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An Annual Report on Banned and Challenged Books in Texas, 2003-2004 Table of Contents

Executive Summary ...... 1

Banned Books List ...... 5

Challenged Books List...... 6

Decision Pending Books List...... 6

Use-Restricted Books List...... 7

Book Synopses ...... 8

Indexes By School District ...... 38

By Author ...... 40

i Banned and Challenged Books in Texas Public Schools, 2003-2004 A Report of the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas "To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker." – Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist, author, and orator (1817-1895)

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." – Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher and religious thinker (1813-1855)

“Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is the hallmark of an authoritarian re- gime…” – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, dissenting in Ginsberg v. U. S. (383 U.S. 463)

“And when we do that, shut off the dialogue, we do violence to the First Amendment and to the children of this generation and the next generation…” – John Henry Faulk, Texas humorist and author (1913-1990)

This is the ACLU of Texas’ eighth consecutive annual report on censorship in Texas public schools. Again this year, the Texas Library Association has joined the ACLU in sponsoring this report, which is based on information furnished by Texas’ nearly 1260 Independent School Districts (ISDs) and charter schools. The body of the report, which is indexed by book title, lists: • the book’s author(s) • the district or charter school in which it was challenged • the city in which the district is located (if different from the name of the district) • the setting (library or curriculum) • the reason(s) for the challenge: violence/horror; sexual content; profanity/inappropriate language; mysticism/paganism; or “other” • the result of the challenge: banned; use restricted; retained; altered; alternate book allowed; decision pending; or not indicated • any additional remarks made by the school employee furnishing the report

Indexes by author and school district appear at the end of this report.

Statistical Summary In 2003-2004, 88 independent school districts (including the Texas Youth Commission) and charter schools banned or faced challenges to 151 different books and one video used in their libraries and/or curricula. This El Campo ISD faced a challenge to Tamara L. is slightly more than 2002-2003’s statistics: 134 challenges reported in 71 Roleff’s Abortion: school districts. Opposing Viewpoints after a pro-life employee In this year’s report, no book stands out as the “most-challenged.” In recent complained about the book’s presence in the El years, J.R. Rowling’s popular Harry Potter series has surpassed other Campo High School books in generating challenges and bans. In the 2001-2002 school year, school library. The school Harry Potter books were the most often challenged books, with 71 district eventually challenges reported by 21 different districts; in most cases, the challenges retained Roleff’s book, a were made to "all Harry Potter books." Last year, four ISDs faced collection of articles written for high school challenges to Harry Potter books. Once again, four ISDs faced Potter students that explores challenges this year: Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD, Venus ISD, Clyde differing perspectives and CISD, and Dripping Springs ISD. viewpoints on abortion.

1 ACLU of Texas P.O. Box 12905 Austin, TX 78711 ph: (512) 478-7309 fax: (512) 478-7303 email: [email protected] Web site: www.aclutx.org Banned Books: www.bannedbooks.info However, 2003-2004 did produce a most-banned author: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, who was also the most frequently banned author of 2002-2003. Naylor writes a series of books about Alice McKinley, a teenager who copes with the problems and complexities of growing up and adolescence. Ector County, Klein, and Conroe ISDs faced “Alice” challenges. Naylor’s trilogy about Shiloh, an abused beagle, also produced challenges: Shiloh (Round Rock ISD) and Saving Shiloh (Carthage ISD) made our list.

Lueders-Avoca ISD faced more challenges than any other ISD this year, banning 18 titles from the Lueders Elementary school library. Coming in second place was Houston’s Cypress-Fairbanks ISD, with nine challenges. In 2002-2003, the top book-banning ISD was McKinney ISD, which this year faced only one challenge -- to Eloise in Paris by Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight. The book was retained. Last year, McKinney faced 11 challenges and banned five books.

Banned books are those physically removed from a library. Restricted books remain in the library but can’t be accessed by all students. Some restrictions are so severe as to be tantamount to banning. This year, 6% more books were banned than retained. The overwhelming majority of books challenged or banned appeared in libraries (148 instances). Nineteen were used in curricula. One book was used in neither setting, and five were challenged or banned from an unreported setting.

Results: • Banned (62 instances)(36%) • Retained/no restriction on use (53 instances)(30%) • Use/access restricted (33 instances)(19%) • Alternate allowed in curriculum or reading list (11 instances) (6%) • Final decision pending (10 instances)(6%) • Altered (three instances)(2%) • Not indicated (two instances)(1%) Sexual content (79) Highlights 19% Reasons for book challenges fall into several dis- 35% Profanity/language (78) 2% tinct categories (see chart), as well as “other” Violence/horror (20) (clarified by many, but not all, ISDs in their re- 9% sponses). Some “other” explanations included Mysticism/paganism (5) “reference to Jesus,” “misunderstood by students,” and “not suitable for age group.” 35% Other (43)

In “liberal” Austin, the local ISD reported two challenges: Barbara Park’s Junie B. Jones series, which the ISD reported was “altered”; and Iona and Peter Opie’s I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild’s Pocket Book, which was retained. Austin reported its Jones challenge as an unspecific, single entry, so we have listed it as such. Hays Consolidated ISD, located in the more conservative Austin metropolitan area, faced a challenge to Joanna Cole’s My Puppy Is Born, due to “photographs on page 6-7.” The ISD eventually retained the book.

ISDs faced many challenges to books by and about African Americans (see box for list), including the classic I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. Challenged or banned classics also include Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie; Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya; Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck; 1984 by George Orwell; Brave New World by Aldous Huxley; and The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark.

Reasons for Challenges and Bans Sexual content: This year, more books faced challenges due to sexual content than for any other specific reason provided to ISDs in our data collection survey. This is the same outcome as in the

2 2002-2003 school year. Many parents Books by or about African Americans, and administrators simply object to sex education of any kind in schools, or op- challenged or banned by Texas ISDs pose references to homosexuality – a Black Book (Diary of a Teenage Stud) Vol. III: Run, common topic in many of this year’s chal- Jonah, Run, Jonah Black lenged books. Black Boy, Richard Wright Black Talk: Words and Phrases from the Hood to the As with complaints about books contain- Amen Corner, Geneva Smitherman ing references to the supernatural, wiz- Blue Star Rapture, James W. Bennett ards, etc. – much more numerous in the Born in Sin, Evelyn Coleman early years of Harry Potter – complaints The Color Purple, Alice Walker about sexual content seem to be based Every Time a Rainbow Dies, Rita Williams-Garcia on religious fundamentalism, and are Flyy Girl, Omar Tyree From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun, Jacqueline associated with the increased activism Woodson of right-wing religious groups. It appears I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou that some religious activists consider that Just the Two of Us, Will Smith any description of sex, outside the con- Nightjohn, Gary Paulsen text of abstinence, encourages promis- A Rainbow of Gangs: Street Cultures in the Mega-City, cuity. The increasing trend to oppose James Diego Vigil books for this reason is disturbing, due Slave Day, Rob Thomas to the illustrated need for increased sex Smart Mouth: Poetry & Prose, WritersCorps youth education in schools (for instance, Tex- The Well, Mildred D. Taylor as’ high teen pregnancy rate). What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day, Pearl Cleage Yolonda’s Genius, Carol Fenner Profanity/inappropriate language: Many books contain language that might be offensive to some people, for reasons of profanity or for derogatory or blasphemous content. One interesting complaint this year came from Van Vleck ISD, where a parent challenged Maya An- gelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings after being “offended by the African-American Southern dialect used in the book.” According to the ISD, “the parent was satisfied with teacher’s explanation of the author’s use of dialect,” and the book remained in use at O.H. Herman Middle School without restriction.

Violence/horror: Compared to last year, challenges for this reason increased slightly. Books challenged or banned typically dealt with issues such as suicide (Eric E. Rofes’ The Kids’ Book About Death and Dying) and murder (the Final Friends trilogy by Christopher Pike; Richard Worth and Austin Sarat’s Children, Violence, and Murder).

Mysticism/paganism: Challenges were fewer than in 2002-2003. Some complaints focused on books’ discussion of religion. In Round Rock ISD, a parent complained about Phyllis Reynolds Naylor’s Shiloh because his Jewish son was asked to read the book. The parent “objected to a reference to praying to Jesus,” explained an ISD representative, and the student received an alternate assignment.

How We Compiled Our Report The ACLU of Texas uses a list of school district numbers, names, addresses and other data compiled for the Texas Education Agency and offered on its Web site. Using this database, volunteers mailed requests for information to all Texas Independent School Districts and charter schools under the authority of the Texas Public Information Act, Texas Government Code Ch. 552 (formerly known as the Texas Open Records Act). State law requires that public entities are to respond to such inquiries within 10 days. Included in the mailing are forms enabling school administrators to remit the request-

3 ed information in a simple, straightforward process. Respondents either mail or fax the form to the ACLU of Texas office, or respond via an online form posted at www.bannedbooks.info. Information from these reports is en- tered into a spreadsheet and converted into the report. ACLU volunteers write all book synopses.

Texas Library Association Resources No statewide, mandated standard for dealing with book challenges to public schools yet exists. Individual school districts manage book challenges in different ways. Some have adopted a written standard policy, which requires a formal review process by an established committee, while others leave the decision to teachers, principals and/or librarians. One district summarized Allen ISD faced a its approved policy for addressing complaints as follows: “The major criteri- challenge to Colin on for the final decision on challenged materials is the appropriateness of McNaughton’s Don’t Step on the Crack! at Bolin the material for its intended educational use. No challenged library material Elementary. According to shall be removed solely because of the ideas expressed therein.” Based on the ISD, McNaughton’s this information, a procedure similar to this would appear to be vague and story was challenged for subject to abuse at many levels. being “too scary for young children.” The ISD eventually retained the The Texas Library Association offers a model policy for dealing with book book. challenges in its Intellectual Freedom Handbook, which also offers library book selection criteria guidance in several sections. You can access the Handbook at www.txla.org/pubs/ifhbk.html. The ACLU strongly recommends adoption of a standard policy, based on the TLA procedures, to be used by all public schools.

Acknowledgements In most cases, ISD librarians and administrators responded promptly to our information requests. Often beset by special interest appeals to ban books from libraries and curricula, these individuals merit the thanks and appreciation of students and citizens who oppose censorship. However, a few school officials expressed strong resentment to our request. Some returned our forms without indi- cating which district they represented. Another official asked us why the ACLU only fought for “liberal” groups. The ACLU supports all individuals and groups facing censorship, regardless of political ideol- ogy or religious affiliation.

The following volunteers gave of their time and expertise (in alphabetical order): - Denise Brady: Synopses and legal. - Deb Calderon: ACLU Administrative Assistant. Mail and faxes. - S. Lee Leffingwell: Director emeritus. Consultation. - Holly Martin: ACLU summer 2004 law clerk. Fact-checking. - Matt Sharp: ACLU summer 2004 law clerk. Fact-checking. - David Smith: Webmaster, data management.

The project also extends much thanks to ACLU Executive Director Will Harrell and Development Director James Canup.

Report compiled, written, and designed by Lauri Apple.

Copyrighted 2004.

4 Banned Books (62 instances)

The Adventures of Cut Super Diaper Baby: the Patricia McCormick It’s So Amazing! A Seek First Graphic Novel Book About Eggs, Paul Fleischman Dav Pilkey, Harold A Dance for Three Sperm, Birth, Babies, Slave Day Hutchins, and George Louise Plummer and Families Robie H. Harris Rob Thomas Beard Daughter of Fortune Slot Machine After the Rain Isabel Allende Jack & Jill James Patterson Chris Lynch Norma Fox Mazer Drugs Smart Mouth: Poetry & Alice on the Outside Gail B. Stewart Leslie’s Journal Prose Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Allan Stratton Educating Esmé: Diary WritersCorps Youth The Beet Fields: of a Teacher’s First Letters from the Inside Stormy Night Memories of a Year John Marsden Esmé Raji Codell Michele Lemieux Sixteenth Summer Mama puso un huero! Gary Paulsen Ella Enchanted O como se hacen los Suicide (Opposing Viewpoints) Black Talk: Words and Gail Carson Levine ninos (Mommy Laid an David Bender Phrases from the Hood Egg: or Where Do Enchantment Babies Come From?) to the Amen Corner That Was Then, This Is Orson Scott Card Babette Cole Geneva Smitherman Now Every Time a Rainbow S.E. Hinton Blue Star Rapture Nightjohn Dies Gary Paulsen James W. Bennett Rita Williams-Garcia Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale Born in Sin On the Edge: Stories at The Facts Speak for Holly Black Evelyn Coleman the Brink Themselves Lois Duncan (editor) The Upstairs Room Both Sides Now Brock Cole Johanna Reiss Ruth Pennebaker Pedro and Me: Faerie Wars Friendship, Loss, and What’s in a Name The Boy Who Cried Herbie Brennan What I Learned Ellen Wittlinger ‘Wolf!’ The Figure in the Judd Winick Ellen Schecter What My Mother Shadows The Period Book: Every- Doesn’t Know Changing Bodies, John Bellairs thing You Don’t Want to Sonya Sones Changing Lives: A Give a Boy a Gun Ask (But Need to Know) Handbook for Todd Strasser Karen Gravelle and When Dad Killed Mom Teenagers Jennifer Gravelle Julius Lester Ruth Bell Alexander The Giver Lois Lowry The Perks of Being a Zap! I’m a Mind Reader Cosmos Coyote and Wallflower Dan Greenburg William the Nice I Saw Esau: The Stephen Chbosky Jim Heynen Schoolchild’s Pocket Book Plainsong Cowboy Ghost Iona and Peter Opie Kent Haruf Robert Newton Peck In the Night Kitchen The Rag and Bone Crack: The New Drug Maurice Sendak Shop Epidemic Robert Cormier Gilda Berger The Innocents Within Robert Daley A Rainbow of Gangs: Crazy: A Novel Street Cultures in the Benjamin Lebert It’s Perfectly Normal: Mega-City Changing Bodies, James Diego Vigil The Story of the X- Growing Up, Sex, and Men: How It All Began Sexual Health Secret Sacrament Michael Teitelbaum Robie H. Harris Sherryl Jordan

5 Challenged Books

Abortion: Opposing The Encyclopedia of Mick Harte Was Here Sinatra: A Life Viewpoints Serial Killers Barbara Park Remembered Tamara L. Roleff Michael Newton Lew Irwin My Father’s Scar: A Artemis Fowl: The Fat Camp Commandos Novel Stranger in a Strange Eternity Code Daniel Pinkwater and Michael Cart Land Eoin Colfer Andy Rash Robert A. Heinlein Black Book (Diary of a My Puppy Is Born The Fighting Ground Stuck in Neutral Teenage Stud) Vol. III: Joanna Cole Avi Terry Trueman Run, Jonah, Run Of Mice and Men Jonah Black Flyy Girl John Steinbeck Tangerine Omar Tyree Edward Bloor Bless Me, Ultima Peter Pan Rudolfo Anaya Forever J.M. Barrie Vatos Judy Blume José Galvez and Luis Blubber Psychological Alberto Urrea Judy Blume Gib Rides Home Disorders Related to Zilpha Keatley Snyder The Well Brave New World Designer Drugs Mildred D.Taylor Aldous Huxley Goosebumps Series Elizabeth Connelly R.L. Stine The Winner Bridge to Terabithia Remember Me 2: The David Baldacci Katherine Paterson The Great Gilly Return Hopkins Christopher Pike The Wish A Child Called “It”: One Katherine Paterson Gail Carson Levine Child’s Courage to Saving Shiloh Survive Halloween ABC Phyllis Reynolds Naylor What Looks Like Crazy Dave Pelzer Eve Merriam Scary Stories to Tell in on an Ordinary Day Pearl Cleage Children, Violence, Harry Potter and the the Dark and Murder Chamber of Secrets Alvin Schwartz Yolonda’s Genius Richard Worth and J. K. Rowling Shiloh Carol Fenner Austin Sarat Harry Potter and the Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Dangerous Sorcerer’s Stone Environments J. K. Rowling Missy Allen and Michel Peissed Harry Potter series Decision Pending (10 instances) J.K. Rowling Don’t Step on the Crack! I Know Why the Caged The Chocolate War Life Is Funny Colin McNaughton Bird Sings Robert Cormier E.R. Frank Maya Angelou Draw Me a Star Crazy: A Novel Mara in the Morning Eric Carle Iceman Benjamin Lebert C.B. Christiansen Chris Lynch The Drowned Final Friends Memory Boy Elizabeth Levy Junie B. Jones series (trilogy) Will Weaver Barbara Park Christopher Pike El Leon, la Bruja y El Stop Those Pants! Ropero (The Lion, the A Light in the Attic Harry Goes to Day Mordicai Gerstein Witch and the Shel Silverstein Camp What My Mother Wardrobe) Lostman’s River James Ziefert and C.S. Lewis Mavis Smith Doesn’t Know Cynthia DeFelice Sonya Sones Eloise in Paris Mai the Psychic Girl Just the Two of Us Kay Thompson Kazuya Kudo and Will Smith Ryoichi Ikegami

6 Use Restricted (33 instances)

1984 Bluebonnet Book) Death and Dying The Silver Kiss George Orwell Wendelin Van Draanen Eric E. Rofes Annette Curtis Klause Alice Alone Flowers for Algernon Magic Fire Sloppy Firsts Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Daniel Keyes Christopher Pike Megan McCafferty All American Girl From the Notebooks of Nathan’s Run Snow Falling on Meg Cabot Melanin Sun John Gilstrap Cedars Jacqueline Woodson Amanda’s Wedding The Ox-Bow Incident David Guterson Jenny Colgan Hate Crimes Walter Van Tilburg Clark Song for a Shadow Laura D’Angelo Beware of Kissing Patriot Games Bernie MacKinnon Lizard Lips Hatemongers and Tom Clancy Vampires Phyllis Shalant Demagogues Janet Perry and Victor Thomas Streissguth Princess in the Black Boy Spotlight Gentle Richard Wright In the Night Kitchen Meg Cabot What Happens When Maurice Sendak The Color Purple Psychological Effects You Grow? Alice Walker Introducing of Cocaine and Crack Joy Richardson Michaelangelo Addiction Cut When Dad Killed Mom Robin Richmond Ann E. Holmes, Carol C. Patricia McCormick Julius Lester Nadelson and Claire E. It’s an Aardvark-Eat- Reinburg The White Power Dear Nobody Turtle World Berlie Doherty Movement: America’s Paula Danziger Sexual Politics Racist Hate Groups Kate Millett Flipped (A Texas The Kids’ Book About Elaine Landau

7 Banned and Challenged Books Synopses [Quotations in “Notes” are taken from forms completed by ISD staff.]

1984 Synopsis: When the school principal finds George Author: Orwell, George and Harold causing havoc in the cafeteria, he as- Synopsis: Set in 1984 London, this classic de- signs them each an essay on good citizenship so picts a world in which Big Brother’s always watch- they will not write another comic about their su- ing, the Thought Police can practically read minds, perhero, Captain Underpants. Instead, George and the Party dictates “the Truth.” Caught up in and Harold write about a new character superhe- this frightening society is Winston Smith, who is ro: Super Diaper Baby and his fight against evil in danger because he retains his memory and re- Deputy Doo-Doo. mains aware that the School District: Friendswood ISD Party’s truth is fiction. Location: Friendswood School(s) Involved: Westwood Elementary School District: Round Setting: Library Rock ISD Reason Cited: Inappropriate language Location: Round Rock Result: Retained School(s) Involved: Notes: Parent request. Stony Point Ninth Grade Center School District: O’Donnell ISD Setting: Library and Location: O’Donnell curriculum School(s) Involved: O’Donnell Elementary Reason Cited: Sexual School content Setting: Library Result: Use restricted Reason Cited: Inappropriate language; sexual Notes: A parent chal- content lenged the book after her daughter was assigned Result: Banned to read it. An alternate title was assigned. Notes: None. ______Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints After the Rain Author: Roleff, Tamara L. Author: Mazer, Norma Fox Synopsis: A collection of articles exploring differ- Synopsis: Fifteen-year-old Rachel worries about ing perspectives and viewpoints on abortion, writ- everything. As her crotchety grandfather ap- ten for high school students. proaches death, she reaches out to him and comes to better understand herself and her world. School District: El Campo ISD Location: El Campo School District: Darrouzett ISD School(s) Involved: El Campo High School Location: Darrouzett Setting: Library School(s) Involved: Darrouzett Elementary Reason Cited: Other Setting: Library Result: Retained Reason Cited: Profanity/language; sexual con- Notes: “Staff member is totally against abortion tent for any reason. However, after looking at the en- Result: Banned tire book, she agreed that both sides of the issue Notes: The book will be reviewed by a committee were presented and fully discussed, and dropped during the summer. her opposition to [it.]” ______Alice Alone The Adventures of Super Diaper Author: Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds Baby: The First Graphic Novel Synopsis: From the continuing series about Al- Author: Pilkey, Dav; Hutchins, Harold; and ice McKinley, an adolescent girl. This volume finds George Beard 8 Alice in the ninth grade and struggling with family All American Girl issues (as the only female in her motherless fam- Author: Meg Cabot ily), a new classmate’s challenge to her longtime Synopsis: The trials and tribulations of Sam, a relationship with her boyfriend, and a startling rev- 15-year-old girl and self-described “urban rebel” elation of sexual abuse from one of her class- living in Washington D.C. mates. who falls in love with the boyfriend of her sister, a School District: Conroe ISD popular cheerleader. When Location: Conroe Sam inadvertently saves the School(s) Involved: Elementary life of the President of the Setting: Library United States, she becomes Reason Cited: Sexual content a national hero overnight, is Result: Use restricted named teen ambassador to Notes: Placed in intermediate library. the United Nations, and gets ______the president’s son as her Alice in April boyfriend. Author: Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds School District: Pleasant Synopsis: From the continuing series about Al- Grove ISD ice McKinley, an adolescent girl. In this volume, Location: Texarkana Alice faces her thirteenth birthday, and deals with School(s) Involved: Pleasant Grove Middle puberty, bodily changes, her family, and an ac- School quaintance’s suicide. Setting: Library Reason Cited: Profanity/language; other School District: Klein ISD Result: Use restricted Location: Klein Notes: Inappropriate subject matter. School(s) Involved: Roth Elementary ______Setting: Not indicated Reason Cited: Profanity/language; sexual con- Amanda’s Wedding tent Author: Colgan, Jenny Result: Not indicated Synopsis: The lives and loves of several twenty- Notes: None. something female Londoners, chronicled in the ______style of the popular film Bridget Jones’s Diary.

Alice on the Outside School District: Denison ISD Author: Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds Location: Denison Synopsis: Alice McKinley is in the eighth grade School(s) Involved: Denison High School and wonders about the status of her relationship Setting: Library with her boyfriend, Patrick; gains some insight into Reason Cited: Profanity/language the nature of prejudice from a weeklong, con- Result: Use restricted sciousness-raising exercise at school; and deals Notes: None. with the crush that another female student has on ______her. Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code School District: Ector ISD Author: Colfer, Eoin Location: Ector Synopsis: The third in a series of fantasy adven- School(s) Involved: Blanton Elementary tures of an adolescent boy criminal “mastermind.” Setting: Library Reason Cited: Other School District: Mesquite ISD Result: Banned Location: Mesquite Notes: A parent informally challenged the book, School(s) Involved: Rutherford Elementary claiming that it contained adult material. Setting: Library

9 Reason Cited: Profanity/language; violence/hor- Reason Cited: Profanity/language; sexual con- ror tent Result: Retained Result: Use restricted Notes: A committee reviewed the book. Notes: “The book was previously marked, ‘7th- ______and 8th-grade only.’ The grandmother of a fifth- grader felt the book contained offensive passag- The Beet Fields: Memories of a Six- es. Upon examination of said passages by the teenth Summer principal and librarian, the decision to allow the Author: Paulsen, Gary book to remain ‘as-is’ was upheld.” Synopsis: For a 16-year-old boy out in the world ______alone for the first time, every day is an education in the hard work and boredom of migrant labor. Black Book (Diary of a Teenage Stud) Every day teaches him something more about Vol. III: Run, Jonah, Run friendship, hunger, or profanity. He joins up with a Author: Black, Jonah carnival and becomes a grunt, running a ride and Synopsis: Jonah is shilling for the show. about to lose his virgini- ty, but a call from his ex- School District: Lueders-Avoca ISD girlfriend changes the Location: Lueders mood. School(s) Involved: Lueders Elementary Setting: Library School District: Crow- Reason Cited: Profanity/language; sexual con- ley ISD tent Location: Crowley Result: Banned School(s) Involved: Notes: None. Crowley Ninth Grade Setting: Library School District: Vidor ISD Reason Cited: Sexual Location: Vidor content School(s) Involved: Vidor Middle School Result: Retained Setting: Library Notes: None. Reason Cited: Profanity/language ______Result: Banned Notes: None. Black Boy ______Author: Wright, Richard Synopsis: An autobiography describing Wright’s Beware of Kissing Lizard Lips coming of age in poor, racist, rural Mississippi and Author: Shalant, Phyllis Memphis, Tenn. Synopsis: A scrawny sixth-grade boy discovers girls and gains confidence through learning mar- School District: Pearland ISD tial arts. Location: Pearland School(s) Involved: Ninth grade center School District: Houston ISD Setting: Curriculum Location: Houston Reason Cited: Profanity/language; sexual con- School(s) Involved: Emerson Elementary tent Setting: Library Result: Use restricted/alternate book allowed Reason Cited: Sexual content Notes: Novel removed from curriculum; excerpt Result: Retained in textbook will be used. Notes: Parent challenge. ______School District: Winnsboro ISD Black Talk: Words and Phrases from Location: Winnsboro School(s) Involved: Memorial Middle School the Hood to the Amen Corner Setting: Library Author: Smitherman, Geneva

10 Synopsis: The book opens the hidden history of School(s) Involved: Bales Intermediate School African-American culture as expressed through Setting: Library contemporary “Black English,” and is written as a Reason Cited: Profanity/language dictionary of words and phrases unique to the cul- Result: Retained ture: for examples, “kitchen,” “jump salty,” and “got Notes: None. her nose open.” ______School District: Texas Youth Commission Blue Star Rapture School(s) Involved: Corsicana Residential Treat- Author: Bennett, James W. ment Center Synopsis: T.J. Nucci, a cigarette-smoking junior, Location: Corsicana has a life-changing experience during a week of Setting: Library basketball camp. Reason Cited: Profanity/language Result: Banned School District: Beaumont ISD Notes: Teacher challenge. Location: Beaumont ______School(s) Involved: Elementary and Middle schools Bless Me, Ultima Setting: Library Author: Anaya, Rudolfo Reason Cited: Profan- Synopsis: Antonio, a young Hispanic boy living ity/language; sexual in New Mexico, faces a more complex maturation content process after Ultima, a “curandera,” comes to live Result: Banned with his family. Antonio is torn between his tradi- Notes: Executive warn- tional Catholic beliefs and the influence of Ultima, ing from district lead li- who cures with herbs and uses supernatural forc- brarian after teacher/ es to combat the evil in their midst. principal complaints. Few libraries at elemen- School District: Orangefield ISD tary or middle school Location: Orangefield levels actually had title School(s) Involved: High School in campus collections. Setting: Curriculum “This book is simply in- Reason Cited: Other appropriate for lower- Result: Alternate book allowed grade levels.” Notes: Religious objection to character in book. ______Student received an alternate assignment. Born in Sin School District: Van Vleck ISD Author: Coleman, Evelyn Location: Van Vleck Synopsis: Fourteen-year-old Keisha lives in a School(s) Involved: Van Vleck High School Georgia housing project full of drug dealers, but Setting: Curriculum works hard in school and is determined to achieve Reason Cited: Profanity/language her goals. She overcomes the discouragement of Result: Alternate book allowed school administrators and threats from a local drug Notes: None. lord, and ends up training for the Olympics in swim- ______ming.

Blubber School District: Lueders-Avoca ISD Author: Blume, Judy Location: Lueders Synopsis: Julie and her classmates tease their School(s) Involved: Lueders Elementary overweight classmate Linda, but their schemes Setting: Library to torment her backfire when the tables are turned. Reason Cited: Sexual content Result: Banned School District: Friendswood ISD Notes: None. Location: Friendswood

11 Both Sides Now woman has potential beyond the confines of their Author: Pennebaker, Ruth normal existence. Synopsis: Fifteen-year-old, ultra-responsible Liza School District: South Texas ISD has her life under control until her creative moth- Location: Mercedes er is diagnosed with breast cancer. Liza’s life be- School(s) Involved: Science Academy gins to fall apart, until she learns to accept the Setting: Curriculum uncertainties of life and come to terms with her Reason Cited: Sexual content mother’s illness. Result: Retained/alternate book allowed School District: Lueders-Avoca ISD Notes: Alternate books offered as per board pol- Location: Lueders icy (policy unchanged; administrative guidelines School(s) Involved: Lueders Elementary reviewed and revised). Setting: Library ______Reason Cited: Profanity; sexual content Result: Banned Bridge to Terabithia Notes: None. Author: Paterson, Katherine ______Synopsis: Jesse’s dull rural world expands when he befriends Leslie, the new girl in school, and The Boy Who Cried ‘Wolf!’ they create the secret world of Terabithia beneath Author: Schecter, Ellen a tree. When Leslie dies while trying to reach Ter- Synopsis: Retelling of the traditional fable for abithia in a storm, Jesse struggles with her death young readers. Illustrated by Gary Chalk. and the effect her life had upon his.

School District: China Spring ISD School District: Nederland ISD Location: China Spring Location: Nederland School(s) Involved: China Spring Elementary School(s) Involved: Central Middle School Setting: Not indicated Setting: Curriculum Reason Cited: Sexual content Reason Cited: Profanity/language Result: Banned Result: Content changed/deleted Notes: None. Notes: None. ______Brave New World Changing Bodies, Changing Lives: A Author: Huxley, Aldous Handbook for Teenagers Synopsis: This novel describes a utopian state Author: Alexander, Ruth Bell in which everyone consumes daily doses of Synopsis: Written by the authors of Our Bodies, “soma,” babies are Ourselves, this book discusses health and sexu- born in laboratories, ality issues for teenagers, including puberty, STDs and the most popular and the danger of promiscuous sex, and teenage form of entertain- pregnancy and its alternatives. Illustrated with car- ment is “Feelie,” a toons, photographs, diagrams, and line drawings. movie that stimulates Includes interviews with teenagers. the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. School District: Texas Youth Commission There is no violence, Location: Corsicana and every need is School(s) Involved: Corsicana Residential Treat- provided for, but Ber- ment Center nard feels that some- Setting: Library thing is missing. He Reason Cited: Sexual content senses that his rela- Result: Banned tionship with a young Notes: Assistant superintendent and principal challenge.

12 A Child Called “It”: One Child’s Reason Cited: Profanity/language; sexual con- Courage to Survive tent Result: Decision pending Author: Pelzer, Dave Notes: None. Synopsis: Autobiographical story of a boy’s child ______abuse as his alcoholic mother isolates him from the rest of the family, torments him, and tries to The Color Purple kill him by starving, poisoning and stabbing him. Author: Walker, Alice One in a series. Synopsis: A moving novel about an abused and School District: Clear Creek ISD uneducated black woman’s search for empower- Location: League City ment. Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize. School(s) Involved: Brookside Intermediate School District: Joshua ISD Setting: Library Location: Joshua Reason Cited: Violence/horror School(s) Involved: Loflin Middle School Result: Retained Setting: Library Notes: Book challenged by a sixth-grader’s par- Reason Cited: Sexual content ent. Result: Use restricted ______Notes: None. Children, Violence, and Murder ______Author: Worth, Richard and Austin Sarat Cosmos Coyote and William the Nice Synopsis: Explores causes of violent crime in- Author: Heynen, Jim volving children as well as attitudes toward child Synopsis: When Cosmos DeHaag leaves Seat- criminals. Profiles case histories of young mur- tle after a brush with the law, he goes to live with derers and tragedies such as the Columbine High his conservative Christian relatives in Iowa. In or- School shooting. der to get along, he develops an alter ego, Will- School District: Wharton ISD iam the Nice. When he falls in love with Cherilyn, Location: Wharton who is a charismatic Christian, he begins to have School(s) Involved: Wharton Junior High School trouble distinguishing truth from falsehood as his Setting: Library two personalities come into conflict. Reason Cited: Violence/horror School District: Lueders-Avoca ISD Result: Retained Location: Lueders Notes: This is the same challenge reported last School(s) Involved: Lueders Elementary year as a “decision pending.” Setting: Library ______Reason Cited: Profanity/language; sexual con- The Chocolate War tent Result: Banned Author: Cormier, Robert Notes: None. Synopsis: Stunned by his mother’s recent death, and appalled by the way his father sleepwalks School District: Texas Youth Commission through life, Jerry Renault, a New England high Location: Crockett school student, ponders the poster in his locker School(s) Involved: Crockett State School that asks, “Do I dare disturb the universe?” Jerry Setting: Library defies the school bully, Archie, and is at first a Reason Cited: Profanity/language hero, then a victim. Citations include “ALA Best Result: Banned Book for Young Adults.” Notes: All-male campus, caused classroom dis- ruptions. School District: Athens ISD ______Location: Athens School(s) Involved: Athens High School Cowboy Ghost Setting: Curriculum Author: Peck, Robert Newton

13 Synopsis: The story of 16-year-old Titus’s transi- School District: Garrison ISD tion out of boyhood during a cattle drive in 1924 Location: Garrison Florida. Titus and his crew battle Indians and cat- School(s) Involved: High School tle thieves and unpredictable weather, and receive Setting: Library words of wisdom from Reason Cited: Profanity/language; sexual con- a “cowboy ghost.” tent Result: Banned School District: Ector Notes: None. County ISD Location: Odessa School District: Hays Consolidated ISD School(s) Involved: Location: Kyle Blanton Elementary School(s) Involved: Hays High School Setting: Library Setting: Library Reason Cited: Other Reason Cited: Sexual content Result: Banned Result: Decision pending Notes: A parent infor- Notes: None. mally challenged the book, claiming it con- School District: Round Rock ISD tained adult material. Location: Round Rock ______School(s) Involved: All middle schools Setting: Library Crack: The New Drug Epidemic Reason Cited: Profanity/language; sexual con- Author: Berger, Gilda tent Synopsis: Explores the drug crack (the pure crys- Result: Banned at some schools, retained at oth- tallized form of cocaine) and educates teens about ers the dangers of use and addiction, manufacture Notes: This title was first challenged at Canyon and sale of the drug, the impact on children, and Vista Middle School, where the principal removed efforts to treat addicts and end the crack trade. it from the library collection at a parent’s request. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, it The parent then asked for the book to be removed includes a glossary and lists of suggestions for from the entire district. A district level II commit- further reading and help organizations. tee was selected, read the book, and decided it should remain in the high school collections. School District: Cypress-Fairbanks ISD ______Location: Houston School(s) Involved: Thorton Middle School Cut Setting: Library Author: McCormick, Patricia Reason Cited: Other Synopsis: Thirteen-year-old Callie is confined to Result: Banned a mental hospital, Sea Pines, because she cuts Notes: Explicit descriptions of drug use. Outdat- herself with sharp objects. She gradually improves ed information. and responds to therapy. ______School District: Cypress-Fairbanks ISD Crazy: A Novel Location: Houston Author: Lebert, Benjamin School(s) Involved: Goodson Middle School Synopsis: Lebert was only 16 years old when this Setting: Library autobiographical novel debuted, eventually be- Reason Cited: Other coming a German bestseller. Benni, the protago- Result: Use restricted nist, suffers from paralysis and poor learning hab- Notes: Belief that character’s self-mutilation would its. Kicked out of four boarding schools, he teams cause readers to do it, too. For only seventh- and up with a bunch of fellow misfits and sets out to eighth-grade checkout. explore the “crazy” life of drinking, sex, and cul- School District: Texas Youth Commission ture. Location: Corsicana

14 School(s) Involved: Corsicana Residential Treat- School District: Lueders-Avoca ISD ment Center Location: Lueders Setting: Library School(s) Involved: Lueders Elementary Reason Cited: Other; self-destructive behavior Setting: Library Result: Banned Reason Cited: Sexual content Notes: Student challenge. Result: Banned ______Notes: None. ______A Dance for Three Author: Plummer, Louise Dear Nobody Synopsis: Fifteen-year-old Hannah Ziebarth is Author: Doherty, Berlie pregnant with the child of her first love, Milo Fabi- Synopsis: Story of the im- ano, a good-looking boy from a wealthy family. In pact of a teenage pregnan- addition to the baby, Hannah’s mother has become cy on a young girl’s life, agoraphobic, her father has died, and Milo is family, and plans for college cheating on her. All this lands Hannah in a mental and the future. Carnegie facility, where a therapist eventually helps her to Medal-winning novel. reassemble her life. School District: Pleasant School District: Lueders-Avoca ISD Grove ISD Location: Lueders Location: Texarkana School(s) Involved: Lueders Elementary School Involved: Pleasant Setting: Library Grove Middle School Reason Cited: Sexual content Setting: Library Result: Banned Reason Cited: Sexual content; other/inappropri- Notes: None. ate subject matter ______Result: Use restricted Notes: None. Dangerous Environments ______Author: Allen, Missy and Michel Peissed Synopsis: A compilation of maps, illustrations, and Don’t Step on the Crack! information about 25 dangerous environments. Author: McNaughton, Colin Part of the Encyclopedia of Danger series. Synopsis: A “what-if” story, presented in picture- book format, about the dangers of failing to heed School District: Cypress-Fairbanks ISD the old wives’ tale. Location: Houston School(s) Involved: Milsap Elementary School District: Allen ISD Setting: Library Location: Allen Reason Cited: Other/explicit descriptions School(s) Involved: Bolin Elementary Result: Retained Setting: Library Notes: Informal challenge; no paperwork. Reason Cited: Violence/horror ______Result: Retained Notes: Too scary for young children. Daughter of Fortune ______Author: Allende, Isabel Synopsis: Allende’s sixth novel focuses on Eliza Draw Me a Star Sommers, a Chilean whose British adoptive par- Author: Carle, Eric ents a spinster and her brother try to raise her as Synopsis: The artist tells a young child to draw a a Brit. As Eliza grows up, she becomes more at- star. Then the star tells him to draw a sun, then a tuned to her heritage, falls in love with her father’s man and a woman, and so on, until a “universe” is clerk, and follows him to California. In her travels created. The story is based on the author’s child- she meets a Chinese doctor who becomes her hood memories of stories his grandmother had best friend. Set in the mid-1800s. told him.

15 School District: Northside ISD Setting: Library Location: San Antonio Reason Cited: Profanity; sexual content School(s) Involved: Elementary Result: Banned Setting: Library Notes: None. Reason Cited: Sexual content/illustrations ______Result: Retained Notes: None. El Leon, la Bruja y El Ropero (The ______Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) Author: Lewis, C.S. The Drowned Synopsis: Spanish translation of the popular chil- Author: Levy, Elizabeth dren’s fantasy book. Features religious undertones Synopsis: A teenager spends a boring summer and an exploration of in Atlantic City with her aunt, tries to occupy her- “good” and “evil.” self with a “haunted tour” of the city, and becomes embroiled in the case of a drowned teenage boy School District: Houston and his distraught mother. ISD Location: Houston School District: Mesquite ISD School(s) Involved: Ro- Location: Mesquite driguez Elementary School(s) Involved: Berry Middle School Setting: Curriculum Setting: Library Reason Cited: Mysti- Reason Cited: Profanity/language; sexual con- cism/paganism tent Result: Alternate book Result: Retained allowed Notes: None. Notes: Parent challenge. ______Drugs Eloise in Paris Author: Stewart, Gail B. Author: Thompson, Kay and Hilary Knight Synopsis: Social studies exploration of issues Synopsis: Sequel to the original Eloise, first pub- surrounding drugs and drug use. lished in 1957. Eloise is now six years old and School District: Little Elm ISD goes to Paris. Pen-and-ink illustrations. Location: Little Elm School District: McKinney ISD School(s) Involved: Hackberry Elementary Location: McKinney Setting: Library School(s) Involved: E.H. Slaughter Elementary Reason Cited: Other Setting: Library Result: Banned Reason Cited: Other Notes: Inappropriate subject matter for elemen- Result: Retained tary students. Notes: “Nude illustrations, pages 38 and 45.” ______Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teach- Ella Enchanted er’s First Year Author: Levine, Gail Carson Author: Codell, Esmé Raji Synopsis: Young Ella is cursed at birth when a Synopsis: The actual diary of a young, hip, first- fairy gives her the “gift” of obedience. Her mother year teacher in an inner-city Chicago elementary dies and she is left with an evil stepmother and school. stepsisters. Spunky Ella embarks on a search to find the fairy to break the curse and set her free, School District: Lueders-Avoca ISD encountering ogres, elves, a pumpkin coach, a Location: Lueders glass slipper, and a prince along the way. New- School(s) Involved: Lueders Elementary berry Honor.

16 School District: Ector County ISD School District: Lueders-Avoca ISD Location: Odessa Location: Lueders School(s) Involved: Blanton Elementary School(s) Involved: Lueders Elementary Setting: Library Setting: Library Reason Cited: Other Reason Cited: Sexual content Result: Banned Result: Banned Notes: A parent informally challenged the book, Notes: None. claiming it contained adult material. ______The Facts Speak for Themselves Enchantment Author: Cole, Brock Author: Card, Orson Scott Synopsis: Twelve-year-old Linda witnesses a Synopsis: A Ukrainian-born American student is murder. It quickly becomes clear during her inter- transported to the ninth century to play the prince rogation that she was sexually involved with the in a Russian version of Sleeping Beauty. Depicts murdered man. The story is structured around the history, religion, and myth in a time-travel tale. interrogation and Linda’s matter-of-fact narration of her tragic life story – from her Mother’s failed School District: Lueders-Avoca ISD marriage to being forced to care for her two broth- Location: Lueders ers. School(s) Involved: Lueders Elementary Setting: Library School District: Colorado ISD Reason Cited: Sexual content Location: Colorado Result: Banned School(s) Involved: Colorado Middle School Notes: None. Setting: Library ______Reason Cited: Sexual content Result: Banned The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers Notes: “Described a rape scene in too much de- Author: Newton, Michael tail.” Synopsis: A reference book providing informa- ______tion about individual serial killers and related topics in criminal justice. Faerie Wars Author: Brennan, Herbie School District: Cypress-Fairbanks ISD Synopsis: Henry Atherton’s family disintegrates Location: Houston when his mother has an affair with his father’s School(s) Involved: Cy Ridge High School female secretary. Henry escapes by helping an Setting: Library eccentric old man with household chores, and dis- Reason Cited: Violence/horror; other covers a parallel world where faeries in “the Pur- Result: Retained ple Kingdom” are embroiled in a battle to defeat Notes: Believed book would cause students to the forces of evil. In the end, what Henry learns become killers. allows him to resolve his issues with his family. ______School District: Newcastle ISD Every Time a Rainbow Dies Location: Newcastle Author: Williams-Garcia, Rita School(s) Involved: Newcastle School Synopsis: The world of 16-year-old Thulani, who Setting: Library came to Brooklyn from Jamaica with his mother Reason Cited: Profanity/language; sexual con- and brother, changes when his mother returns to tent Jamaica and dies, and he witnesses a rape in the Result: Banned alley outside his apartment. Thulani rescues the Notes: None. victim, who dresses in colorful “rainbow” clothes, ______and, in spite of her resistance, they become friends. Fat Camp Commandos Author: Pinkwater, Daniel and Andy Rash

17 Synopsis: To protest their forced attendance at a Reason Cited: Profanity/inappropriate language weight loss camp, a brother and sister and their Result: Banned friend run away and become pro-fat activists. Notes: Parent objection. A committee formed, reviewed the book, and decided to keep it. An up- School District: Waller ISD per-level administrator/cluster director decided Location: Waller that it needed to be taken off after parents ap- School(s) Involved: Fields Store Elementary pealed. Setting: Library ______Reason Cited: Other Result: Retained Final Friends (trilogy) Notes: “A mother stated that she felt the book Author: Pike, Christopher made fun of overweight people. After reading it, Synopsis: Three-part series involving an appar- [the librarian] felt the book was a humorous story ent suicide of a high school student at a party, about some boys at a weight loss camp who which may actually be a covered-up murder. learned self-acceptance, and put it back on the shelf.” School District: Stanton ISD ______Location: Stanton School(s) Involved: Elementary The Fighting Ground Setting: Library Author: Avi Reason Cited: Profanity/language; violence/hor- Synopsis: During the Revolutionary War, a 13- ror year-old boy and his father are working on their Result: Decision pending farm in New Jersey when they become drawn into Notes: “Paperwork on the challenge was brought the war. Jonathon is taken prisoner, and realizes to the elementary school office on Monday, April that the real war is being fought within himself. 19. It was sent to the librarian for committee review.” School District: East Central ISD ______Location: San Antonio School(s) Involved: Harmony Elementary Flipped (A Texas Bluebonnet Book) Setting: Library Author: Van Draanen, Wendelin Reason Cited: Profanity/inappropriate language Synopsis: Told alternately by eighth-graders Result: Retained Bryce and Juli, this story describes a unique girl Notes: Challenge made by a parent. who is infatuated (“flipped”) with a boy from her ______neighborhood. The boy thinks she is weird until the eighth grade, when his opinion changes and The Figure in the Shadows he begins to like her – just as she begins to lose Author: Bellairs, John interest in him. Synopsis: An insecure, overweight sixth-grader is convinced that an an- School District: Burleson ISD cient amulet owned by Location: Burleson his grandfather is really School(s) Involved: Frazier Elementary a lucky, magical talis- Setting: Library man, although it also Reason Cited: Other appears to bring him Result: Use restricted danger. Notes: Inappropriate relationship issues for younger students. School District: Ama- ______rillo ISD Location: Amarillo Flowers for Algernon School(s) Involved: Author: Keyes, Daniel Windsor Academy Synopsis: First published in 1959, this best-sell- Setting: Library er focuses on Charlie, a mentally disabled man who becomes part of a medical experiment to in-

18 crease his intelligence. The experiment has only Reason Cited: Profanity/language; sexual con- ever been tried once, on a laboratory mouse tent named Algernon. Charlie’s I.Q. gradually increas- Result: Retained es, until he surpasses most other humans and Notes: “Parent objected but did not submit for- becomes as alienated from his peers as he was mal request for reconsideration.” when simpleminded. Then, suddenly, the smart School District: Mesquite ISD mouse Algernon begins to deteriorate. Nebula Location: Mesquite Award-winning novel, and adapted into the Os- School(s) Involved: Horn High School car-winning movie Charley (1968). Setting: Library School District: Bellville ISD Reason Cited: Profanity/language; sexual con- Location: Bellville tent School(s) Involved: Bellville Junior High Result: Retained Setting: Curriculum Notes: “Parent said content was unsuitable. Par- Reason Cited: Profanity/language; sexual con- ent was mailed district reconsideration forms, but tent didn’t return [them].” Result: Use restricted/alternate book allowed ______Notes: None. ______From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun Author: Woodson, Jacqueline Flyy Girl Synopsis: At age 13, Melanin Sun, an African- Author: Tyree, Omar American boy growing up in Brooklyn, has to cope Synopsis: Tracy Ellison lives in Germantown, Pa., with finding out that his single mother has become a predominantly Black, middle-class neighborhood the lesbian partner of a white woman. Explores of Philadelphia. Tracy’s teenage problems stem themes of racism, prejudice, and familial love. mainly from boys, courting, kissing, and sex. The School District: Killeen ISD book chronicles her coming of age with a variety Location: Killeen of men. Her life is turned around when she sees School(s) Involved: Liberty Hill Middle School what happens to her neighbor’s older sister, who Setting: Library has become a crack-addicted prostitute. The Reason Cited: Sexual content moral of the book is that virtue is rewarded, and Result: Use restricted (in library office) vice punished. Notes: Challenged by a teacher who is also the School District: Killeen ISD parent of a student at campus. Location: Killeen ______School(s) Involved: Shoemaker High School Setting: Library Gib Rides Home Reason Cited: Other Author: Snyder, Zilpha Keatley Result: Retained Synopsis: Story of young Gib Whittaker’s expe- Notes: None. riences at an early 20th-century orphanage. Gib ______dreams of leaving the orphanage and having a real family. When an affluent family adopts him, Forever Gib dares to hope that he’s found a loving home Author: Blume, Judy at last, only to realize that he has been “farmed Synopsis: This story of first love between teen- out” – a routine practice of the era wherein older agers involves sexual activity, separation and loy- orphans were adopted to be sent to work as farm alty, parental relationships, and other young adult hands. issues central to romantic relationships. School District: Carthage ISD School District: Beaumont ISD Location: Carthage Location: Beaumont School(s) Involved: Libby Elementary School(s) Involved: “One” Setting: Library Setting: Library Reason Cited: Profanity/language

19 Result: Altered The Goosebumps series Notes: “We’re a campus of second and third grad- Author: Stine, R.L. ers. This book is in the 4.9-7.2 range of Acceler- Synopsis: Series of stories involving ghosts, gob- ated Reader. ‘White-out’ was applied to the words, lins, and scary happenings. and the book was returned to the shelf.” ______School District: Humble ISD Location: Humble Give a Boy a Gun School(s) Involved: Maplebrook Elementary Author: Strasser, Todd Setting: Library/book club Synopsis: The jocks have harassed and beaten Reason Cited: Violence/horror; other up high school sophomores Gary and Brendan Result: Retained for years. The boys plan and carry out a killing Notes: “Too frightening.” spree at their school that leaves them and other ______students dead or injured. Explores issues of school violence, gun control, and peer bullying. The Great Gilly Hopkins Author: Paterson, Katherine School District: Lueders-Avoca ISD Synopsis: Gilly is a precocious eleven-year-old Location: Lueders girl who has lived with several foster families, all School(s) Involved: Lueders Elementary of whom she has intensely disliked. She is sent to Setting: Library live with the Trotter family, the strangest so far, Reason Cited: Profanity/language; violence/hor- and devises a scheme to persuade her real mother ror to take her away. The plans do not work out as Result: Banned Gilly had expected, and she begins to wonder if Notes: None. she would rather stay with the Trotters after all. ______School District: Pasadena ISD The Giver Location: Pasadena Author: Lowry, Lois School(s) Involved: Parks Elementary Synopsis: A 12- Setting: Library and curriculum year-old boy is cho- Reason Cited: Profanity sen as leader of an Result: Retained apparently utopian Notes: None. society unhindered ______by sickness, crime or poverty, but soon dis- Halloween ABC covers the disturbing Author: Merriam, Eve truth about what the Synopsis: A collection of 26 poems, one for each citizens must give up letter of the alphabet, about the spookiest holi- to achieve such an day. ordered and conflict- free environment. School District: Cypress-Fairbanks ISD 1994 Newberry Med- Location: Houston al winner. School(s) Involved: Emmott Elementary Setting: Library School District: Graham ISD Reason Cited: Mysticism/paganism School(s) Involved: Woodland Elementary Result: Retained Setting: Library Notes: Informal challenge/no paperwork. Reason Cited: Other ______Result: Banned Notes: “Inappropriate for grade levels served. Harry Goes to Day Camp Book moved to Junior High library, which already Author: Ziefert, James and Mavis Smith had it available.” Synopsis: Harry the Hippo heads off to day camp. Early reader.

20 School District: Midway ISD Setting: Library Location: Waco Reason Cited: Mysticism/paganism School(s) Involved: South Bosque Elementary Result: Retained Setting: Library Notes: None. Reason Cited: Other Result: Decision pending School District: Clyde CISD Notes: “Phrase in book, ‘99 bottles of beer on the Location: Clyde wall … 98 bottles of beer.’ ISD is in the process of School(s) Involved: Intermediate selecting a committee and making a decision.” Setting: Library ______Reason Cited: Other Result: Retained Harry Potter and the Chamber of Se- Notes: “Lack of respect of adults in authority; lack crets of consequences for breaking school rules; bad behavior rewarded.” Author: Rowling, J.K. ______Synopsis: In one of the most hotly anticipated sequels in memory, J.K. Rowling takes up where Harry Potter series she left off with Harry’s second year at the Hog- Author: Rowling, J.K. warts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Old Synopsis: Series of books revolving around a boy friends and new torments abound, including a spirit wizard. named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girl’s bath- room; an outrageously conceited professor, Gild- School District: Dripping Springs ISD eroy Lockhart; and a mysterious force that turns Location: Dripping Springs Hogwart students to stone. School(s) Involved: Primary (PK-3) Setting: Library School District: Venus ISD Reason Cited: Mysticism/paganism Location: Venus Result: Retained School(s) Involved: Middle School Notes: Parent challenged at campus level and Setting: Library did not appeal. Reason Cited: Violence/horror; mysticism/pagan- ______ism Result: Retained Hate Crimes Notes: “The grandfather of a middle school stu- Author: D’Angelo, Laura dent believed the book encouraged witchcraft, sui- Synopsis: A factual book discussing the motiva- cide, etc. Following school policy, a committee re- tions of those who perpetrate violence against oth- viewed the book and decided that the book should ers for reasons of religion, sexual preference, eth- not be labeled or restricted.” nicity, or race. Uses high-profile U.S. cases as ex- ______amples.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone School District: Spring ISD Author: Rowling, J.K. Location: Houston Synopsis: First in a series of books chronicling School(s) Involved: Twin Creeks Middle School Harry Potter’s adventures at the Hogwart’s School Setting: Library of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Raised by a non-wiz- Reason Cited: Other ard “muggle” aunt and uncle, Harry does not know Result: Use restricted that his parents were wizards, or that he is fa- Notes: “Books were placed behind the circula- mous in the wizard world. He is summoned to at- tion desk for teachers to read, but not for student tend the infamous school and experiences the first use. The parent has not requested reconsidera- of many adventures. tion of instructional materials.” ______School District: Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD Location: Carrollton Hatemongers and Demagogues School(s) Involved: Thompson Elementary Author: Streissguth, Thomas

21 Synopsis: Starting with the original Salem witch Synopsis: The autobiography of a distinguished hunts, this book explores the history of racism and African-American poet. Angelou recounts the an- bigotry and the American leaders who have guish of her Arkansas childhood, and her adoles- spurred “hatemongering.” Includes coverage of cence in northern slums. In one incident, she be- McCarthyism, the Ku Klux Klan, “skinheads,” and comes pregnant against her will. others. School District: Como-Pickton CISD School District: Spring ISD Location: Como Location: Houston School(s) Involved: School(s) Involved: Twin Creeks Middle School Como-Pickton High Setting: Library School Reason Cited: Other Setting: Curriculum Result: Use restricted Reason Cited: Profan- Notes: “Books were placed behind the circula- ity/language; sexual tion desk for teachers to read, but not for student content; violence/horror use. The parent has not requested reconsidera- Result: Alternate al- tion of instructional materials.” lowed ______Notes: “Challenged by a parent. The book was Iceman used in a classroom Author: Lynch, Chris setting for all kids (10th- Synopsis: The boys on 14-year-old Eric’s hock- grade English) to read. ey team call him “the Iceman” for his ruthless play- The teacher/school ing of the sport. Eric is alienated from his father, substituted a book to who wants him to play even meaner; his mother, accommodate any child (or parent of a child) un- who constantly criticizes him; and his slacker comfortable with the book. Instructional method brother. His only friend is the quiet loner who works was also altered from large class group reading/ with him at the local mortuary. 1995 Best Books discussion to silent reading.” for Young Adults (ALA); 1995 Recommended Books for Reluctant Young Adult Readers (ALA); School District: Van Vleck ISD 1995 Books for the Teen Age (New York Public Location: Van Vleck Library); Books for Youth Editors’ Choices 1994 School(s) Involved: O. H. Herman Middle School (Booklist); English Journal Young Adult Literature Setting: Curriculum 1994 Honor List. Reason Cited: Language/offended by African- American Southern dialect used in the book School District: McAllen ISD Result: Retained Location: McAllen Notes: “No formal action was taken. Parent was School(s) Involved: Morris Middle School satisfied with teacher’s explanation of the author’s Setting: Library use of dialect.” Reason Cited: Profanity/language ______Result: Retained Notes: “Librarian will continue to allow eighth- I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild’s Pock- graders to use this book as purchased. The book et Book meets district criteria/does not display pervasive- Author: Opie, Iona and Peter Opie ly vulgar language because it contains such lan- Synopsis: First published in Great Britain in 1947, guage on less than 9% of the book. Eighteen pag- this book is a collection of over 170 whimsical es were noted of a total of 225 pages, each page “schoolyard chants.” Illustrated by Maurice containing one word.” Sendak. ______School District: Austin ISD I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Location: Austin Author: Angelou, Maya School(s) Involved: Hart Elementary

22 Setting: Library the Jewish ward of a pastor who runs an under- Reason Cited: Profan- ground resistance network. Based on the true sto- ity/language ry of Pastor Andre Trocme of Le Chambon-sur- Result: Retained Lignon, whose small Protestant village in France Notes: “A campus com- became a haven for Jews during the Holocaust. mittee found the book to be appropriate, and it School District: Lueders-Avoca ISD remains on the library Location: Lueders shelves.” School(s) Involved: Lueders Elementary Setting: Library School District: Ned- Reason Cited: Sexual content; profanity/lan- erland ISD guage Location: Nederland Result: Banned School(s) Involved: Notes: None. Highland Park Elemen- ______tary Setting: Library Introducing Michaelangelo Reason Cited: Profanity/language; sexual con- Author: Richmond, Robin tent Synopsis: Part of a series exploring the lives and Result: Banned masterpieces of three major artists. Notes: None. ______School District: China Spring ISD Location: China Spring In the Night Kitchen School(s) Involved: China Spring Intermediate Author: Sendak, Maurice Setting: Not indicated Synopsis: Mickey, a small boy, dreams of a “Night Reason Cited: Sexual content Kitchen” where he makes a cake with a cook who Result: Use restricted looks like Oliver Hardy, and has an adventure while Notes: None. looking for milk. ______

School District: China Spring ISD It’s an Aardvark-Eat-Turtle World Location: China Spring Author: Danziger, Paula School(s) Involved: China Spring Elementary Synopsis: Fourteen-year-old best friends Rosie Setting: Not indicated and Phoebe are happy when their single parents Reason Cited: Sexual content fall in love and move in together, but soon discov- Result: Use restricted er that being sisters is harder than being friends, Notes: None. and that there is no perfect family.

School District: Little Elm ISD School District: Bonham Location: Little Elm ISD School(s) Involved: Hackberry Elementary Location: Bonham Setting: Library School(s) Involved: Fin- Reason Cited: Other ley-Oates Elementary Result: Banned Setting: Library Notes: “Inappropriate illustrations for elementary Reason Cited: Sexual students.” content ______Result: Use restricted Notes: “A parent brought The Innocents Within the book to the librarian Author: Daley, Robert because he didn’t believe Synopsis: An American pilot shot down over cen- the content was appropri- tral France in 1944 during WWII falls in love with ate for third-graders. The parent didn’t demand re-

23 moval of the book, but just wanted it brought to Location: Plainview the librarian’s attention. The librarian has pulled School(s) Involved: Plainview High School the book from the shelf and has restricted stu- Setting: Library dent use.” Reason Cited: Profanity ______Result: Banned Notes: Parent challenge. It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing ______Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sex- Junie B. Jones series ual Health Author: Park, Barbara Author: Harris, Robie H. Synopsis: Series involving rambunctious young- Synopsis: Explains the physical, psychological, ster Junie B. Jones. Includes Junie B. Jones Has emotional and social changes that occur during a Peep in Her Pocket, Junie B. Jones Is a Party puberty. Includes watercolor and pencil illustra- Animal, Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook, Junie B. tions of various body types to encourage teen self- Jones Is a Beauty Shop Guy, and Junie B. Jones acceptance. Illustrated by Michael Emberley. Smells Something Fishy. School District: Fort Bend ISD School District: Austin ISD Location: Sugar Land Location: Austin School(s) Involved: Stephen F. Austin and School(s) Involved: Webb Middle School George H. Bush High Schools Setting: Library Setting: Library Reason Cited: Profanity/language Reason Cited: Sexual content Result: Altered Result: Banned Notes: Main character’s nonstandard English. Notes: None. ______Just the Two of Us It’s So Amazing! A Book About Eggs, Author: Smith, Will Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families Synopsis: Picture book by actor/singer Smith fol- Author: Harris, Robie H. lows a father as he watches his son grow through Synopsis: Written in comic book style, this book three stages of life – from newborn, to young child, is directed toward assisting parents in talking to to young man. children about “where babies come from,” and addresses topics such as conception, birth, love, sex- School District: Col- uality and family. Illustrated by Michael Emberley. lege Station ISD Location: College School District: Fort Bend ISD Station Location: Sugar Land School(s) Involved: School(s) Involved: Not indicated Rock Prairie Elemen- Setting: Library tary Reason Cited: Sexual content Setting: Library Result: Banned Reason Cited: Pro- Notes: None. fanity/inappropriate ______language Result: Decision pending Jack & Jill Notes: “A committee will review the parent’s writ- Author: Patterson, James ten complaint.” Synopsis: Popular murder detective Alex Cross ______(Kiss the Girls) returns to the D.C. streets to solve the homicides of a controversial U.S. senator and The Kids’ Book About Death and an innocent little girl. Dying Author: Rofes, Eric E. School District: Plainview ISD

24 Synopsis: Fourteen children offer facts and ad- Location: Pearland vice to help young readers understand death. School(s) Involved: Silverlake Elementary Setting: Library School District: Deer Park ISD Reason Cited: Profanity/language; sexual con- Location: Deer Park tent School(s) Involved: Deer Park Elementary Result: Banned Setting: Library Notes: Book sent to secondary library. Reason Cited: Violence/horror; profanity/lan- ______guage Result: Use restricted Life Is Funny Notes: “Challenge made by a community mem- Author: Frank, E.R. ber who felt that the book was inappropriate for Synopsis: The lives and loves of 11 Brooklyn elementary-aged children. She specifically noted teenagers, whose experiences involve domestic sections addressing cremation, fatal accidents, au- violence, alcoholic parents, and religious intoler- topsies, the Top Ten causes of death, suicide, as- ance, among other things. sassination, and other issues … and also noted that the word ‘bitch’ appears on one page of the School District: Somerset ISD book. The school librarian reviewed the book and Location: Somerset shared it with the school counselor, who agreed School(s) Involved: Junior High that much of the book’s contents were not appro- Setting: Library priate for elementary children. According to the Reason Cited: Sexual content librarian, the book was recoded as a ‘profession- Result: Decision pending al’ book and was indefinitely checked out to the Notes: Book removed after teacher challenge. school counselor, who plans to use it when work- The principal retained the book. ing with students who experience death.” ______A Light in the Attic Leslie’s Journal Author: Silverstein, Shel Author: Stratton, Allan Synopsis: A collection of Synopsis: Leslie, a 10th-grade girl, struggles with humorous poems and a broken family and being raped and abused by drawings. ALA Notable her older boyfriend, with whom she’s obsessed. Children’s Book; School Leslie runs away, but a substitute teacher exposes Library Journal Best Book her situation after reading her journal and report- of 1981. ing the crimes to the authorities. School District: Ector School District: Lueders-Avoca ISD County ISD Location: Lueders Location: Odessa School(s) Involved: Lueders Elementary School(s) Involved: Setting: Library Bowie Junior High School Reason Cited: Sexual content Setting: Library Result: Banned Reason Cited: Other Notes: None. Result: Retained ______Notes: “Obscenity of picture on p. 26 was in ques- tion. A committee of five members met on Jan. 1, Letters from the Inside 2004 to consider the challenge. After careful re- Author: Marsden, John view, they retained the book in the library. The Synopsis: Set in Australia, this psychological dra- illustration met the selective criteria in Local Poli- ma plays out in the correspondence between two cy EFA.” Parent challenge. teenage girls, one of whom is in a maximum-se- ______curity prison for a horrendous, unnamed crime. Lostman’s River School District: Pearland ISD Author: DeFelice, Cynthia

25 Synopsis: Tyler MacCauley and his family live in Mama puso un huero: O como se poverty in the wetlands of Florida, and befriend a hacen los ninos (Mommy Laid an stranger who claims to be studying the area. They discover he is planning to kill the wildlife rather Egg: or Where Do Babies Come than save it, and their future becomes threatened. From?) Author: Cole, Babette School District: Mabank ISD Synopsis: A comical story highlighting the birds Location: Mabank and the bees, featuring Cole’s cartoonish illustra- School(s) Involved: Lakeview Elementary tions. Setting: Library Reason Cited: Profanity/language School District: Amarillo ISD Result: Retained Location: Amarillo Notes: The ISD will provide guidance to students School(s) Involved: Humphreys Highland Ele- to determine individual appropriateness. mentary ______Setting: Library Reason Cited: Sexual content Magic Fire Result: Banned Author: Pike, Christopher Notes: Librarian-filed. “A committee was formed Synopsis: A Los Angeles high school student has and decided that the book was not appropriate “pyrekinetic” ability – i.e., he can start fires with for young readers.” his mind. He and his girlfriend lead a delusional ______crusade to free Earth from an alleged alien dom- ination, and jeopardize the entire city. Mara in the Morning Author: Christiansen, C.B. School District: Rains ISD Synopsis: Mara and her mother share some qui- Location: Emory et moments together in the early morning hours School(s) Involved: Intermediate while the house is still quiet. For preschool and Setting: Library elementary readers. Reason Cited: Sexual content Result: Use restricted School District: Boyd ISD Notes: “As a result of the challenge, the consen- Location: Boyd sus was to clearly label books according to inter- School(s) Involved: Boyd Elementary School est level. The Intermediate Administration request- Setting: Library ed grades 4-5 students receive parental permis- Reason Cited: Sexual content sion to check out upper-grade interest-level library Result: Decision pending materials.” Notes: “The school has not received the forms ______required for a formal challenge.” Mai the Psychic Girl ______Author: Kudo, Kazuya and Ryoichi Ikegami Memory Boy Synopsis: First of three volumes that tell the sto- Author: Weaver, Will ry of Mai, a Japanese schoolgirl who becomes Synopsis: Set in the year 2008. Sixteen-year-old the target of organizations of powerful conspira- Miles discovers that the volcanic ash falling over tors who want to use her for her psychic powers. his hometown of Minneapolis is affecting the whole country, which is thrown into chaos. Miles reveals School District: Clear Creek ISD his hidden mechanical skills, and uses his tools Location: League City to build a vehicle in which the family can escape School(s) Involved: Clear Brook High School the city. Setting: Library Reason Cited: Sexual content/nudity School District: Klein ISD Result: Retained Location: Klein Notes: Parent challenge. School(s) Involved: Strack Intermediate

26 Setting: Library My Puppy Is Born Reason Cited: Inappropriate language Author: Cole, Joanna Result: Decision pending Synopsis: A new litter of Norfolk terriers makes Notes: “Attitude towards adults.” life exciting for the little girl who lives next-door. ______School District: Hays Consolidated ISD Mick Harte Was Here Location: Kyle Author: Park, Barbara School(s) Involved: Hemphill Elementary School Synopsis: Phoebe Harte, age 13, describes the Setting: Library death of her brother Mick in a bicycle accident. Reason Cited: Other Her grief runs the gamut of emotions – shock, Result: Retained rage, disassociation, and anger with God. Phoe- Notes: “Photographs on pages 6-7.” be believes that if only Mick had worn a helmet, ______he would have survived the accident. Nathan’s Run School District: Houston Author: Gilstrap, John ISD Synopsis: Twelve-year-old Nathan Bailey is or- Location: Houston phaned, alone, and accused of murdering a po- School(s) Involved: Lov- lice officer. He becomes the target of a nation- ett Elementary wide manhunt, is followed by a hit man, and must Setting: Library plead his case to a rapt nation via an interested Reason Cited: Profanity/ talk radio show host. language Result: Retained School District: Brownsboro ISD Notes: “Parent did not Location: Brownsboro present a formal chal- School(s) Involved: Brownsboro Junior High lenge, although she was Setting: Library told she had that right. She Reason Cited: Profanity/language stated she would write to the HISD superinten- Result: Use restricted/already on restricted list dent about this book.” Notes: “No official challenge; only a complaint by ______student’s relative (not the parent or guardian).” ______My Father’s Scar: A Novel Author: Cart, Michael Nightjohn Synopsis: A gay youth’s coming-of-age story, set Author: Paulsen, Gary in the early 1970s when he is a college freshman. Synopsis: An adult slave named Nightjohn teach- Includes flashbacks to pivotal moments in the es 12-year-old Sarny, also a slave, how to read – character’s adolescence, including his relationship in spite of grim consequences (dismemberment) with his father and first loves. that could result if they are discovered.

School District: Edgewood ISD School District: Union Grove ISD Location: San Antonio Location: Gladewater School(s) Involved: Wrenn Middle School School(s) Involved: Sixth-grade Setting: Library Setting: Extra reading resource Reason Cited: Profanity/language; sexual con- Reason Cited: Sexual content; profanity/inappro- tent priate language Result: Retained Result: Banned Notes: “Pulled for administrative review. Returned Notes: “A teacher read this book aloud to stu- to shelf since claimant did not pursue a formal dents. The book was not part of the actual curric- reconsideration process.” ulum, but an extra resource in reading. Teacher stopped reading the book after parents objected to graphic content.”

27 Of Mice and Men School District: Seguin ISD Author: Steinbeck, John Location: Seguin Synopsis: George Milton and Lennie Small are School(s) Involved: Vogel Elementary ranch hands who dream of one day owning a small Setting: Library farm. George acts as a father figure to simple- Reason Cited: Profanity/language; sexual con- minded Lennie, calming him and helping to rein tent in his great physical strength. When Lennie acci- Result: Use restricted dentally kills the ranch owner’s flirtatious daugh- Notes: “Marked for older students’ use only.” ter-in-law, George shoots his friend rather than ______allow him to be captured by a vengeful lynch mob. Patriot Games School District: Copperas Cove ISD Author: Clancy, Tom Location: Copperas Cove Synopsis: An ultra-left-wing faction of the IRA has School(s) Involved: Copperas Cove High School targeted a CIA analyst for stifling an assassina- Setting: Curriculum tion attempt on the life of Prince Charles. For his Reason Cited: Profanity/language; violence/hor- act of salvation, the analyst must pay with his life. ror Result: Alternate book allowed School District: Rains ISD Notes: None. Location: Emory School(s) Involved: Intermediate School District: Waxahachie ISD Setting: Library Location: Waxahachie Reason Cited: Violence/horror School(s) Involved: Secondary Result: Use restricted Setting: Library/Curriculum Notes: “As a result of the challenge, the consen- Reason Cited: Profanity/language; violence/hor- sus was to clearly label books according to inter- ror est level. The Intermediate Administration request- Result: Retained ed grades 4-5 students receive parental permis- Notes: None. sion to check out upper-grade interest-level library ______materials.” ______On the Edge: Stories at the Brink Author: Duncan, Lois (editor) Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and Synopsis: Duncan, an award-winning author of What I Learned more than 40 suspense thrillers for young adults, Author: Winick, Judd puts together a riveting collection of short stories Synopsis: Graphic novel tells the story of the au- by Gail Carson Levine, Alden Carter, and other thor’s friendship with Zamora, an HIV-positive esteemed writers. AIDS activist.

School District: Lueders-Avoca ISD School District: Texas Youth Commission Location: Lueders Location: Crockett School(s) Involved: Lueders Elementary School(s) Involved: Crockett State School Setting: Library Setting: Library Reason Cited: Profanity; sexual content Reason Cited: Sexual content; other/gang con- Result: Banned tent Notes: None. Result: Banned ______Notes: All-male campus; caused classroom dis- ruptions. The Ox-Bow Incident ______Author: Clark, Walter Van Tilburg Synopsis: Set in 1885, and first published in 1940, The Period Book: Everything You Clark’s book tells the story of the lynching of three Don’t Want to Ask (But Need to innocent men and the emotional tragedy that con- Know) sequently ensues in a Western town. Author: Gravelle, Karen and Jennifer Gravelle

28 Synopsis: The au- cludes encounters with mermaids, Indians, fairy thor and her 15- dust, and Captain Hook. year-old niece an- swer questions a School District: Carthage ISD young girl might Location: Carthage have about her peri- School(s) Involved: Libby Elementary od, including what it Setting: Library feels like, how to Reason Cited: Sexual content choose pads and Result: Retained tampons, the physi- Notes: “Illustrations of a mermaid with a bare cal, social and emo- chest. The 7.2 reading level book is seldom read tional changes that come with it, and to how to talk by second- and third-graders.” to your parents about it. Illustrations by Debbie Palen. ______

School District: Texas Youth Commission Plainsong Location: Crockett Author: Haruf, Kent School(s) Involved: Crockett State School Synopsis: Story of a life in a small town in Colo- Setting: Library rado, including the trials and tribulations of a sin- Reason Cited: Other gle father trying to raise his two sons, a pregnant Result: Banned teenager deserted by her boyfriend, and two eld- Notes: All-male campus. Caused classroom dis- erly lifelong bachelors farming their old family ruptions. homestead. ______School District: Lueders-Avoca ISD The Perks of Being a Wallflower Location: Lueders Author: Chbosky, Stephen School(s) Involved: Lueders Elementary Synopsis: Story of a high school “wallflower,” told Setting: Library through letters of an introverted boy. Includes ex- Reason Cited: Profanity; sexual content periences with first dates and first loves, family, Result: Banned friends, sex drugs, and music. Notes: None. ______School District: Cypress-Fairbanks ISD Location: Houston Princess in the Spotlight School(s) Involved: Hamilton Middle School Author: Cabot, Meg Setting: Library Synopsis: Continuing story of The Princess Dia- Reason Cited: Profanity/language ries, accounts of the teenaged princess of Gen- Result: Retained ovia. In this volume, Mia must deal with unexpect- Notes: Informal challenge; no paperwork. ed news from her mother and a secret admirer.

School District: Lueders-Avoca ISD School District: Crandall ISD Location: Lueders Location: Crandall School(s) Involved: Lueders Elementary School(s) Involved: L.F. Raynes Middle School Setting: Library Setting: Library Reason Cited: Profanity Reason Cited: Other; sexual content Result: Banned Result: Use restricted Notes: None. Notes: “The parent challenged that the subject ______matter and sexual explicitness were inappropriate for a sixth-grader. The committee agreed the Peter Pan book is appropriate for only very mature, middle Author: Barrie, J.M. school-age students. Since the grade configura- Synopsis: Wendy, John, and Michael Darling fol- tion is 6, 7, and 8, the book was restricted for low Peter Pan, the boy who never grows up, to a check-out by sixth-graders.” world where fairies live and children can fly. In-

29 Psychological Disorders Related to A Rainbow of Gangs: Street Cultures Designer Drugs in the Mega-City Author: Connelly, Elizabeth Author: Vigil, James Diego Synopsis: Examines the history, nature, effects, Synopsis: About youth “street culture” in current and dangers of drugs such as Ecstasy, PCP, fen- society. tanyl, and meperidine. School District: Texas Youth Commission School District: Cypress-Fairbanks ISD Location: San Saba Location: Houston School(s) Involved: San Saba State School School(s) Involved: Thorton Middle School Setting: Library Setting: Library Reason Cited: Other Reason Cited: Other Result: Banned Result: Retained Notes: Gang content. Notes: Detailed descriptions of drug use. Infor- ______mative, age appropriate. ______Remember Me 2: The Return Author: Pike, Christopher Psychological Effects of Cocaine and Synopsis: The spirit of a murdered teenager re- Crack Addiction turns in the body of another 18-year-old to keep Author: Holmes, Ann E., Carol C. Nadelson and the murderer from killing again. Claire E. Reinburg School District: Amarillo ISD Synopsis: Examines the problems associated Location: Amarillo with the use of crack and other forms of cocaine, School(s) Involved: Bowie Middle School focusing on the mental and psychological disor- Setting: Library ders that can occur. Reason Cited: Profanity/inappropriate language; School District: Cypress-Fairbanks ISD sexual content; violence/horror Location: Houston Result: Retained School(s) Involved: Thorton Middle School Notes: “Parent objection. Parents moved to an- Setting: Library other school and did not file a formal complaint.” Reason Cited: Other ______Result: Use restricted/in reference Notes: “Explicit descriptions of drug use. Re- Saving Shiloh search-based; better uses are for teachers and Author: Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds individual student research projects.” Synopsis: Sixth-grader Marty and his family try ______to help their tough neighbor, Judd, change his mean ways, even though their West Virginia com- The Rag and Bone Shop munity considers Judd to be a terminal trouble- Author: Cormier, Robert maker. Synopsis: A young interrogator tries to prove a School District: Carthage ISD reclusive 12-year-old murdered his seven-year- Location: Carthage old friend in Monument, Mass. School(s) Involved: Libby Elementary School District: Lueders-Avoca ISD Setting: Library Location: Lueders Reason Cited: Profanity/language School(s) Involved: Lueders Elementary Result: Retained Setting: Library Notes: “This is the only book in the trilogy that Reason Cited: Sexual content has been challenged. Should another complaint Result: Banned transpire, alterations of the words will be made.” Notes: None. ______Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Author: Schwartz, Alvin

30 Synopsis: One of Schwartz’s popular books on Synopsis: Feminist treatise regarding the oppres- American folklore, filled with 24 scary stories and sion of women in literature, philosophy, psycholo- songs. Includes skeletons, ghosts, and haunted gy, and politics. houses. Illustrated. School District: Millsap ISD School District: Humble ISD Location: Millsap Location: Humble School(s) Involved: High School School(s) Involved: Maplebrook Elementary Setting: Library Setting: Library Reason Cited: Sexual content Reason Cited: Violence/horror; other Result: Use restricted Result: Retained Notes: “The text was deemed inappropriate for Notes: “Too frightening.” high school students due to explicit descriptions ______of sexual acts. Book came in a ‘bundle’ and did not get screened prior to shelving.” Secret Sacrament ______Author: Jordan, Sherryl Synopsis: Award-win- Shiloh ner Jordan’s fantasy Author: Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds novel about Gabriel, a Synopsis: When he finds a lost beagle in the hills young healer whose behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide journeys involve both it from his family and the dog’s real owner, who is danger and personal unduly harsh to his dogs. sacrifice. School District: Round Rock ISD School District: Lued- Location: Round Rock ers-Avoca ISD School(s) Involved: Pond Springs Elementary Location: Lueders Setting: Library/curriculum School(s) Involved: Reason Cited: Other/reference to Jesus Lueders Elementary Result: Alternate book allowed Setting: Library Notes: “The Jewish parent of a student objected Reason Cited: Sexual to a reference to praying to Jesus. The student content was given an alternate assignment.” Result: Banned ______Notes: None. ______The Silver Kiss Author: Klause, Annette Curtis Seek Synopsis: A mysterious teenage boy who har- Author: Fleischman, Paul bors a secret helps a girl come to terms with her Synopsis: A high school senior uses the San mother’s deadly illness. Francisco radio airwaves to search for his missing father. School District: Mission CISD Location: Mission School District: Huntington ISD School(s) Involved: Mission, K. White, and Al- Location: Huntington ton Memorial Junior High Schools School(s) Involved: Intermediate (grades 4-5) Setting: Curriculum Setting: Library Reason Cited: Other Reason Cited: Profanity; sexual content Result: Use restricted Result: Banned Notes: “Age appropriateness of content materi- Notes: “Principal refused to follow written policy.” al.” ______Sexual Politics Sinatra: A Life Remembered Author: Millett, Kate Author: Irwin, Lew

31 Synopsis: A bio- old Jessica is distraught that the only person with graphical book fea- whom she could really communicate has gone. turing photos and Now she has to deal with the superficial girls at facts about the leg- school, her family’s obsessions, and her lack of a endary crooner. love life all by herself.

School District: Cy- School District: Barbers Hill ISD press-Fairbanks ISD Location: Mont Belvieu Location: Houston School(s) Involved: Barbers Hill Middle School School(s) Involved: Setting: Library Watkins Middle School Reason Cited: Profanity/inappropriate language; Setting: Library sexual content Reason Cited: Profanity/language Result: Use restricted Result: Retained Notes: None. Notes: “Informal challenge; no paperwork.” ______Slot Machine Slave Day Author: Lynch, Chris Author: Thomas, Rob Synopsis: When overweight teenager Elvin is Synopsis: On “Slave Day,” student council mem- sent to a retreat, he and his two best friends try bers and some of the faculty at Robert E. Lee out different sports to see where they fit in. High School in Deerfield, Texas are “sold” to “mas- ters” to raise money for charity. Shawn Greeley, School District: Liberty-Eylau ISD the African-American student council president, Location: Texarkana is purchased by an African-American activist, who School(s) Involved: Liberty-Eylau Middle School contends the event is racist and wants to teach Setting: Library Shawn and others a lesson. Other slave-master Reason Cited: Profanity/language relationships take unusual and surprising turns, Result: Banned as a poor student buys an unpopular teacher, a Notes: None. female student buys a computer “geek,” and a ______cheerleader buys her athlete boyfriend. Written from the perspective of each of the main charac- Smart Mouth: Poetry & Prose ters as they explore the issues of racism, femi- Author: WritersCorps Youth nism, and equality. Synopsis: A collection of poetry and prose by inner-city youths. School District: Kountze ISD Location: Kountze School District: Graham ISD School(s) Involved: Kountze Middle School Location: Graham Setting: Library School(s) Involved: Graham Junior High Reason Cited: Profanity/language; sexual con- Setting: Library tent Reason Cited: Profanity/language Result: Banned Result: Banned Notes: “Two parents expressed concerns about Notes: “Book moved up to high school library.” the suitability of this book for middle school stu- ______dents. Upon detailed review, the parents’ concerns were found to be factual.” Snow Falling on Cedars ______Author: Guterson, David Synopsis: Focused on the post-World War II mur- Sloppy Firsts der trial of a Japanese-American man accused of Author: McCafferty, Megan murdering his colleague, a fisherman. The plot Synopsis: When her best friend moves away from also traces the personal histories of the main char- their small New Jersey town, sensitive 16-year- acters, dealing with Japanese internment during the war and race relations in a small, mixed-race

32 community. It is also an intriguing mystery with an Result: Decision pending interesting twist at the end of the trial. Notes: None. ______School District: Hamilton ISD Location: Hamilton Stormy Night School(s) Involved: Hamilton High School Author: Lemieux, Michele Setting: Curriculum Synopsis: The author’s exquisite, inventive draw- Reason Cited: Profanity/language; sexual con- ings imaginatively illustrate the Big Questions rac- tent ing through a girl’s mind as she lies in bed on a Result: Use restricted/alternate book allowed stormy night. Notes: “Parents and students who found the book offensive were allowed to choose another book. School District: Little Elm ISD Also, the teacher primarily focused on the seg- Location: Little Elm ments of literary value, choosing to omit the sec- School(s) Involved: Hackberry Elementary tions containing profanity, inappropriate language, Setting: Library and sexual content. Campus principal formally Reason Cited: Other challenged the book.” Result: Banned ______Notes: “Inappropriate illustrations for elementary students.” Song for a Shadow ______Author: MacKinnon, Bernie Synopsis: Being the The Story of the X-Men: How It All son of a famous rock Began star creates a troubled Author: Teitelbaum, Michael family life for Aaron, Synopsis: This illustrated book introduces read- who has to live in the ers to the original team of X-Men and describes shadow of his father’s how Charles Xavier, a.k.a. Professor X, brought fame and his mother’s them together. mental illness. School District: North East ISD School District: Pleas- Location: San Antonio ant Grove ISD School(s) Involved: Hardy Oak Elementary Location: Texarkana Setting: Library School(s) Involved: Reason Cited: Sexual content; violence/horror Pleasant Grove Middle Result: Banned School Notes: “Book deemed inappropriate for the ele- Setting: Library mentary level and sent to the middle school.” Reason Cited: Profanity/language ______Result: Use restricted Notes: None. Stranger in a Strange Land ______Author: Heinlein, Robert A. Synopsis: Science-fiction story of a man, raised Stop Those Pants! on Mars by Martians, who arrives on Earth with Author: Gerstein, Mordicai no knowledge of its cultures or religions. He es- Synopsis: A young boy has trouble getting pouses a religion of free love and psychic inter- dressed one morning because his clothes have vention, which creates turmoil. minds of their own. School District: South Texas ISD School District: Boyd ISD Location: Mercedes Location: Boyd School(s) Involved: Science Academy School(s) Involved: Boyd Elementary School Setting: Curriculum Setting: Library Reason Cited: Sexual content Reason Cited: Sexual content

33 Result: Retained Location: Friendswood Notes: “Alternate books offered as per board pol- School(s) Involved: Friendswood Junior High icy (policy unchanged; administrative guidelines Setting: Curriculum reviewed and revised).” Reason Cited: Violence ______Result: Retained Notes: “Action taken by parent.” Stuck in Neutral ______Author: Trueman, Terry Synopsis: Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel That Was Then, This Is Now has cerebral palsy and cannot walk or talk. Unbe- Author: Hinton, S.E. knownst to anyone, however, he also has excel- Synopsis: Sixteen-year-olds Mark and Bryon lent cognitive abilities and is well-adjusted and have been like brothers since childhood. As their happy. Shawn discovers that his well-meaning involvement with girls, gangs, and drugs increas- father wants to kill him to end what he believes es, their relationship seems to gradually disinte- must be a tortured life because of Shawn’s phys- grate. ical disability. Told from Shawn’s perspective, the book raises issues of the meaning of freedom, School District: Big Spring ISD life and death, and parental responsibility. Location: Big Spring School(s) Involved: Marcy Elementary School District: Abilene ISD Setting: Library Location: Abilene Reason Cited: Other/not suitable for age group School(s) Involved: Franklin Middle School Result: Banned Setting: Library Notes: None. Reason Cited: Profanity/language; sexual con- ______tent Result: Retained Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale Notes: None. Author: Black, Holly ______Synopsis: Kaye Fierch, a hard-living, 16-year-old “Asian blonde” faerie, believes she’s human. Af- Suicide (Opposing Viewpoints) ter her rock-and-roll mom’s boyfriend threatens Author: Bender, David to kill her, Kaye returns to her childhood home in Synopsis: Discussion of the issues surrounding New Jersey with her mother, and discovers her- suicide. For teen readers. self in the middle of a rivalry between two faerie kingdoms. School District: Texas Youth Commission Location: Corsicana School District: Cypress- School(s) Involved: Corsicana Residential Treat- Fairbanks ISD ment Center Location: Houston Setting: Library School(s) Involved: Lang- Reason Cited: Other; misunderstood by students ham Creek High School Result: Banned Setting: Library Notes: Student challenge. Reason Cited: Profanity/ ______language Result: Retained Tangerine Notes: “Informal chal- Author: Bloor, Edward lenge; no paperwork.” Synopsis: Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for School District: Port Neches-Groves ISD the right to play soccer despite his near blindness, Location: Port Neches and slowly begins to remember the incident that School(s) Involved: Port Neches Middle School damaged his eyesight. Setting: Library Reason Cited: Profanity/language; sexual content School District: Friendswood ISD

34 Result: Banned Vatos Notes: None. Author: Galvez, José and Luis Alberto Urrea ______Synopsis: Collection of photographs and prose by and about Latino boys and men. Galvez has won The Upstairs Room the Pulitzer Prize. Author: Reiss, Johanna Synopsis: An autobiography about two young School District: Granbury ISD Dutch-Jewish sisters during World War II, who were Location: Granbury separated from their family and forced to hide for School(s) Involved: Acton Middle School more than two years in the upstairs room of a peas- Setting: Library ant Gentile family’s remote farmhouse. Honors in- Reason Cited: Other clude: 1973 Newberry Honor Book, Notable Chil- Result: Retained dren’s Books of 1971-1975 (ALA) and Outstand- Notes: “A teacher thought it encouraged Hispanic ing Children’s Books of 1972 (New York Times), gangs. No formal challenge.” among many others. ______School District: Midway ISD The Well Location: Waco Author: Taylor, Mildred D. School(s) Involved: Spring Valley Elementary Synopsis: In this continuation of the Logan family Setting: Library saga, the father recounts an incident from his boy- Reason Cited: Profanity/language hood during the 1910 drought in Mississippi involv- Result: Banned ing interracial relations and adolescent behavior. Notes: “The book was removed from the library because of the strong language and story content: School District: Newton ISD the treatment of Jewish people in Germany during Location: Newton World War II.” School(s) Involved: Newton Elementary School ______Setting: Library Reason Cited: Profanity/language Vampires Result: Retained Author: Perry, Janet and Victor Gentle Notes: None. Synopsis: A survey of the roles of vampires in leg- ______ends, pop culture, and the arts. What Happens When You Grow? School District: Waller Author: Richardson, Joy ISD Synopsis: Describes how bodies grow, develop Location: Waller and change. School(s) Involved: Fields Store Elementa- School District: Chisum ISD ry Location: Paris Setting: Library School(s) Involved: Elementary Reason Cited: Other Setting: Library Result: Use restricted Reason Cited: Sexual content Notes: “A mother …. Result: Use restricted stated that she didn’t like the book and didn’t want Notes: None. [her child] to read it. Books with high (6.0 and above) ______reading levels and some books with more mature subject matter have purple dots. The librarian put What’s in a Name a ‘purple dot’ on this book. Before being allowed to Author: Wittlinger, Ellen check out these books, students must have a let- Synopsis: Ten teens each narrate a vignette inter of permission signed by their parent.” volving a town war over the city’s name. Their stories intermingle with the teenage issues they face.

35 School District: Houston ISD School District: Port Neches-Groves ISD Location: Houston Location: Port Neches School(s) Involved: Barbara School(s) Involved: Port Neches Middle School Bush Elementary Setting: Library Setting: Library Reason Cited: Profanity/language; sexual content Reason Cited: Sexual con- Result: Banned tent Notes: None. Result: Banned ______Notes: Parent challenge. ______When Dad Killed Mom Author: Lester, Julius What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordi- Synopsis: Narrated alternately by a sixth-grade nary Day boy and his eighth-grade sister, this story describes what two children experience when their father Author: Cleage, Pearl murders their mother. Synopsis: Story of a woman who returns to her small hometown in Michigan, her lofty career School District: Leggett ISD dreams dashed by finding out she has tested pos- Location: Leggett itive for HIV. Being needed by family and friends, School(s) Involved: All and falling in love, help save her from despair. Setting: Library Reason Cited: Profanity; sexual content School District: Granbury ISD Result: Use restricted Location: Granbury Notes: None. School(s) Involved: Acton Middle School Setting: Library School District: Lueders-Avoca ISD Reason Cited: Profanity/language Location: Lueders Result: Retained School(s) Involved: Lueders Elementary Notes: “No formal challenge. Questioned by a par- Setting: Library ent.” Reason Cited: Profanity; violence/horror ______Result: Banned Notes: None. What My Mother Doesn’t Know ______Author: Sones, Sonya Synopsis: Teenage Sophie’s diaries, expressed Where Do You Think You’re Going, as poems full of revelations about young love and Christopher Columbus? (Video) lust, friendship, and family life. Author: Fritz, Jean School District: Abilene ISD Synopsis: Video version of a humorous biogra- Location: Abilene phy of the legendary explorer. An ALA Notable School(s) Involved: Franklin Middle School Book, School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, Setting: Library Booklist Notable Children’s Book of the Year, and Reason Cited: Sexual content American Bookseller Pick of the Lists. Result: Retained School District: Klein ISD Notes: None. Location: Klein School District: Klein ISD School(s) Involved: Benfer Elementary Location: Klein Setting: Library School(s) Involved: Hildebrandt Intermediate Reason Cited: Other Setting: Not indicated Result: Retained Reason Cited: Profanity/language; sexual content Notes: “Illustrations in this video show Indians Result: Decision pending without clothes.” Notes: “Committee has yet to determine status.”

36 The White Power Movement: Ameri- Setting: Library ca’s Racist Hate Groups Reason Cited: Sexual content Result: Retained Author: Landau, Elaine Notes: “We’re a campus of second- and third- Synopsis: Book details origins and development graders. This book is in the 4.9-7.2 range of Ac- of racist hate groups in the U.S., such as the Ku celerated Reader. The subject of a kiss within the Klux Klan and skinheads. Examines the history of story was questioned.” such groups, analyzing causes for the phenome- ______non of hatred and modern racist movements.

School District: Spring ISD Yolonda’s Genius Location: Houston Author: Fenner, Carol School(s) Involved: Twin Creeks Middle School Synopsis: Yolonda is smart, tough, and big for Setting: Library her age. Her younger brother Andrew doesn’t talk Reason Cited: Other/content very much, and has trouble learning to read, but Result: Use restricted. Books were placed creates beautiful music with the old harmonica behind the circulation desk for teachers to read, their father left him. When bullies destroy Andrew’s but not for student use. cherished harmonica, it falls to Yolonda to replace Notes: “The parent has not requested reconsid- the instrument and reveal her brother’s musical eration of instructional materials.” genius to the world. 1996 Newberry Honor Book, ______1996 ALA Notable Children’s Book. The Winner School District: Houston ISD Location: Houston Author: Baldacci, David School(s) Involved: Clinton Park Elementary Synopsis: LuAnn Tyler is pretty and smart, but Setting: Curriculum stuck in poverty and living with her abusive boy- Reason Cited: Other friend. A stranger offers her the chance to win $100 Result: Alternate book allowed million in the next lottery, and LuAnn ends up with Notes: Parent challenged. her life in danger. ______School District: Granbury ISD Location: Granbury Zap! I’m a Mind Reader School(s) Involved: Acton Middle School Author: Greenburg, Dan Setting: Library Synopsis: After a botched experiment involving Reason Cited: Sexual content; profanity/lan- electricity in science class shocks 10-year-old guage; violence/horror Zack, he discovers that he can read other peo- Result: Not indicated ple’s minds and hear their Notes: Parent questioned whether the book was thoughts – which leads to appropriate for seventh grade. chaos. ______School District: Joshua ISD The Wish Location: Joshua Author: Levine, Gail Carson School(s) Involved: North Synopsis: A girl is granted one wish by an old Joshua Elementary lady to whom she gives up her seat on the sub- Setting: Library way. She chooses to be “the most popular kid” at Reason Cited: Violence/ her school, with unexpected results. Explores what horror it means to popular and to learn who your real Result: Banned friends are. Notes: “The book was School District: Carthage ISD scanned and it was concluded that an immature Location: Carthage reader could get the wrong message while read- School(s) Involved: Libby Elementary ing the book. Example: page 22, ‘… I love to kill. Can’t kill now. Wait till tomorrow. Kill tomorrow! …’”

37 Index by School District

Abilene ISD Mai the Psychic Girl...... 26 El Campo ISD Stuck in Neutral ...... 34 Clyde CISD Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints....8 What My Mother Doesn’t Know...36 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Fort Bend ISD Allen ISD Stone...... 21 It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Don’t Step on the Crack!...... 15 College Station ISD Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Amarillo ISD Just the Two of Us...... 24 Sexual Health…………...... 24 The Figure in the Shadows...... 18 Colorado ISD It’s So Amazing! A Book About Mama puso un huero! O como se The Facts Speak for Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and hacen los ninos (Mommy Laid an Themselves...... 17 Families...... 24 Egg: or Where Do Babies Come Como-Pickton CISD Friendswood ISD From?).…………...... 26 I Know Why the Caged Bird The Adventures of Super Diaper Remember Me 2: The Return....30 Sings...... 22 Baby: The First Graphic Novel.....8 Athens ISD Conroe ISD Blubber...... 11 The Chocolate War...... 13 Alice Alone...... 8 Tangerine...... 34 Austin ISD Copperas Cove ISD Garrison ISD I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild’s Of Mice and Men...... 28 Crazy: A Novel...... 14 Pocket Book...... 22 Crandall ISD Graham ISD Junie B. Jones series...... 24 Princess in the Spotlight...... 29 The Giver...... 20 Barbers Hill ISD Crowley ISD Smart Mouth: Poetry & Prose....32 Sloppy Firsts...... 32 Black Book (Diary of a Teenage Granbury ISD Beaumont ISD Stud) Vol. III: Run, Jonah, Run...10 Vatos...... 35 Blue Star Rapture...... 11 Cypress-Fairbanks ISD What Looks like Crazy on an Forever...... 19 Crack: The New Drug Epidemic...14 Ordinary Day...... 36 Bellville ISD Cut...... 14 The Winner...... 37 Flowers for Algernon...... 18 Dangerous Environments...... 15 Hamilton ISD Big Spring ISD The Encyclopedia of Serial Snow Falling on Cedars...... 32 That Was Then, This Is Now.....34 Killers...... 17 Hays Consolidated ISD Bonham ISD Halloween ABC...... 20 Crazy: A Novel...... 14 It’s an Aardvark-Eat-Turtle World..23 The Perks of Being a Wallflower...29 My Puppy Is Born…………….....27 Boyd ISD Psychological Disorders Related Houston ISD Mara in the Morning...……….....26 to Designer Drugs...... 29 Beware of Kissing Lizard Lips....10 Stop Those Pants!...... 33 Psychological Effects of Cocaine El Leon, la Bruja y El Ropero (The Brownsboro ISD and Crack Addiction...... 30 Lion, the Witch and the Nathan’s Run…………………....27 Sinatra: A Life Remembered...... 31 Wardrobe)...... 16 Burleson ISD Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale...... 34 Mick Harte Was Here...... 27 Flipped...... 18 Darrouzett ISD What’s in a Name...... 35 Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD After the Rain ...... 8 Yolonda’s Genius...... 37 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Deer Park ISD Humble ISD Stone...... 21 The Kids’ Book About Death and The Goosebumps series...... 20 Carthage ISD Dying...... 24 Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark...30 Gib Rides Home...... 19 Denison ISD Huntington ISD Peter Pan...... 29 Amanda’s Wedding...... 9 Seek...... 31 Saving Shiloh...... 30 Dripping Springs ISD Joshua ISD The Wish...... 37 Harry Potter series...... 21 The Color Purple...... 13 China Spring ISD East Central ISD Zap! I’m a Mind Reader...... 37 The Boy Who Cried ‘Wolf!’...... 12 The Fighting Ground………...... 18 Killeen ISD In the Night Kitchen...... 23 Ector County ISD Flyy Girl...... 19 Introducing Michaelangelo...... 23 Alice on the Outside...... 9 From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun...19 Chisum ISD Cowboy Ghost...... 13 Klein ISD What Happens When You Grow?...35 Ella Enchanted...... 16 Alice in April...... 9 Clear Creek ISD A Light in the Attic...... 25 Memory Boy...... 26 A Child Called ‘It’: One Child’s Edgewood ISD What My Mother Doesn’t Know...36 Courage to Survive...... 13 My Father’s Scar: A Novel ...... 27

38 School District Continued

Where Do You Think You’re Going, Mission Consolidated ISD Spring ISD Christopher Columbus (Video)....36 The Silver Kiss...... 31 Hate Crimes...... 21 Kountze ISD Nederland ISD Hatemongers and Demagogues...21 Slave Day...... 32 Bridge to Terabithia ...... 12 The White Power Movement: Leggett ISD I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild’s America’s Racist Hate Groups...36 When Dad Killed Mom...... 36 Pocket Book...... 22 Stanton ISD Liberty-Eylau ISD Newcastle ISD Final Friends trilogy………….....18 Slot Machine...... 32 Faerie Wars...... 17 Texas Youth Commission Little Elm ISD Newton ISD Corsicana Residential Treatment Drugs...... ….16 The Well...... 35 Center In the Night Kitchen...... 23 North East ISD Black Talk: Words and Phrases from Stormy Night...... 33 The Story of the X-Men: How It All the Hood to the Amen Corner...... 10 Lueders-Avoca ISD Began...... 33 Changing Bodies, Changing Lives: The Beet Fields: Memories of a Northside ISD A Handbook for Teenagers...... 12 Sixteenth Summer...... 10 Draw Me a Star...... 15 Cut...... 14 Born in Sin...... 11 O’Donnell ISD Suicide (Opposing Viewpoints)...34 Both Sides Now...... 12 The Adventures of Super Diaper Crockett State School Cosmos Coyote and William the Baby: The First Graphic Novel.....8 Cosmos Coyote and William the Nice ...... 13 Orangefield ISD Nice ...... 13 A Dance for Three...... 15 Bless Me, Ultima...... 11 Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, Daughter of Fortune...... 15 Pasadena ISD and What I Learned……...... 28 Educating Esmé: Diary of a The Great Gilly Hopkins...... 20 The Period Book: Everything You Teacher’s First Year...... 16 Pearland ISD Don’t Want to Ask (But Need to Enchantment...... 17 Black Boy...... 10 Know)…...... 28 Every Time a Rainbow Dies...... 17 Letters from the Inside...... 25 San Saba State School Give a Boy a Gun...... 20 Plainview ISD A Rainbow of Gangs: Street The Innocents Within...... 23 Jack & Jill...... 24 Cultures in the Mega-City…...... 30 Leslie’s Journal...... 25 Pleasant Grove ISD Union Grove ISD On the Edge: Stories at the Brink....28 All American Girl...... 9 Nightjohn...... 27 The Perks of Being a Wallflower...29 Dear Nobody...... 15 Van Vleck ISD Plainsong...... 29 Song for a Shadow...... 33 Bless Me, Ultima...... 11 The Rag and Bone Shop...... 30 Port Neches-Groves ISD I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings...22 Secret Sacrament...... 31 Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale...... 34 Venus ISD When Dad Killed Mom...... 36 What My Mother Doesn’t Know....36 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Mabank ISD Rains ISD Secrets...... 21 Lostman’s River...... 25 Magic Fire...... 26 Vidor ISD McAllen ISD Patriot Games...... 28 The Beet Fields: Memories of a Iceman...... 22 Round Rock ISD Sixteenth Summer...... 10 McKinney ISD 1984...... 8 Waller ISD Eloise in Paris...... 16 Crazy: A Novel...... 14 Fat Camp Commandos...... 17 Mesquite ISD Shiloh...... 31 Vampires...... 35 Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code.....9 Seguin ISD Waxahachie ISD The Drowned...... 16 The Ox-Bow Incident...... 28 Of Mice and Men...... 28 Forever...... 19 Somerset ISD Wharton ISD Midway ISD Life Is Funny...... 25 Children, Violence, and Murder...13 Harry Goes to Day Camp...... 20 South Texas ISD Winnsboro ISD The Upstairs Room...... 34 Brave New World...... 12 Beware of Kissing Lizard Lips....10 Millsap ISD Stranger in a Strange Land...... 33 Sexual Politics...... 31

39 Index by Author

Alexander, Ruth Bell Cleage, Pearl Nathan’s Run…………………..27 Changing Bodies, Changing Lives: What Looks Like Crazy on an Gravelle, Karen with Jennifer A Handbook for Teenagers…….12 Ordinary Day...... 36 Gravelle Allen, Missy and Michel Peissed Codell, Esmé Raji The Period Book: Everything You Dangerous Environments...... …15 Educating Esmé: Diary of a Don’t Want to Ask (But Need to Anaya, Rudolfo Teacher’s First Year...... 16 Know)…...... …28 Bless Me, Ultima …………….....11 Cole, Babette Greenburg, Dan Angelou, Maya Mama puso un huero! O como se Zap! I’m a Mind Reader...……..37 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings...22 hacen los ninos (Mommy Laid an Egg: Guterson, David Avi or Where Do Babies Come From?)...26 Snow Falling on Cedars..……...32 The Fighting Ground………...... 18 Cole, Brock Harris, Robie H. Baldacci, David The Facts Speak for Themselves...17 It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing The Winner………………...... 37 Cole, Joanna Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Barrie, J.M. My Puppy Is Born…………….....27 Sexual Health…………...... 24 Peter Pan...……………………...29 Coleman, Evelyn It’s So Amazing! A Book About Bellairs, John Born in Sin.……………………....11 Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and The Figure in the Shadows…….18 Colfer, Eoin Families ...... ……………...24 Bender, David Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code...9 Haruf, Kent Suicide (Opposing Viewpoints) …34 Colgan, Jenny Plainsong...…………...…………29 Bennett, James W. Amanda’s Wedding …………...... 9 Heinlein, Robert A. Blue Star Rapture ……………....11 Connelly, Elizabeth Stranger in a Strange Land...... 33 Berger, Gilda Psychological Disorders Related Heynen, Jim Crack: The New Drug Epidemic…14 to Designer Drugs…...... 29 Cosmos Coyote and William the Black, Holly Cormier, Robert Nice ...... 13 Tithe …………………………...... 34 The Chocolate War …………….13 Hinton, S.E. Black, Jonah The Rag and Bone Shop...... 30 That Was Then, This Is Now.....34 Black Book (Diary of a Teenage D’Angelo, Laura Holmes, Ann E., Carol C. Stud) Vol. III: Run, Jonah, Run....10 Hate Crimes………………...... 21 Nadelson and Claire E. Reinburg Bloor, Edward Daley, Robert Psychological Effects of Cocaine Tangerine……………………...... 34 The Innocents Within………...... 23 and Crack Addiction...... 30 Blume, Judy Danziger, Paula Huxley, Aldous Blubber …………………………..11 It’s an Aardvark-Eat-Turtle World...23 Brave New World...…………….12 Forever …………………………..19 DeFelice, Cynthia Irwin, Lew Brennan, Herbie Lostman’s River...……....………25 Sinatra: A Life Remembered.....31 Faerie Wars .…………………....17 Doherty, Berlie Jordan, Sherryl Cabot, Meg Dear Nobody...... 15 Secret Sacrament...... …………31 All American Girl ………………....9 Duncan, Lois (editor) Keyes, Daniel Princess in the Spotlight ……....29 On the Edge: Stories at the Brink....28 Flowers for Algernon...…………18 Card, Orson Scott Fenner, Carol Klause, Annette Curtis Enchantment...... …...……………17 Yolonda’s Genius………...... 37 The Silver Kiss ………....………31 Carle, Eric Fleischman, Paul Kudo, Kazuya and Ryoichi Draw Me a Star….…………...... 15 Seek………………………………31 Ikegami Cart, Michael Frank, E.R. Mai the Psychic Girl……………26 My Father’s Scar: A Novel ...... 27 Life Is Funny ……………...... 25 Landau, Elaine Chbosky, Stephen Fritz, Jean The White Power Movement: The Perks of Being a Wallflower...29 Where Do You Think You’re Going, America’s Racist Hate Groups...36 Christiansen, C.B. Christopher Columbus? (video)…36 Lebert, Benjamin Mara in the Morning...……….....26 Galvez, José and Luis Alberto Urrea Crazy: A Novel …………….……14 Clancy, Tom Vatos…………………………...... 35 Lemieux, Michele Patriot Games…...……………...28 Gerstein, Mordicai Stormy Night………………...….33 Clark, Walter Van Tilburg Stop Those Pants!….………...... 33 Lester, Julius The Ox-Bow Incident…………...28 Gilstrap, John When Dad Killed Mom...…...... 36

40 Levine, Gail Carson Pelzer, Dave Steinbeck, John Ella Enchanted …………....…....16 A Child Called ‘It’: One Child’s Of Mice and Men...... 28 The Wish ……………………...... 37 Courage to Survive ..………...... 13 Stewart, Gail B. Levy, Elizabeth Pennebaker, Ruth Drugs………………………...... 16 The Drowned ………………...... 16 Both Sides Now………………...12 Stine, R.L. Lewis, C.S. Perry, Janet and Victor Gentle The Goosebumps series ……...20 El Leon, la Bruja y El Ropero (The Lion, Vampires……………………...... 35 Strasser, Todd the Witch and the Wardrobe)...... 16 Pike, Christopher Give a Boy a Gun ……………....20 Lowry, Lois Final Friends trilogy………….....18 Stratton, Allan The Giver …………………...... 20 Magic Fire………………...…...... 26 Leslie’s Journal……………….....25 Lynch, Chris Remember Me 2: The Return....30 Streissguth, Thomas Iceman..…………………...... …22 Pilkey, Dav; Hutchins, Harold; Hatemongers and Demagogues...21 Slot Machine………………….....32 and George Beard Taylor, Mildred D. MacKinnon, Bernie The Adventures of Super Diaper The Well………….....……...... …35 Song for a Shadow...... ………..33 Baby: The First Graphic Novel.....8 Teitelbaum, Michael Marsden, John Pinkwater, Daniel and Andy The Story of the X-Men: How It All Letters from the Inside...... 25 Rash Began...... …………………...……33 Mazer, Norma Fox Fat Camp Commandos …..…...17 Thomas, Rob After the Rain...... 8 Plummer, Louise Slave Day..………………..…...... 32 McCafferty, Megan A Dance for Three ………….....15 Thompson, Kay and Hilary Sloppy Firsts...... …………….32 Reiss, Johanna Knight McCormick, Patricia The Upstairs Room …………….34 Eloise in Paris …..……………...16 Cut…………………...... …………..14 Richardson, Jay Trueman, Terry McNaughton, Colin What Happens When You Grow?…35 Stuck in Neutral ………………...34 Don’t Step on the Crack!...... 15 Richmond, Robin Tyree, Omar Merriam, Eve Introducing Michaelangelo...... 23 Flyy Girl…………...…………...... 19 Halloween ABC………………....20 Rofes, Eric E. Van Draanen, Wendelin Millett, Kate The Kids’ Book About Death and Flipped ...... 18 Sexual Politics…………...... 31 Dying ………….....………...... 24 Vigil, James Diego Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds Roleff, Tamara L. A Rainbow of Gangs: Street Alice Alone…………………...... 8 Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints....8 Cultures in the Mega-City...... ….30 Alice in April ……………………...9 Rowling, J.K. Walker, Alice Alice on the Outside ………….....9 Harry Potter and the Chamber of The Color Purple..…………...... 13 Saving Shiloh………………...... 30 Secrets ……………………...... 21 Weaver, Will Shiloh………………………...... 31 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Memory Boy...... 26 Newton, Michael Stone ……………...... 21 Williams-Garcia, Rita The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers ...17 Harry Potter series.………….....21 Every Time a Rainbow Dies...…17 Opie, Iona and Peter Opie Schecter, Ellen Winick, Judd I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild’s The Boy Who Cried ‘Wolf!’.…....12 Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, Pocket Book...... 22 Schwartz, Alvin and What I Learned…...... 28 Orwell, George Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark...30 Wittlinger, Ellen 1984 …………………………...... 8 Sendak, Maurice What’s in a Name……………....35 Park, Barbara In the Night Kitchen …………....23 Woodson, Jacqueline Junie B. Jones series ...…...... 24 Shalant, Phyllis From the Notebooks of Melanin Mick Harte Was Here...... 27 Beware of Kissing Lizard Lips....10 Sun...... 19 Paterson, Katherine Silverstein, Shel Worth, Richard and Austin Sarat Bridge to Terabithia …………….12 A Light in the Attic ……………...25 Children, Violence, and Murder...13 The Great Gilly Hopkins ……....20 Smith, Will Wright, Richard Patterson, James Just the Two of Us...... …………24 Black Boy …………………….....10 Jack & Jill …………………….....24 Smitherman, Geneva WritersCorps youth Paulsen, Gary Black Talk: Words and Phrases from Smart Mouth: Poetry & Prose....32 The Beet Fields: Memories of a the Hood to the Amen Corner ...... 10 Ziefert, James and Mavis Smith Sixteenth Summer....…………...10 Snyder, Zilpha Keatley Harry Goes to Day Camp...... 20 Nightjohn ………...... …………...27 Gib Rides Home……………...... 19 Peck, Robert Newton Sones, Sonya Cowboy Ghost…………………..13 What My Mother Doesn’t Know....36