
Roald Dahl
The Learning Tree
193
1
Gordon Parks
The Witches of Worm
193
1
Zilpha Snyder
My Brother Sam Is Dead
194
2
James Lincoln Collier
Christopher Collier
The Grapes of Wrath
196
1
John Steinbeck
Cujo
197
1
Stephen King
The Great Gilly Hopkins
198
1
Katherine Paterson
The Figure in the Shadows
199
1
John Bellairs
On My Honor
200
1
Marion Dane Bauer
In the Night Kitchen
201
1
Maurice Sendak
Grendel
201
2
John Champlin Gardner
I Have to Go
203
1
Robert Munsch
Annie on My Mind
203
1
Nancy Garden
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
204
2
Mark Twain
The Pigman
206
1
Paul Zindel
My House
207
1
Nikki Giovanni
Then Again, Maybe I Won't
208
1
Judy Blume
The Handmaid's Tale
209
1
Margaret Atwood
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols
210
1
Edna Barth
One Hundred Years of Solitude
211
1
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones
212
5
Alvin Schwartz
APPENDIXES
A: PAW's Most Frequently Challenged Books, 1991--1992
217
1
B: PAW's Most Frequently Challenged Books, 1982--1992
217
1
C: PAW's Most Frequently Challenged Materials, 1982--1992
218
1
D: PAW's Most Frequently Challenged Authors, 1982--1992
218
1
E: PAW's States with the Most Challenges, 1982--1992
219
2
Selected Bibliography
221
2
Index
223