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Materials Challenged in Oregon 1979 Materials Challenged in Oregon 1979 - June 2013 Based on published reports from the American Library Association, the Oregon Intellectual Freedom Clearinghouse (OIFC) and other news sources L e Author/ v e Other Title & Publisher Date, Reason & Outcome Description of Material l This rap album was the first music work to be prosecuted under obscenity law. The Broward County (Florida) District Court decision was overturned & the album was As Nasty as They Wanna Be, Challenged at the Multnomah ruled not to be obscene in 1992 Luke Skywalker County Library in 1995. Reason: by the 11th Circuit Court of 2 Live Crew Records(recording) obscene and vulgar lyrics Retained. Appeals. A Challenged in 2011 in a public library by a individual. Reason: promotes sexual activity, smoking, Secrets of Boys, The and all drinking, taking drugs & other other titles by this author; high risk behavior for teens. Hailey Abbott writes romance Abbott, Hailey Harper Collins Requested removal; retained. novels for teenagers. YA Parents challenged the use of this program in a 12th grade class in Growing Up in the Age of Redmond 1994. Reason: does not A news program on AIDS and ABC News AIDS emphasize abstinence AIDS education A In this graphic novel, the Lone Wolves are Space Marines from the Space Wolf chapter. No one knows where they Challenged at the Multnomah come from or where they go, County Library in 2005. Reason: but when the soldiers of the concern that the content would Slovak Regiment of the Lone Wolves, Games contribute to hate, bad feelings and Imperial Guard need them Abnett, Dan Workshop. callous behavior. Retained. most, they appear. A Frame dealing with assisted suicide was removed from the display at the Woodburn Public Library in 1996 by an individual. Reason: inconsistency since frame dealt with case in the courts; all others were decided; one-sided ACLU of propaganda. Frame returned & Oregon Faces of Liberty (display) display continued as scheduled When Robert Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, Gilbert Shelton, and other Bay Area misfits first started producing "underground" comics in the '60s, they were considered to be highly innovative in their use of frank sexual themes. However, some 10 to 15 years before they commenced their explicit, often offensive Tijuana Bibles: Art and Wit in Challenged at the Multnomah cartoons, another genre of America's Forbidden Funnies, County Library in 1999. Reason: pornographic graphics was 1930s-1950s, Simon & sexually graphic, violent, and dying out, the so-called Adelman, Bob Schuster. racist content of book. Retained. "Tijuana Bibles." A A little girl fancies herself a witch. Facing a dreaded visit Challenged at the Malheur County with Aunt Ruby, she concocts Library in 1990. Reasons: witch first a brew to change the theme; undermines parental weather, then a potion to authority; dangerous potions are change Aunt Ruby. When I Know I'm a Witch, Henry given to someone in the book. neither works, some creative Adler, David Holt. Retained. problem solving is in order. E . A sequel to We Walk Alone. Challenged in a public library in Aldrich, a pseudonym for the 2008. Reasons: nudity. Request to prolific author Marijane We, Too, Must Love, Feminist change the cover to conceal the Meaker, expands on her Press at the City University of partial nudity. Retained with no journalistic portraits of lesbian Aldrich, Ann New York change. subcultures in and around York A Challenged at the Multnomah Oliver is going to be a big When the New Baby Comes, County Library in 1993. Reason: brother and doesn't like the Alexander, I'm Moving Out, child voiced disrespect for mother. idea one bit. For baby through Martha Charlesbridge Publishing. Retained. preschool. E Challenged at Crook County High School in Prineville in December The story of a boy growing up 2008. Reason: offensive language on the Spokane Indian & discussion of masturbation. Reservation who decides to Absolutely True Diary of a Removed from the 9th grade attend an all-white school. Part‑Time Indian, The. English Classes but returned to the National Book Award winner Alexie, Sherman Thorndike. library and NY Times Best Seller. YA Challenged at the South Prairie Trevor Hog believes a séance Elementary School in Tillamook in will be the perfect cure for his 1989. Reason: a medium and friend Dudley Stork's haunted Allard, Harry Bumps in the Night, Bantam. séances in the story. Retained. house. E Trevor Hog believes a séance Challenged at the Salem Public will be the perfect cure for his Library in 1990. Reason: too scary friend Dudley Stork's haunted Allard, Harry Bumps in the Night, Bantam. for children. Retained. house. E Trevor Hog believes a séance Challenged at the Multnomah will be the perfect cure for his County Library in 1990. Reason friend Dudley Stork's haunted Allard, Harry Bumps in the Night, Bantam. unknown. Retained house. E Challenged in 1992 at a Sweet Home elementary school library by a teacher and a parent group Trevor Hog believes a séance organized through a local church. will be the perfect cure for his Reason: instructs children in the friend Dudley Stork's haunted Allard, Harry Bumps in the Night, Bantam. occult. Retained house. E Ozzy's mother's death affects Challenged at the Multnomah him in many ways, but an County Library in 1992. Reason: unusual young woman he Ozzy on the Outside, material too explicit; may encounters while running away Delacorte Books for Young encourage sexual involvement. to New Orleans helps him face Allen, R.E. Readers. Retained. life again. YA Based on the stories of Raymond Carver, there are at least eight separate stories that crisscross, most about people who choose not to relate to the lives they are living. Seemingly Challenged at the Multnomah by design, none of the stories County Library in 1999. Reason: (nor the performances, for that violence, explicit sex, foul matter) have more impact than language, and classification as the others; this is a true mosaic Altman, Robert Short Cuts, (video). comedy. Retained and reclassified. film. A An uncompromising look at what the American Family Association believes are the consequences of the American Challenged at the Multnomah homosexual lifestyle. It Family County Library in 2004. Reason: features former homosexuals Association It's Not Gay, (video). anti-gay material. Retained telling their own stories. A An uncompromising look at what the American Family Association believes are the consequences of the American Challenged at the Multnomah homosexual lifestyle. It Family County Library in 2005. Reason features former homosexuals Association It's Not Gay, (video). unknown. Retained. telling their own stories. A Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1992. Reason: The second title in a series of stereotyping of gypsies & books for beginning readers Blaze and the Gypsies, promoting false impressions about featuring Billy and his pony Anderson, C.W. Macmillan. them. Retained. Blaze. First published in 1937. J Based on Roald Dahl’s book of the same name. The fox family Challenged in a public library in moves from their underground 2011 by an individual. Reason: home inside a tree. Mr. Fox Concern that the book may scare raids three nearby farms Anderson, Wes children & that the humor is no causing the farmers to try to dig & Noel appropriate for every child & the family out. The foxes dig Baremback Fantastic Mr. Fox; 20th family. Request to relocate from faster and tunnel under the (screenplay Century Fox Home children's to adult & label "dark farms stealing all the chickens, authors) Entertainment. comedy" Retained ducks, geese and turkeys. J Dreams of an inheritance turn into a nightmare for four innocent children. They are Challenged at the Douglas County locked in the deserted north Library System in 1990. Reasons: wing of the family mansion, the author's presentation of a girl beaten by a vicious liking a rape; misinformation about grandmother, tormented by a whether pregnancy can result; and menacing caretaker, starved Andrews, V. C. an implied incestuous relationship and left alone to wither – and (Virginia C.) Flowers in the Attic, Pocket. with her brother. Retained. perhaps die. A A unique book that combines Challenged at the Clackamas the words of a renowned County Library in 2000. Reason: African-American poet laureate Angelou, Maya biographical material included in and the primitive, modern & Jean-Michel Life Doesn't Frighten Me, book was not appropriate for paintings of a young Haitian- Basquiat Stewart, Tabori and Chang. children. Reclassified ENF to JNF American artist. JNF Challenged at the Eagle Point A familiar Norwegian folktale Elementary School library in 1984. about three billy goats who Three Billy Goats Gruff, Reason: the story is too violent for outwit a nasty troll that lives Anonymous Harcourt. children. Retained under a bridge they must cross. E Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1990. Reason: graphic description of sexual acts. Removed because not ordered by No information available about Anonymous Mariska II, Blue Moon Books. title but as part of large PB order book content. A Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1991. Reason: graphic descriptions of sexual acts. Removed because no specifically No content information Anonymous Mariska II, Blue Moon Books. ordered by title for the collection. available. A Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1991. Reason: graphic descriptions of sexual acts. Removed because it had not been specifically ordered by title for the Anonymous Caroline , Blue Moon Books. collection. No description available A Challenged at the Multnomah Human rights, environmental County Library in 1999. Reason: issues, and Brazil's drug Arrou-Vignod, South America: Brazil, (Our video provides a distorted and problem are featured in this Jean-Francois Developing World) (video). negative view of Brazil. Retained. program. A Samantha decides to try out her roller skates for the first time, despite her mother's admonition to wait.
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