Materials Challenged in Oregon 1979

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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. She likes Challenged in a public library in skating so much in the house 2012. Reason: concern that book that she hungers for the wide encourages children to misbehave, open spaces of the great engage in dangerous activities, & outdoors. She sneaks outside, not mind their parents & it and the fun begins. A New Samantha on a Roll , Farrar portrays parents negatively. York Times Notable Children's Ashman, Linda Straus Giroux. Retained Book for 2011. E Samantha decides to try out her roller skates for the first time, despite her mother's admonition to wait. She likes Challenged in a public library in skating so much in the house 2012. Reason: concern that book that she hungers for the wide encourages children to misbehave, open spaces of the great engage in dangerous activities, & outdoors. She sneaks outside, not mind their parents & it and the fun begins. A New Samantha on a Roll , Farrar portrays parents negatively. York Times Notable Children's Ashman, Linda Straus Giroux. Retained Book for 2011. E

When terrorists gun down Jenna Caddrick's fiancée, the only daughter of Senator John Caddrick is trapped in a desperate struggle to stay alive. With a pack of killers on her trail, Jenna plunges through Challenged at the Multnomah Shangri-La Station's time County Library in 2000. Reason: touring gates–and lands in Asprin, Robert pornography and children could London of 1888, just in time to and Linda Evans Ripping Time, Baen. access. Retained. meet Jack the Ripper. A

Challenged at Lake Oswego Junior High School in 2007. One of four optional books for a language arts bullying unit intended to teach eighth-grade students about situations and people they could be confronted by so they can think about and discuss how they would react. A parent requested removal of the book from the school Participating in a special after- because of "filthy profanities" school class with other troubled ranging from derogatory slang students, including a sensitive terms to sexual encounters and gay classmate, helps Susan, an Atkins, violence inappropriate for 13-year- overweight 10th-grader, Catherine Alt Ed, Putnam Juvenile. olds. Outcome unknown. develop a sense of herself. YA When a terrible accident partially disables Kevin and makes his mother Challenged at the Salem Public overprotective of him, his best Library in 1994. Reasons: friends Ryan and Mooch Kidnapping Kevin Kowalski, swimsuit scene; appropriate for decide that the only way to Auch, Mary Jane Scholastic. older readers. Retained. liberate him is to kidnap him. J

Challenged at the Cascade Middle School library in Eugene in 1992 by a parent. Reason: rape scene; concern that student readers may develop the perception that the sexual acts and values described Clan of the Cave Bear is the Clan of the Cave Bear, are the norm, and may be tried. first book in Jean Auel's series Auel, Jean Coronet. Removed. Earth's Children. J

Based upon the famous 1910 novel by Danish writer Martin Andersen Nexø this Academy Award winning film is about a Swedish widower and his son who emigrate to Denmark in the late 1800s to find work and a better life. What they find, Challenged at the Salem Public though, is something else Library in 1994. Reason: scenes of entirely. Based on the novel by August, Bille Pelle the Conqueror, (video). sexual violence. Retained. Martin Andersen Nexø. A

Challenged by a parent in two K-6 libraries in Redmond in 1994. Reason: depiction of Satin "as simply a bumbling mischievous Ten stories that recount the prankster rather than completely Devil's exploits, successes and The Devil's storybook; stories evil." Moved to the middle school failures, in Hell and in the Babbit, Natalie and pictures. Farrar library. world above. J

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1995. Reason: Balch combines imagination, Balch, Frederic Bridge of the Gods, Binford & racist; writer's tone "just plain fact and legend to write this Homer Mort. sick." Retained. fictionalized romance. A Challenged at St. Paul High School Library in 1989 by a parent The novel is told by Tish, a 19- of a middle school student. year-old African American in Reason: sexually explicit passages; Harlem in the 1970s. She is in profane and obscene language and love with Fonny and is offensive remarks about pregnant by him, but just about Christianity. Removed. The School everything has gone wrong for Board also voted to restrict any the couple. Fonny is in jail student younger than high school because he has been falsely If Beale Street Could Talk, age from checking out fiction from accused of rape because he is Baldwin, James Dial. the high school library. Removed Black. YA

Challenged at the Multnomah Here the author charts the rise, County Library in 2005 Reason: fall and revival of the burlesque the subject is degrading and dance. Baldwin’s guide is equal Baldwin, Burlesque and the New Bump- immoral, a bad influence on young parts how-to and sociological Michelle n-Grind, Speck Press. people. Retained. study. A

This is a book to explore the Challenged at the Multnomah alphabet through a playful story County Library in 1991. Reason: and quiz. How can we know promotes witchcraft & other what the witch put in her Humbug Potion: An A-B- satanic images to young mysterious pot? The chart tells Balian, Lorna Cipher, Abingdon. impressionable children. Retained. you how to solve those. J Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 2000. Reason: depiction of black people; requested item be given non- The classic story of a young Bannerman, Story of Little Black Sambo, fiction call number as historical Indian boy who meets up with Helen Applewood Books. item. Retained as cataloged. a tiger and turns him into butter. E

Discovered to be living in a gay relationship, Mr. Foster, a One of 17 books challenged at the sixth grade teacher, is Deschutes County Library in 1993 pressured to resign by parents. by a member of the Oregon Set in 1950s America, the story Citizens Alliance. Reason: the is told from the viewpoint of materials exist to promote Louis, one of Foster's pupils, What Happened to Mr. homosexuality and moral decay. whose personality growth the Bargar, Gary Foster?, Clarion Press. Retained. teacher has helped. YA

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1991. Reason: graphic violence, language and A collection of comic sexual content. Removed because adaptations of Barker's horror Tapping the Vein, Book 2, it had not been specifically ordered stories originally published in Barker, Clive Eclipse. by title for the collection. Books of Blood. A Challenged in a public library in Barlow, Daniel; 2011. Reason: pornographic Colin Tedford nature of the item may promote & Anne prurient interest. Requested A comics anthology edited by Thalheimer, removal or restricted to adults Daniel Barlow, Colin Tedford editors Big Sexy ; Offshore Comix only. Retained; not restricted. & Anne Thalheimer A This is the world's only daily comic strip set in a public library! Writer Gene Ambaum (the made-up name of a real- life librarian) and co-writer and artist Bill Barnes have been publishing since February 16, Challenged at the Multnomah 2002. Some of the stories are County Library in 2003. Reason: made up, some of them are concern that the book promoted based on real life, and some are Barnes, Bill & Unshelved: Volume One, prejudice against people with true stories sent to us from Gene Ambaum Overdue Media. disabilities. Retained. readers. A

Set on Mars during the early Challenged at the Multnomah part of the 22nd century. A Kaleidoscope Century, Top County Library in 1995. Reason: tailored virus allows a man to Barnes, John Science Fiction. ritualistic killing with sexual abuse. live for centuries. A

Challenged at the Salem-Keizer school libraries in 1992. Reason: references to the occult and witchcraft; suggestion that Witches, Pumpkins and children born on Halloween are Grinning Ghosts: The Story of able to see and talk with ghosts; This book explains many of the the Halloween Symbols. may lead them to the practice of common traditions and symbols Barth, Edna Houghton. witchcraft. Retained. associated with Halloween. J

This book offers help and Courage to Heal: A Guide for Challenged at the Douglas County encouragement to women who Women and Men Survivors of Library System in 1992. Reason: were sexually abused in Bass, Ellen Child Sexual Abuse, Collins. lesbian content. Retained. childhood. A

Challenged at the Multnomah The story of a boy's all- County Library in 1995. Reason: consuming guilt over the role Bauer, Marion On My Honor, Clarion Books. language and "gory details about a he plays in the death of his best Dane (book) boy dying." friend. YA

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1995. story theme not appropriate for children under the age of 12-13 years. Requested method to "code" The story of a boy's all- stories for older children. consuming guilt over the role Bauer, Marion On My Honor, Clarion Books. Retained. With no change. he plays in the death of his best Dane (recording) Retained. friend. YA One of 17 books challenged at the Deschutes County Library in 1993 Ex-Congressman Bauman by a member of the Oregon reveals with relentless candor Gentleman from Maryland: Citizens Alliance. Reason: the the alcoholic and homosexual The Conscience of a Gay materials exist to promote behavior that led to the ruin of Conservative, Arbor House; homosexuality and moral decay. his political career and Bauman, Robert William Morrow. Retained. marriage. A

Evacuated to the English Challenged at the Douglas County countryside during World War Library System in 1990. Reason: II, a fatherless family tries to evolution is referred to as a raise a baby squirrel that also Bawden, Nina Henry, Yearling. scientific fact. Retained. lost its home. J

Set in the Magdalen Islands of Quebec, this tells the story of 10-year-old Mario and his Challenged at a public library in older brother, Simon, for whom 2006. Reason: suggests that Mario would dare anything. devoted Muslim boys will commit When an interloper captures suicide, glorifies suicide, and is Simon's affections temporarily, insensitive to people with mental Mario's love turns to jealousy Beaudin, Jean Mario (video), Visionsmiths. disabilities. Retained and hatred. J

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 2004. Reason: In rhyming verse, a dog Beck, Carolyn Waiting Dog, Kids Can Press, violence portrayed not suitable for recounts its grisly dream of & Andrea Beck Ltd. children. Retained. devouring the postman. YA

Challenged at the Multnomah In rhyming verse, a dog Beck, Carolyn Waiting Dog, Kids Can Press, County Library in 2004. Reason recounts its grisly dream of & Andrea Beck Ltd. unknown. Retained. devouring the postman. YA

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1992. Reason: political propaganda that does not Documentary film presenting provide good information on gay the opinions of conservative lifestyles; questioned cataloging, doctors, scholars and ex-gays requested label for explicit on the gay liberation movement Beeson, Ty and content. Retained without label. and the damaging effects of the Jeannette Gay Agenda (video); The Cataloging corrected to produce "homosexual agenda" on Beeson Report consistent subject headings. American culture. A Challenged at the Salem-Keizer School District in 1992. Reason: contains spells and selections taken from adult books of black magic; considered a how-to book Poems describe spells thought on spells; states that Black Magic to produce instantaneous travel, Secret Spells and Curious is considered a form of religion; fabulous fortunes, good luck, Charms, Farrar, Straus & violates the separation of church revenge, and information about Beisner, Monika Giroux. and state. Retained the future. J One of 17 books challenged at the The Institute for Sex Research Deschutes County Library in 1993 was commissioned by the by a member of the Oregon National Institute of Mental Homosexualities: A Study of Citizens Alliance. Reason: the Health to conduct the most Bell, Alan P., & Diversity Among Men and materials exist to promote ambitious study of Martin S. Women, Macmillan; Simon & homosexuality and moral decay. homosexuality ever attempted Weinberg Schuster. Retained. anywhere in the world. A

A mysterious land mass suddenly appears in the Atlantic Ocean, an island on which only black people can survive. American blacks set sail to the island to begin a new life, only to see it sink again before they can reach the shore. On the return trip to America, the passengers draw up a list of principles called the Challenged at the Multnomah Afrolantica Legacies, defining Afrolantica Legacies, Third County Library 1999. Reason: how they want to reposition Bell, Derrick World Press. encourages racial hatred. Retained. themselves in American society. A

Encyclopedic discussion of Challenged at the Sandy Union sexual and emotional change High School library in 1984. during the teen years. It is Reason: "foul language and illustrated with relevant Changing Bodies, Changing disregard for a wholesome balance cartoons, photographs, Bell, Ruth, et al. Lives, Random House. about human sexuality." Removed. diagrams, and line drawings. . YA Encyclopedic discussion of sexual and emotional change during the teen years. It is Challenged at Multnomah County illustrated with relevant Changing Bodies, Changing Library in 1990. Reason unknown. cartoons, photographs, Bell, Ruth, et al. Lives, Random House. Retained diagrams, and line drawings. YA Encyclopedic discussion of Challenged at the Hillsboro Public sexual and emotional change Library in 1991. Reason: the 1980 during the teen years. It is edition did not contain information illustrated with relevant Changing Bodies, Changing on AIDS. Replaced with newer cartoons, photographs, Bell, Ruth, et al. Lives, Random House. edition. diagrams, and line drawings. YA Bellesiles (Emory University) believed gun-related violence was inextricably woven into the American past from its earliest days. Then he started studying county probate records as part of a project about the early American frontier. To his surprise, he found that for the years 1765 to 1770, only 14 percent of probate inventories Challenged at the Multnomah listed a gun. Further study County Library in 2003. Reason: convinced Bellesiles that Bellesiles, Arming America: The Origins has been discredited as a fraud. American gun culture began Michael of a National Gun Culture. Retained. only with the Civil War. A A story of Perez the mouse and Martian the Spanish cockroach. Winner of the American Challenged at the Multnomah Library Association's Pura Belpre, Pura Perez and Martina: A Puerto County Library in 1988. Reason: Belpre Award for noteworthy and Carlos Rican Folktale, Viking; the death of a mouse in the story South American children's Sanchez Warne. could upset children. Retained. books. E

A pine tree growing on the Challenged at the Multnomah edge of an abyss grew so County Library in 1995. Reasons: twisted that the lumbermen deals with destruction of plants & never cut it down, and it was animals; children may conclude able to provide shelter for an Bemelmans, OK to kill people book should be old stag. The author also wrote Ludwig Parsley, HarperCollins. burned. Retained. Madeline. J

A comic book series featuring a Challenged in a public library in New York team of superheroes August 2009. Reason: illustrations that is part of the Fifty State simulate nudity. Requested Initiative to provide such a relocation to the adult collection. team in every state that appears Bendis, Brian MichaelMighty Avengers, The; Marvel Retained in teen collection. in Marvel comics. YA

Challenged by parents at the Glenn D. Hale Primary School in Eagle Point in 1994. Reasons: teaches "occultic practices" of witchcraft Sorcerer's Scrapbook, & sorcery; advocates using a Berenstain, Random House Books for horoscope for guidance. Relocated A wizard tries to help a duke Michael Young Readers. to intermediate school. defy fate by locating a unicorn. J Set in the early part of the 1900s, the camera follows the activities of Pu, a young Swedish boy vacationing in the country with his family. Pu's father is a minister who is Challenged at the Salem Public struggling to make sense of his Library in 1999 Reason: violence life and reconcile with his wife, and sexual content in the video. who finds it increasingly Bergman, Daniel Sunday's Child, (video). Retained. difficult to live with him. A

Berkey takes us on a seven-day out-of-control grand tour of Tulsa's extensive seamy side. Challenged at the Salem Public Berkey leaves skid marks on Library in 1989. Reason: attitudes Oral Roberts University and condoning the drug scene that racist country clubs, and could be a bad influence to young rampages through the red-light Keys to Tulsa, Washington and impressionable people. district with quick pit stops in Berkey, Brian Square Press. Retained. striptease parlors and drug dens. A

Challenged in a public library in 2010. Reason: negative language Tired of being a celebrity, the and humor might not be tortoise challenges the hare to Bernstein, Dan Tortoise and the Hare Race appropriate for young children. race again, this time with the & Andrew Glass Again , The; Holiday House Retained intention of losing. E

Italy's best-known fantasy artist, and the illustrator of the bestselling comic book Nathan Never, gets a volume devoted to 140 of his remarkable paintings. Most famous for his fascinating and graceful Challenged at the Multnomah warrior women, Max Bertolini County Library in 2005. Reason: also crafts distinctive alien its portrayal of women encourages landscapes, all done with Revelations: The Art of Max objectification of and violence careful consideration for Bertolini, Max Bertolini, Paper Tiger. against women. Retained. contrast and chiaroscuro. A Life had made a loner of John Riley Shed. For him, the ways of man had always meant lying, cheating and stealing. Until one day when someone finally needed him. A young widow. Her three children. Together they faced a terrifying ordeal – a journey down the raging Buttermilk River. Destination: Challenged at the McMinnville Eagle Grove. Every moment, Public Library in 1998. Concern Shed was moving closer and Bickham, Jack Boat Named Death, expressed about violence in book. closer to a "civilization" that M. Doubleday. Retained. had destroyed him... A Challenged in a public library in Bienenstock, 2009. Reason: may promote illegal David & the Official High Times Pot drug use; lacks information about A comprehensive compilation editors of High Smokers Handbook; health effects of drug use. of information about marijuana, Times Magazine Chronicle Books Retained. its use and culture. A In the style of the previous Cross-Sections titles, each oversized spread shows a cutaway view of an area of a quintessential castle and is organized around a central Challenged in a school media theme (e.g., "Building the center in 1997. Reason: violence Castle," "Livestock and Castles: Stephen Biesty's and torture in depictions of the Produce," "Weapons and Biesty, Stephen Cross-Sections, DK Children. 14th century. Retained. Punishment"). YA

This novel provides Challenged at Multnomah County instructions, illustrated with Library in 1991. Reasons: it colorful cartoons, for spells, promotes witches and witchcraft. superstitions, recipes, Bird, Malcolm Witch's Handbook, Macmillan. Retained. gardening and glamour. J

Based on the story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings comments on faith and doubt as it explores the arrival of a winged old man who washes ashore into the lives of Pelayo Challenged at the Multnomah and Elisenda. They put him Un Senor Muy Viejo con County Library in 1993. Reason: first into a chicken coop Unas alas Enormes (A Very children & young adults who view (because of his wings), then on Old Man with Enormous may think it is OK to force women display and charge admission Birri, Fernando Wings) (video) to have sex with them. Retained. for the townspeople to see. A Challenged at the Salem Public Five brothers who look just Library in 1990. Reason: racial alike outwit the executioner by The Five Chinese Brothers, stereotypes demeaning to Chinese using their extraordinary Bishop, Claire Putnam Juvenile. people. Retained. individual qualities. E

In order to explain the war in Bosnia, Black presents a detailed history of the country and its neighbors from the time when clans of South Slavs settled in the Balkans and developed into individual Challenged at the Corvallis-Benton ethnic groups through the County Library in 2003. Reason: breakup of Yugoslavia, a Bosnia: World in Conflict, too disturbing for children. federation forged by Tito after Black, Eric Lerner Publishing. Retained. World War II. A

Sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been visited by faeries Challenged in a public library in since childhood, discovers that Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale ; 2008. Reason: Sexually explicit she herself is a magical faerie Black, Holly Simon & Schuster content; drugs. Retained creature with a special destiny. YA

Challenged at the Salem Public Library in 1993. Reasons: graphic In this mystery, a pair of men language; graphic accounts of who prey murderously on violence; lack of label warning women progress to kidnapping Walk Among the Tombstones, about content. Retained without the loved ones of drug dealers Black, Lawrence Phoenix Press. labeling. and demanding huge ransoms. A

New York Times journalist Burning Down My Master's Jayson Blair created a furor House: A Personal Descent when his bosses discovered he Into Madness That Shook the Challenged at the Multnomah had faked his reporting of a New York Times, Phoenix County Library in 2005 . Reason major story, plagiarizing some Blair, Jayson Books. Unknown. Retained. facts, inventing others. A

Challenged by a parent in a school Intended for young teenage district in 2012. Reason: sex girls featuring beauty, fashion, education unsuited for age; drugs. dating, makeup, accessories, School district removed it from advice, star profiles, and Bokram, Karen, Girls' Life, Girl's Life elementary & middle school quizzes. Ed. Acquisitions Corp (magazine) libraries. YA Echo is a girl who is convinced that she is not very pretty and the only thing she has talent in Challenged at the Multnomah is evil. But that proves to be County Library in 2002. Reason: wrong when series of tests in Block, sexual language & classification as love, friendship and death face Francesca Lia Echo, HarperCollins. YA. Retained. her. YA

Challenged Newberg Public Library in 1988. Reason: the book Recounts the origins and is too graphic; the topic negative history of devils and demons and degrading and the detail and their dealings with provided could encourage children humankind, including sorcery, Blumberg, Devils and Demons, Franklin to undertake the activities witchcraft, exorcism and devil Rhoda Watts Ltd. described. Retained. worship. Juvenile book. J Challenged at the Salem-Keizer School District in 1989. Reason: it is a "dismal tale of a young boy's inability to cope and his very inappropriate responses to the Tony Miglione is perfectly changes taking place in his life; happy in Jersey City and detrimental attitude towards a looking forward to going to child's natural development and junior high with his friends, so raises questions about sexual he is not at all pleased when he arousal that elementary school learns his father's invention has students are too young to made the family rich....With a experience and would leave them new school and burgeoning Then Again, Maybe I Won't, with the wrong attitude about the sexual yearnings to cope with, Blume, Judy Bradbury Press. opposite sex. Retained Tony is a troubled boy. YA

Challenged at the Hermiston Public Library in 1994. Reason: too explicit in alerting young Two high school seniors people to the consequences of sex. believe their love to be so Blume, Judy Fo rever, Pocket. Reclassified to adult collection. strong that it will last forever. YA

A high school boy tries to help a beautiful, suicidal cheerleader Gimme an H, Gimme an E, Challenged at the Sweet Home whose emotional disturbances Gimme an L, Gimme a P, Public Library in 1990. Reason: become increasingly more Bonham, Frank Scribner. sexual explicitness. Retained. evident. YA A semiautobiographical tale about a 9-year-old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War II. For a young boy, this time in Challenged at the Salem Public history was more of an Library in 1999. Reason: depiction adventure, a total upheaval of of children order, restrictions and preoccupied with sexual discipline, the liberating effect experiences. of the war on the women left Boorman, John Hope & Glory, (video). Retained. behind and other factors of war. YA

Combining folklore with Challenged at the Talent readings from such literary Elementary School in 1988. giants as Lewis Carroll and Reason: it "promotes witchcraft C.S. Lewis, the 15-book series Impressions s eries, Holt and secular humanism and lacks was used by 1,500 schools in Booth, Jack Rinehart. Christian values." Retained. 34 states. J Adoption of the series was challenged by conservative groups in the North Marion School District in Aurora in 1989. Reason: the series is "evil" and "objectionable. Adopted only for Combining folklore with grades 1-3 because of parental readings from such literary objections. Replaced by computers giants as Lewis Carroll and & the IBM program Writing to C.S. Lewis, the 15-book series Impressions s eries, Holt Read in 1991. Reason: poor was used by 1,500 schools in Booth, Jack Rinehart. reading scores. 34 states. YA

Challenged by parents in the Combining folklore with Lincoln County School District in readings from such literary 1991. Reason: many of the stories giants as Lewis Carroll and contain excessive violence and C.S. Lewis, the 15-book series Impressions s eries, Holt promote witchcraft & satanism. has been used by 1,500 schools Booth, Jack Rinehart. Retained. in 34 states. J

Combining folklore with readings from such literary giants as Lewis Carroll and C.S. Lewis, the 15-book series Impressions s eries, Holt Challenged in Klamath County has been used by 1,500 schools Booth, Jack Rinehart. School District in 1999. Retained. in 34 states. J

Combining folklore with readings from such literary giants as Lewis Carroll and Challenged in the Redland C.S. Lewis, the 15-book series Impressions s eries, Holt Elementary School in Oregon City has been used by 1,500 schools Booth, Jack Rinehart. in June 1991. Retained. in 34 states. J Combining folklore with readings from such literary Challenged July 1991 in the giants as Lewis Carroll and Reedville Elementary School in C.S. Lewis, the 15-book series Impressions s eries, Holt Aloha. The complaint was dropped was used by 1,500 schools in Booth, Jack Rinehart. after review. 34 states. J

Challenged in the Highland Hills Elementary School Library in Hermiston in 1982. Reason: concerns about the main character's activities, which include machine-gunning his Herbie Capleenies, Addison boring friends and making naked A little boy and his parents Bopp, Joseph B. Wesley. snow-women. Outcome Removed. reverse their roles. J

Expurgated by an apparent self- appointed censor at the Coquille Public Library in 1994 along with several other books. Most were mysteries and romances in which single words and sexually explicit Set in both California and passages were whited out by a Iowa, Mystery Ride follows the vandal who left either dots or solid lives of a divorced couple, their Mystery Ride, Harper; Knopf; ink pen lines where the words had daughter, friends, neighbors, Boswell, Robert Thorndike Press. been. and new families. A

Challenged at the Corvallis-Benton A movie that mocks the County Library in 2004. Reason: Batman movies and original Bat Thumb, (video); Image sexual references; not appropriate TV series by replacing the YA Bourla, David Entertainment for children. Reclassified to YA actors with thumbs. A

A story surrounding the investigation into a series of mysterious deaths. When Scotland Yard's standard police inquiry fails, Gustav, a "paranormal investigator," is called in. Gustav determines that the murderess is a vampire. Not only does Gustav have a mystery to solve but he also has an old score to settle. Using his supernatural skills, Gustav Bourne, Gustav: Paranormal Challenged at the Multnomah succeeds in trapping the Malcolm and Investigator, NBM Publishing. County Library in 2000. Reason: murderess and having his Ken Meyer (Graphic Novel) disturbing illustrations. Retained. revenge. A Lyrical prose pleads, in the voices of children, for fathers to show up for the little and big events in their lives, to share stories, to be constant and Boyd, Candy Challenged at the Multnomah loving, to hold the family Dawson & Floyd Daddy, Daddy Be There, County Library in 1997. Reason: together in tough times, and to Cooper Philomel. alcoholism & violence. Retained. see life through their eyes. E

This short story was challenged by a middle-school parent in 2007. Reasons: language & plot The Veldt combines sci-fi with inappropriate for students.; the the imagination and fleeting, story offers no consequences for yet intense, emotional Bradbury, Ray Veldt, Creative Education. the children's actions. Retained. responses of children. E

Stan Brakhage has made nearly 400 films over the past half Challenged at the Multnomah century. Challenging all taboos County Library in 2005 Reason: in his exploration of "birth, sex, scenes of an autopsy were death and the search for God," shocking and had no education Brakhage turned his camera on By Brakhage: Anthology, value; requested objectionable explicit lovemaking, childbirth Brakhage, Stan (video). scenes be edited out. Retained. and actual autopsy. A

Challenged at the Newberg Public Library in 1991. Reason: sexual pictures & book order information in the "sex" unit not suitable for children. Requested that access be restricted or the pages on sex be This book helped crystallize a Brand, Stewart, Next Whole Earth Catalog, cut out. Retained without way of thinking that protects ed. 2nd Ed., Random House. restriction. and honors the environment. A

This book answers an intriguing question: What if Santa Claus were just an ordinary fellow? On December 24th, he gets up, has breakfast, feeds the dog and cat, gets some presents from storage in the barn, hitches up a few deer, Challenged at the Albany Public and is off through various kinds Library in 1987. Reason: it of weather to visit various contains cursing, drinking and a kinds of homes, mildly Father Christmas, Random negative image of Santa Claus. complaining about his Briggs, Raymond House. Retained. hardships the entire time. E This book answers an intriguing question: What if Santa Claus were just an ordinary fellow? On December 24th, he gets up, has breakfast, feeds the dog and cat, gets some presents from storage in Challenged in at the Tigard Public the barn, hitches up a few deer, Library in 1990. Reasons: and is off through various kinds offensive pictures of Santa Claus of weather to visit various sitting on a toilet and drinking kinds of homes, mildly Father Christmas, Random alcohol; bad influence on children. complaining about his Briggs, Raymond House. Retained. hardships the entire time. J

This book answers an intriguing question: What if Santa Claus were just an ordinary fellow? On December Challenged by parents in a 24th, he gets up, has breakfast, Klamath Falls elementary school feeds the dog and cat, gets library in 1992. Reasons: some presents from storage in drunkenness. . The objectors the barn, hitches up a few deer, received but did not fill out the and is off through various kinds complaint form. The principal of weather to visit various removed the book and kept it kinds of homes, mildly Father Christmas, Random inaccessible to students in the complaining about his Briggs, Raymond House. office Removed hardships the entire time. J

Concentrating on lore gathered since World War II, Bronner has assembled an anthology of Challenged at the Douglas County what children really say, not Library System in 1992. Reasons: what adults wish they would book is crude; contains say. Bronner includes secret unwholesome jokes; would cause languages, jump rope rhymes, American Children's nightmares & hateful behavior. song parodies, games, taunts, Bronner, Simon Folklore, August House. Retained. tongue twisters, jokes and more. A

Story of two generations of the Earnshaw and Linton families as their lives and fortunes Challenged at a public library in intertwine in a complex web 2007 by a patron. Reason: an dominated by the passionate Wuthering Heights, unexpected rape scene that is not relationship between doomed Bronte, Emily Paramount Pictures (video). in the book. Retained lovers Heathcliff and Cathy. A Sheriff Bart teams up with Deputy Jim (Gene Wilder) to Challenged at the Multnomah foil the railroad-building County Library in 1993. Reason: scheme of the nefarious Hedley foul language makes video Lamarr (Harvey Korman). The unsuitable for young people. simple plot is just an excuse for Brooks, Mel Blazing Saddles, (video). Retained. a steady stream of gags. YA

Challenged at the Parkrose High School in 1987. Reason: violence, Brown's memoir is filled with offensive language, degrades sorrow for the many from his women.; students have no need to Harlem neighborhood who Manchild in the Promised understand life in the Black ghetto. died, victims of crime, poverty, Brown, Claude Land, Macmillan; NAL. Outcome Retained alcoholism and drug addiction. YA

Challenged at a public library in 2005 for concerns about sexually explicit content; requested age A romance focused on Words of Silk, Grand Central restriction or rating for under 18. relationship conflicts, with Brown, Sandra Publishing. Retained steamy love scenes. YA

In preparation for her 13th Challenged at the Little Butte birthday party, Karen and her Karen Kepplewhite is the Intermediate School in Eagle Point best friend Janet secretly study World's Best Kisser, in 1989. Reason: too mature for a best-selling adult book on the Bunting, Eve Houghton; Archway. elementary students. Retained. art of kissing. J

This video is a blend of fantasy and reality comprising two teenagers' flights of fancy. These two sisters ditch their tedious dad during a day trip and enter Challenged at the Multnomah a forest where younger Yvette County Library in 2002. Reason: (Heather Roheim) leads Odile violence; requested it be moved to (Karen Skloss) to a place Odile & Yvette at the Edge of the adult collection. Retained where, she says, their deepest Burke, Andre the World, (video). without change. wishes come to life. E

Challenged in 2008 by a parent of an elementary school student A visual guide to birds because of religious viewpoint. produced in collaboration with Burnie, David Bird: Eyewitness Book, DK Outcome unknown. the Audubon Society. J A crime comic about Mayo, a Japanese hit man who charges only $5 per whack because "that's all we're worth" he says. It follows his adventure through Malaysia and other parts of Asia where he combats Challenged at the Multnomah and eludes the Mob, Buronson, County Library in 2005. Reason paramilitary forces and the Ryoichi Ikegami Strain, Vol. 5, VIZ Media LLC. unknown. Retained. local law enforcement. A

Challenged at the Corvallis-Benton County Library in 2005. Reason: the subject may rob children of innocence if viewed without a parent's knowledge or before a In a conversational tone, parent is ready to talk to children Elizabeth describes the month- about the subject; requested by-month development of the Butler, Dori My Mom's Having a Baby, reclassification. Retained in the baby as well as the changes in a Hillestad Albert Whitman & Co. children's section. woman's body. E

Number 8 in a series (Princess Diaries) of novels about a New York city teenage girl who is the sole heir to a small European county. Each book is written in the format of humorous diary entries. In this one Princess Mia, a high school Challenged in 2007 by a public junior, has difficult decisions to library patron. Reason: sexual make when her boyfriend content; should be labeled to let decides to move to Japan for Princess on the Brink, Harper parents know about the sexual year, possibly because she will Cabot, Meg Collins content. Retained with no change. not sleep with him. YA

Retelling of a black tall tale from slavery times based on Challenged by a parent in a public versions anthologized by library in 2012. Reason: Langston Hughes and Arna inappropriate for children's Bontemps. Calhoun, Mary Big Sixteen; William Morrow section. Relocated. J

Challenged in a public library in A picture book with a peace 2010. Reason: may be too message about two soldiers Cali, Davide & Enemy: A Book About Peace; frightening for young children. facing each other across a Serge Bloch The . Schwartz & Wade Books Reclassified to parenting section battlefield E

Challenged at the Multnomah This is a collection of one- Do Not Disturb Any Further, County Library in 1992. Reason: panel cartoons by John Callahan, John Harper Perennial. unsuitable for children. Retained. Callahan. A Challenged at the Cornelius Public Library in 1998. Reason: sexual innuendo, depiction of violence This is a collection of one- Do What He Says! He's and elderly/handicap abuse. panel cartoons by John Callahan, John Crazy!!!, Quill. Retained. Callahan. A

Challenged in a public library in 2008. Reason: Sexual, Mammoth Book of Lesbian homosexuality, sexually explicit. A selection of new lesbian Cardy, Barbara, ed.Erotica; Carroll & Graf. Retained fiction from around the world. A

Challenged at the Salem Public This is an emotionally riveting Library in 1995. Reason: The movie that portrays the artist video with a sex scene was Paul Gauguin's discipline and Carlsen, available for children to check out. emotion in portraying life on Henning Wolf at the Door, (video). Retained. canvas A

Crisis looms when two teenage Challenged in a public library in cousins, one of whom is 1999. Reason: swearing in book; diabetic, are sent on a requested that title be removed weeklong canoe trip, their Between a Rock and a Hard from reading list for sixth- and family's traditional rite of Carter, Alden R. Place, Scholastic. seventh-graders. Retained. manhood. YA

Challenged at the Astoria Elementary School in 1995. Reason: profanity, sex and the portrayal of Christians as "liars, cheats and child molesters." Forrest Carter's memoir of Education of Little Tree, Retained, but access in classroom being raised by his Cherokee University of New Mexico & library restricted to children grandparents after being Carter, Forrest Press. with parental permission. orphaned at age 5. J

Expurgated by an apparent self- appointed censor at the Coquille Public Library in 1994 along with several other books. Most were mysteries and romances in which single words and sexually explicit passages were whited out by a vandal who left either dots or solid This is a tale of long-ago It's Only Love, Thorndike ink pen lines where the words had romance and present-day Cashdan, Linda Press. been. intrigue. A Castaneda wrote a series of Challenged at Multnomah County controversial books in which he Separate Reality; Second Library in 1999. Reason: Concern describes the teachings of Don Ring of Power; The Fire expressed about degrading Juan, a Yaqui sorcerer and Within" and other books by religions... "particularly Native shaman, and training he Castaneda, Castaneda, Washington American rites and beliefs." claimed to have in traditional Carlos Square. Retained. Mesoamerican shamanism. . A

Castaneda wrote a series of controversial books in which he Separate Reality; Second Challenged at Multnomah County describes the teachings of Don Ring of Power; The Fire Library in 2000 by the same Juan, a Yaqui sorcerer and Within" and other books by person with a request to reclassify shaman, and training he Castaneda, Castaneda, Washington out of religion.. Retained with no claimed to have in traditional Carlos Square. change. Mesoamerican shamanism. . A

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1994. Reasons: Lesbian Sex Book: A Guide library spending money on erotic for Women Who Love Women, materials that are accessible to A comprehensive guide to sex Caster, Wendy Alyson Books. children. Retained. and sex techniques for lesbians. A

Set in Manhattan before the first anniversary, this film Challenged in 2007 in a public traces the impact of September library by a patron. Reason: 11th on the lives of people not patrons should be informed that it directly affected by the attack. Great New Wonderful, The is about 9/11; recommended that it Publisher assigns the genre as (video), First Independent be reclassified from comedy to Comedy. Written by Sam Films; distributed by Vivendi drama and that . Reclassified as Catlin, directed by Danny Catlin, Sam Entertainment. drama and retained. Leiner. A

This novel deals with the death of an exemplary police lieutenant and the owner of a neighborhood candy store in an Challenged at the Multnomah apparent robbery attempt. Lt. County Library in 1990. Reasons: Tony Scanlon's investigation Suspects (Audio Recording), graphic language and sexual turns up more questions than Random House Value content with no label indicating the answers as he sifts through an Caunitz, William Publishing. explicit content. Retained. odd assortment of characters. A

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1991. Reason: Wandering away from his the book may make children feel mother, Harry the Cat gets bad; they'll associate not doing stuck in a tree until a fireman Throw a Kiss, Harry, something when asked with comes to his rescue. For baby Chalmers, Mary HarperCollins Children's Books. spanking. Retained. through preschool. J Challenged at the Newberg Public The politics of King David's Library in 2001. Reason: the book empire, life in an ancient was not appropriately classified as harem, and the private lives of "Inspirational Fiction". nobles of the Judahite court are Chamberlin, Ann Tamar, Tor Books. Reclassified. recreated. A

One of 17 books challenged at the Deschutes County Library in 1993 by a member of the Oregon A coming-of-age story about a Citizens Alliance. Reason: the pair of young men who meet by Dance on My Grave: A Life materials exist to promote chance during summer vacation Chambers, and Death in Four Parts, homosexuality and moral decay. and end up spending several Aidan Bodley Head; Harper. Retained. weeks together. YA

The principal at Madison Middle School in Eugene Students made the decision not to show students the first broadcast of this series in the fall of 1991. Reason: full, front view of Michelangelo's sculpture David in a story about a man Channel One attacking the nude figure with a News Channel One first broadcast hammer. News program for students

An innovative look at the life of fictional Mafia Capo Tony Soprano. We see Tony at work, Challenged at the Seaside Public at home and in therapy. Library in 2002. Reason: graphic Moments of black comedy language and violence; requested intersperse this aggressive, Sopranos: The Complete First that the video have a warning adult drama, with adult Chase, David Season, (video). label. Retained. language and extreme violence. A

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 2001. Reason: concern about the name of the musical group with several Cherry Poppin' Zoot Suit Riot; Soul Caddy, compact discs available at the Two CDs from this musical Daddies (audio CDs). library. Retained. group. A Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Challenged in 2007 by a public Vaccine library patron. Reason: concern Education Vaccines: Separating Fact that the information presented is Addresses questions parents Center from Fear ( video) out-of-date. Retained may have about vaccines. A Racism, homophobia and sexual molestation are brought Challenged at the Salem Public to the forefront in this novel. Library in 1992. Reasons: Childress highlights a three- profanity, equation of month period in the discrimination against African- interconnected lives of five Those Other People, Putnam Americans with that against people considered to be outside Childress, Alice Juvenile. homosexuals. Retained. the mainstream of society. YA

Challenged at the Cascade Locks School in 1990: Reason: because of a concern that content of some of the tests & surveys not appropriate for children, especially in younger grades. Restricted to Chilton Book Co. 85 Tests 85, Chilton Book Co. students in grades 9 - 12. Psychological tests. A

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1998. A small girl named Tammy information might mislead children explains why one should never Poisons Make You Sick, about medications. Discarded put strange things in one's Chlad, Dorothy Childrens Press. because of condition. mouth. E

A comedy movie about a Cholodenko, lesbian couple whose children, Lisa, Gary Kids Are All Right, The; Challenged in a public library in conceived by artificial Gilbert & Stuart Universal Studios Home 2011. Reason: homosexuality, insemination, bring their birth Blumberg Entertainment nudity Retained. father into their family life. A

Challenged at the Jefferson Middle The Christian Science Monitor School in Jefferson in 1990. is an international daily Reason: the Christian Science newspaper published Monday Christian Christian Science Monitor, Church uses the newspaper to through Friday. Founded in Science Monitor (periodical). spread their views. Retained. 1908 by Mary Baker Eddy. A

One of 12 titles challenged by a parent at Ackerman Junior High in in Canby in 1987. A materials review committee recommended all be retained. This title was 1 of 4 that the parent appealed in 1988. The first book in the Sword of Reasons: Could encourage young the Spirits t rilogy. The author minds to pursue the occult; writes about a superstitious, portraying the Bible as myth; primitive society of the future ridicule toward Christianity; where 13-year-old Luke has no Christopher, secular humanism indoctrination. reason to suspect that anything John Prince in Waiting, Macmillan. Retained. will ever change. YA Challenged in a public library in 2012 by an individual. Reason: homosexuality, sexually explicit. Patron concerned when keyword catalog search yielded this book because of one of the story titles. Mechanics of Homosexual Library staff instructed patron on Christopher, Intercourse: Stories, The. how to limit searches to children's Lonely Akashic Books materials. Retained. A collection of short stories. A

Challenged by a parent at the In this baseball tale, a boy gets Beaverton School District in 1989. some coaching from a The Kid Who Only Hit Reason: the book mentions the mysterious figure and then Christopher, Homers, Little, Brown Young occult, witchcraft and astrology. deals with the attention his Matt Readers. Retained. ability brings. J

Challenged at the Tillamook What is Scientology?: the County Library in 1998. Reason: a Church of comprehensive reference on concern about the book's function Scientology the world's fastest growing as a recruiting piece for a cult. An informational guide to International religion. Bridge Publications. Outcome unknown. Scientology. A

When Kayla's breasts prevent her from nailing a ballet part she deserves, her instructor advises plastic surgery. As Kayla contemplates her Challenged at the Corvallis-Benton options, the whole student body Dancing in Red Shoes Will County Library in 2006. Reason at her high school weighs in on Cirrone, Dorian Kill You, HarperCollins. unknown. Retained. the dilemma. YA

Series of short vignettes about a yound Latina girl, Esperanza, and her family growing up in Chicago. uses poems and stories to express thoughts and emotions about her oppressive Cisneros, Sandra House on Mango Street environment. A

The film follows some New Challenged at the Multnomah York City teenagers through a Kids, (video); Trimark Home County Library in 2000. Reason: day and a night of largely self- Clark, Larry Video. explicit sex and drug use. Retained. destructive activity. A Challenged at the Astoria Public Library in 1993. Reasons: refers to Indians as inferior to whites; will give children racist ideas; requested replacement with accurate & current history. History of Oregon, Roe Retained, but moved to basement A History of Oregon published Clark, Robert C. Peterson because of age & poor condition. in 1925 A

Clark, William Challenged in a public library in A guide and workbook & Sandra Luna Practice Makes Perfect 2012. Reason: incorrect answers & covering the basics of McCune Precalculus; McGraw-Hill comments. Removed. precalculus A

A collection of five films and TV movies by Alan Clarke, Challenged in 2007 at a public who was described by the library by a patron. Reason: London Times as "The greatest values; recommended viewing be British Filmmaker of his Alan Clarke Collection restricted or that a parental generation." Includes Clarke, Alan (Video) advisory label be added . Retained interviews and commentaries. A

A collection of films by Alan Clarke, who was described by Challenged at a public library in the London Times as "The 2008 by a patron concerned that it greatest British Filmmaker of Alan Clarke Collection promotes racism and is too violent. his generation." Includes Clarke, Alan (Video. Blue Underground Retained interviews and commentaries. A Named because she'd been born too soon after a contrived Challenged in the Jefferson Middle marriage, Sooner spent the first School Library in Jefferson in nine years of her life as the 1991. Reason: explicit sexual virtual slave of a bootlegging, Clauser, A Girl Named Sooner, content for middle school children. bible-quoting and embittered Suzanne Hamilton; Doubleday; Avon. Removed old woman. YA

Challenged at the Clatskanie Library District in 1991. Reason: concern about location in the In this novel, Cleary offers two children's section in view of the memoirs, the first devoted to chapter that suggests inappropriate her childhood, the second A Girl from Yamhill, sexual behavior by uncle toward following her from college to Cleary, Beverly HarperTrophy. niece. Reclassified to adult. the acceptance of her first book. J

Challenged at the Salem-Keizer It's time for Ramona to start Ramona the Brave, School District in 1993. Use of first grade, and all kinds of Cleary, Beverly HarperTrophy. Jesus' name in vain. Retained. things go wrong. J Challenged at the Baker City High School language arts program in 1999. Reason: concerns about two selections in the book. The Bluest Eye , by Toni Morrison, includes a description of a father raping his 11-year-old daughter. Being There , by Jerzy Koninski includes Clerc, Charles Seven Contemporary Short descriptions of sexual relations. A collection of short novels by and Louis Leiter Novels, Longman. Removed. well-known authors. A

Challenged at the West Linn- Set in a fictional Oregon town Wilsonville School in 2000. in the late 1960s, Cody's Reason: explicit depictions of coming-of-age novel is the teenage sexual encounters without story of Wade, Lorna and Jesse Cody, Robin (OR explanation of the consequences. – teenagers preparing to break author) Ricochet River, Knopf. Restricted. out of their small-town lives. YA

Challenged as a supplemental Set in a fictional Oregon town reading by parents in the North in the late 1960s, Cody's Clackamas School District high coming-of-age novel is the schools in 2005. Reason: profanity story of Wade, Lorna and Jesse Cody, Robin (OR and sexual content. Retained with – teenagers preparing to break author) Ricochet River, Knopf. parental notification (opt.in) out of their small-town lives. YA

Challenged by four members of the Portland American Family Association at the Ledding Library of Milwaukie in 1991. Reasons; the book is erotic & blasphemous with no socially redeeming value. A newspaper article quoted the group leader as saying he protested Retells the Biblical story of the book in response to an alert in Joseph, from his viewpoint, a newsletter of the Christian relating how he was sold into I am Joseph, William Morrow Coalition in Chesapeake, VA. slavery and became the Cohen, Barbara & Co. Retained. Egyptian Pharaoh's adviser. J

Retells the Biblical story of Joseph, from his viewpoint, Challenged at the Salem Public relating how he was sold into I am Joseph, William Morrow Library in 1991. Reason: too slavery and became the Cohen, Barbara & Co. graphic for children. Retained. Egyptian Pharaoh's adviser. E Challenged at the Ochoco Elementary School in Prineville in Eleven ghost stories from 1989. Reason: the book is "totally Germany, Japan, Turkey, Restless Dead: Ghostly Tales preoccupied with the macabre, Canada, Malta, China, Haiti, from Around the World, occult and demonic activity." Russia, Australia, Holland and Cohen, Daniel Archway. Retained. Italy. J

Challenged at the Carlton Elementary School in Carlton in 1991. Reason: a student was using this book to put "hexes" on another student; an American folk song about hate which includes swear words, is printed; the book is Recounts curses on families, available to children of any age. creatures, places, wanderers Retained, but placed on a reserve and ghosts. Also describes Curses, Hexes and Spells, shelf to be used with supervision amulets and talismans that Cohen, Daniel Everyman Ltd. of the librarian or teacher. provide protection. YA

Challenged at the Salem-Keizer School District in 1991. Reasons: objections to photo of a witch performing a curse; information on how to cast a spell; reference to Recounts curses on families, Christian occultists; belief that will creatures, places, wanderers result in gangs, crimes, & sadistic and ghosts. Also describes Curses, Hexes and Spells, groups who sacrifice animals. amulets and talismans, which Cohen, Daniel Everyman Ltd. Retained. provide protection. YA

When Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev travels to America to make a documentary, he not Cohen, Sacha Borat: Cultural Learnings of only generates strong reactions Baron, Anthony America for Make Benefit regarding his extreme Hines, Peter Glorious Nation of Challenged in a public library in prejudices, he also tries to meet Baynham & Kazakhstan; 20th Century Fox September 2009. Reason: and marry Pamela Anderson Dan Mazer (video) offensive. Retained (comedy). A

Cohen, Sacha Baron, Larry Charles, Jay Challenged in a public library in Roach, Dan 2010 with a request that it be Mazer & restricted to adults only; Reason: Monica not suitable for children. Not A comedy movie set in Levinson Brüno, Universal City restricted Hollywood. A When a thoroughly befuddled set of parents decides to inform their offspring how babies are made, their explanations (babies are grown from seeds, made out of gingerbread, squeezed from tubes like Challenged at the Multnomah toothpaste, brought by County Library in 1995. Reason: dinosaurs) are greeted with an drawings of adults in various explosion of giggles. Their Mommy Laid an Egg: Or, sexual positions. Requested children quickly grab paper and Where do Babies Come removal or reclassification. pen and proceed to set the Cole, Babette From?, Chronicle Books. Reclassified to Parenting Collection record straight. E

When a thoroughly befuddled set of parents decides to inform their offspring how babies are made, their explanations (babies are grown from seeds, made out of gingerbread, squeezed from tubes like toothpaste, brought by dinosaurs) are greeted with an Challenged at Clackamas County explosion of giggles. Their Mommy Laid an Egg: Or, Library in 2000. Reason: content children quickly grab paper and Where do Babies Come inappropriate for children. pen and proceed to set the Cole, Babette From?, Chronicle Books. Retained. record straight. For E When a thoroughly befuddledset of parents decides to inform their offspring how babies are made, their explanations (babies are grown from seeds, made out of gingerbread, squeezed from Challenged in a public library by a tubes like toothpaste, brought parent in 2007. Reason: graphic by dinosaurs) are greeted with illustrations; recommended that an explosion of giggles. Their Mommy Laid an Egg: Or, library staff inform patrons about children quickly grab paper and Where do Babies Come the content before checking it out pen and proceed to set the Cole, Babette From?, Chronicle Books. to them. Retained. record straight. E

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 2001. Reason: Hair in Funny Places; a book not appropriate for any age. How hormones affect young Cole, Babette about puberty. Red Fox. Retained. people during puberty. J

Laura and Howie are the social misfits at their summer camp. As part of a cruel joke, they are stranded on an island as the "goats." True to tradition, they are left naked, hungry and painfully alone. Not wanting to give the other campers the Challenged at the Salem Public satisfaction of finding them Library 1993. Reason: references helpless on the island in the to an unclothed adolescent girl morning, the two come up with The Goats, Farrar, Straus and and an adolescent boy looking at a a plan to disappear off the Cole, Brock Giroux. centerfold. Retained. island. YA Alpha's quarreling parents are transformed into a lump of coal and an egg by a family of mischievous imps. Being imps, they can't stand cleanliness, so Alpha is put to work dirtying the floor, the laundry and the Challenged at the Clatskanie dishes, and bringing the Library District in 1995. Reasons: a garbage in. However, Alpha devil's imp character & references comes up with a scheme to Alpha and the Dirty Baby, to casting spells; exposes children combat the imps and their dirty Cole, Brock Farrar, Straus & Giroux. to the occult. Retained. baby. J Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1988. Reason: This book examines the unique the photographs of a python anatomical features of an crushing and eating a chick would Indian python that enable it and upset and sadden children. other snakes to survive without Cole, Joanna A Snake's Body , Morrow. Retained. legs. J

Challenged at the Salem-Keizer School District in 2003. Reason: portrays a man with a gun to his Fifty-five humorous poems by Cole, William Oh How Silly!, Puffin. head. Retained. English and American poets. YA

Emily Culpepper loves talking to her friends. And so, being a witch of sorts, she miniaturizes them and puts them into jars so Challenged at the Springfield she can talk to them whenever Public Library in 1989. Reasons: she wishes. One by one, the ending is scary & unhappy; evil milkman, the postman and the Friends of Emily Culpepper, wins; witchcraft theme not readily plumber join her household in Coleridge, Ann Putnam Juvenile. identifiable. Retained. this way. J

Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family Collier, James during the Revolution when Lincoln and Challenged in a 6th grade language one son joins the rebel forces Christopher My Brother Sam is Dead; arts class in Sweet Home by a while the rest of the family tries Collier Putnam parent in 1992. Reason: profanity to stay neutral in a Tory town YA

Challenged at Multnomah County Library in 1990. Reason: too Horror novel about monstrous Cooke, John much violence, unsuitable for evil lurking at the bottom of a YA Peyton Lake, The, Avon. young adults. Retained. lake. ,

Challenged at the Salem-Keizer School District in 1992. Reason: the book is about a demon that A demon in the guise of a does magic, implying that magic pot outwits a greedy, witchcraft is good; may encourage rich man and brings wealth and children to dabble in witchcraft. happiness to a poor old fellow Coombs, Patricia Magic Pot, William Morrow. Retained. and his wife. J Events of the hijacking of a bus Challenged as an assigned ninth- of children by terrorists seeking grade reading in the Troutdale the return of their homeland are schools in 1989. Reason: portrayal described from the perspectives of teen suicide as well as the way of a hostage, a terrorist, an the U.S. Army and the Palestine Army general involved in the After the First Death , Liberation Organization are rescue operation, and his son, Cormier, Robert Pantheon. depicted. Outcome unknown. chosen as the go-between. YA

Fade follows the life of Paul Moreaux, a young boy growing up in early 20th century Challenged at the Multnomah America. Paul himself has County in 1992. Reason: learned from his similarly unsuitable for junior high inflicted uncle that he is cursed students; suggested with a gift that is not what it reclassification for use by senior seems; Paul has inherited the high students. Retained without ability to "fade" – to disappear Cormier, Robert Fade, Laurel Leaf. changes. into nothingness on a whim. YA

Challenged at the Clatskanie The path of a serial killer Library District in 1998. concern intertwines with that of a Tenderness, Delacorte Books about the suitability of material teenage runaway who cannot Cormier, Robert for Young Readers. for young people. Retained. resist his charm. YA

Challenged at Lake Oswego Junior High School by a parent in 2007. One of four optional books for a language arts bullying unit intended to teach eighth-grade students about situations and people they could be confronted by so they can think about and discuss how they would react. A high school freshman Reason: "filthy profanities" discovers the devastating ranging from derogatory slang consequences of refusing to terms to sexual encounters and join in the school's annual fund- The Chocolate War, Knopf violence inappropriate for 13-year- raising drive and arouses the Cormier, Robert Books for Young Readers olds. Outcome unknown. wrath of the school bullies. YA Rejected as a supplemental health book text book to be placed in the Eagle Point high school library in 1992 after complaints by parents. Reason: the book cited yoga and Transcendental Meditation as Wellness: Stress Management, ways to reduce stress but failed to Cottrell, Randall Dushkin. mention Christian prayer. Guide to stress-management. A

Set in 1807 Scotland. Sinjun Sherbrooke is bored with the London season, until she spies Challenged at the Multnomah Colin Kinross across a crowded Coulter, County Library in 1994. Reasons: dance floor – and offers to be Catherine Heiress Bride, Putnam. vulgar and pornographic. Retained. his bride. A

Challenged at the Multnomah Little Miss Muffet and Other County Library in 2001. Reason: Nursery Rhymes, Dutton disturbing topic for children in one Children's poetry and nursery Cousins, Lucy Juvenile. rhyme ( not identified). Retained. rhymes. E

When the ghost of a dead wife is unleashed on his household Challenged in the Springfield by a wacky clairvoyant, a man schools (1989). Reason: concern must struggle to meet the that the play encourages occult demands of all wives, both Coward, Noel Blithe Spirit , Grove. activities. Outcome unknown. dead and alive. A

Mark Manning has not escaped murder and mayhem by moving to Dumont, Wis., and taking over the local newspaper. Just as a regional exhibition of miniature furniture is about to begin, someone murders the Challenged at the Multnomah visiting expert. Suspicion falls Name Games, St. Martin's County Library in 2001. Reason: on the sheriff, a closeted gay, Craft, Michael Minotaur. homosexual content. Retained. so Mark helps out. A

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 2000. Reason: explicit sexual behavior and Adapted from the DC Comic of Craven, Wes Swamp Thing, (video). nudity. Retained the same name. A Based on the book by the same title. A suburban family takes a detour on trip through the southwest. Their car breaks down in an area originally used Challenged by a public library by the U.S. government for patron in 2007. Reason: sexually nuclear testing. They fight for Hills Have Eyes (video), 20th explicit content and violence. their lives against an inbred Craven, Wes Century Fox Retained clan of cannibals. A Providing a variety of chocolate recipes and delicious erotic games, this book also looks at the history and Challenged at the Multnomah symbolism of chocolate in all Pocket Book of Sex and County Library in 2002. Reason: its forms. Illustrated with Chocolate: What More Could graphic illustrations and original artwork and Craze, Richard a Body Want?, Hunter House. references to sex. Retained. photographs. A

Challenged at Bend Senior High School in 1995. Reason: the material in the book is too explicit for children to be reading, that "it is pornographic in itself. It is abusive emotionally and mentally An overview of child By Silence Betrayed: The to children and violates their rights victimization. Scores of Sexual Abuse of Children in for the school to be a safe molesters and victims are Crewdson, John America, HarperCollins. environment. Retained interviewed. YA

Removed from first-grade classes in the Grants Pass School District in 2009 after parent complaints about the way loggers are portrayed. Reason: the book showed loggers chopping down trees and stated that: “These people do not take care of the forest. They cut down huge trees. They drop trash on the ground" Help the Forest; Pearson- The publisher replaced the book Crosby, Rita Scott Foresman with a revised edition. A beginning reader J

Challenged at the Dalles-Wasco County Public Library in 198. Reason: the book promotes criminal activity in its depiction of In this book, Aleister Crowley Crowley, Magick in Theory and human and animal sacrifice. reveals his magic, rituals, Aleister Practice, Rutledge. Retained. recollections and opinions. A An obese boy and a disfigured girl suffer the emotional scars of years of mockery at the hands of their peers. They share a hard-boiled view of the world until events in their senior year hurl them in very different directions. A story Challenged at the Douglas County about a friendship with staying Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Library System in 1995. Reason: power, written with pathos and Crutcher, Chris HarperTeen. language. Retained. pointed humor. YA

Despite his natural athletic ability, T.J. has steered away from organized sports until his senior year, when Mr. Simet, a favorite English teacher, implores him to help form a swim team at the school. T.J. sees an opportunity to get revenge on the establishment and invites outcasts to participate on the team; he ends up with "a representative from each extreme of the educational Challenged at the Portland Public spectrum, a muscle man, a Schools in 2003. Reason: foul giant, a chameleon and a Crutcher, Chris Whale Talk, Laurel Leaf. language. Retained. psychopath." J

Despite his natural athletic Challenged by a parent at Lake ability, T.J. has steered away Oswego Junior High School in from organized sports until his 2007. One of four optional books senior year, when Mr. Simet, a for a language arts bullying unit favorite English teacher, intended to teach eighth-grade implores him to help form a students about situations and swim team at the school. T.J. people they could be confronted sees an opportunity to get by so they can think about and revenge on the establishment discuss how they would react. and invites outcasts to Reason: profanity ranging from participate on the team; he ends derogatory slang terms to sexual up with "a representative from encounters and violence each extreme of the educational inappropriate for 13-year-olds. spectrum, a muscle man, a Will be reviewed by a teacher giant, a chameleon and a Crutcher, Chris Whale Talk, Laurel Leaf. committee and the Board. psychopath." YA Challenged at the Multnomah Poetry with illustrations of the County Library in 1990. Reason author's poems of scary, cummings, e.e. Hist Whist, Dragonfly Books. unknown. Retained. ghostly things. E Cuozzo's main thesis is that, contrary to conventional wisdom, Neanderthal children matured far more slowly than their modern counterparts, Neanderthal longevity greatly exceeded that of modern humans, and it is their Buried Alive: The Startling Challenged at the Multnomah advanced ages which gave rise Truth About Neanderthal County Library in 2003. Reason: to their distinctive skull Cuozzo, Jack Man, Master Books. unknown. Retained. morphology. A

Challenged in a public library in Seventeen-year-old Rand's 2010. Reason: concern may pregnancy leads her to unravel encourage teens to engage in the mystery of her sister's sexual activities at too young an death and face her own more Cupula, Holly Tell Me a Secret ; HarperTeen age. Retained. hopeful future. YA

Curott uses 13 chapters to tell Challenged at the Multnomah the story of her personal County Library in 2001. Reason: encounter with the ways of the lack of merit and material Goddess, with insight into the Book of Shadows, Piatkus contains rituals and spells contemporary practice of Currott, Phyllis Books. accessible to children. Retained. witchcraft, or Wicca. A

One of 17 books challenged at the Deschutes County Library in 1993 by a member of the Oregon A primer for couples wanting Citizens Alliance. Reason: the basic legal advice on domestic Curry, Hayden materials exist to promote partnerships, parenting, and Denis Legal Guide for Lesbian and homosexuality and moral decay. finances, estate planning and Clifford Gay Couples, Nolo Press. Retained. more. A Developing an interest in Challenged at the Springfield homing pigeons leads to a Public Library in 1988. Reason: significant change in the life of profanity and the appearance of 11-year-old Ellis Hampton who the subject of prostitution. has been mute since he Cusack, Isabel Mr. Wheatfield's Loft, Holt. Retained witnessed his father's death. J The story follows the exploits of a crocodile as he sets off Challenged at the Multnomah one morning to find something County Library in 1987. Reason: to eat. He has a hankering for the book's sinister nature and the children from the nearby negative action of animals village. He broadcasts his Enormous Crocodile, particularly against children. desire to the other creatures of Dahl, Roald Caedmon; Knopf. Retained. the jungle as he passes them. E

Challenged at the Corvallis School District in 1990. Reasons: frightening & confusing; children The tale of a 7-year-old boy might believe any woman could who has a run-in with some Dahl, Roald Witches, Farrar; Penguin. be a witch. Retained. real-life witches. J

Challenged at the Dallas Elementary School library in 1991. Reason: book does not uphold ORS mandate that schools emphasize instruction in ethics & morality; Portrays degrading & demoralizing identity for a child; description of witch's face distasteful & insensitive; The tale of a 7-year-old boy undermines child's faith & trust in who has a run-in with some Dahl, Roald Witches, Farrar; Penguin. women. Retained. real-life witches. J

Challenged at the Beaverton School District in 1991. Reason: The tale of a 7-year-old boy witch characters & theme. who has a run-in with some Dahl, Roald Witches, Farrar; Penguin. Retained real-life witches. J Challenged at the Hillsboro Elementary School in 1991. Reasons: degrading to children; The tale of a 7-year-old boy disgusting and vile descriptions; who has a run-in with some Dahl, Roald Witches, Farrar; Penguin. Retained. real-life witches. J

Challenged at the Bilquist Elementary School in Milwaukee in 1993. Reasons: references to violence to children by parents & child and the occult. Retained; superintendent recommended The tale of a 7-year-old boy requirement for parent approval. who has a run-in with some Dahl, Roald Witches, The , Farrar; Penguin. Final outcome unknown. real-life witches. J Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1994. Reasons: graphic descriptions of witches'' The tale of a 7-year-old boy faces & feet and description of who has a run-in with some Dahl, Roald Witches, Farrar; Penguin. witches as child-killers. Retained. real-life witches. J

Challenged at the Douglas County Library System in 1992. Reasons: Verses featuring mayhem, Dahl, Roald and Roald Dahl's Revolting violent and lewd content. greed, betrayals and murder, Quentin Blake Rhymes, Puffin. Retained. from two gifted collaborators. J

2003 debut album for up-and- coming British rock act. Includes the singles "Growing Challenged at the Corvallis-Benton On Me," "Get Your Hands Off Permission to Land , Atlantic County Library in 2005. Reason: My Woman" and "I Believe In Darkness (audio CD). unknown. Retained. A Thing Called Love." A

A documentary of the history and attitudes of the opposing sides of the Vietnam War . The Challenged at the Driftwood film also endeavors to give Public Library in Lincoln City in voice to the Vietnamese people 1995. Reason: a scene filmed in a themselves as to how the war brothel is offensive; would "start has affected them and their Hearts and Minds, (video); an appetite for pornography". reasons why they fought the Davis, Peter Criterion Collection. Retained. United States. A Challenged at the Newberg Public Library in 1997. Reason: concern about the appropriateness of Louden Swain is a champion language for young adults. restler training for a state Davis, Terry Vision Quest, Laurel Leaf. Retained. tournament. YA Challenged at the Beaver Elementary School in Beaverton in 1992. Reason: drawings of nude artists' models; adolescents not mature enough for this type of material; may misuse it. Retained Originally published in 1970, with the inclusion of a brief this book shows people how to "awareness letter" informing recognize the basic shape to How to Draw What You See, parents that the book had been draw an object, no matter how De Reyna, Rudy (publisher unknown). discussed. much detail it contains. YA,J Challenged at the Tillamook County Library in 1993. Reasons: the main character shows disrespect after her husband's This is a tale of a widow who death; children might think that a tries to silence her husband's DeFelice, person can come back after death. ghost when a fiddler comes Cynthia Dancing Skeleton, Aladdin. Retained. courting. J

After stealing a dead man's boots, a wandering bagpiper Challenged at the Multnomah uses them to play a trick on an County Library in January 2001. unfriendly farmer but then DeFelice, Reason: disturbing for young finds the trick turned back on Cynthia Cold Feet, DK Children. children. Retained. him. E

After stealing a dead man's boots, a wandering bagpiper Challenged at the Multnomah uses them to play a trick on an County Library in May 2001. unfriendly farmer but then DeFelice, Reason: disturbing for young finds the trick turned back on Cynthia Cold Feet, DK Children. children. Retained. him. E

Alpha Bravo Charlie: A Challenged in a public library in Military Alphabet; Margaret 2009; Reason: political viewpoint; ABC book with a military Demarest, Chris L.K. Mcelderry Books may promote war. Retained theme E

One of 17 books challenged at the Deschutes County Library in 1993 Denneny, by a member of the Oregon Michelle, Citizens Alliance. Reason: the This is a second collection of Charles Ortlieb First Love/ Last Love: New materials exist to promote more than 20 stories of gay and Thomas Fiction from Christopher homosexuality and moral decay. fiction from "Christopher Steele Street, Perigee Books; Putnam. Retained. Street" magazine. A

A documentary film on the life Devor, and death of Kenneth Pinyan Robinson, aka Mr. Hands, an American writer and man who died of peritonitis due director. Challenged in a public library by to perforation of the colon after Produced by an individual in 2011. Reason: engaging in receptive anal sex Peggy Case. Zoo; ThinkFilm sexually explicit. Retained. with a horse. A

Challenged by parents at Monroe High School in 1979. Reason: the book's portrayal of male and Man's Body: An Owner's female anatomies was too explicit. Illustrated guide to a man's Diagram Group Manual, Bantam; Paddington. Removed. body A Challenged by parents at Monroe High School in 1979. Reason: the book's portrayal of male and Woman's Body: An Owner's female anatomies was too explicit. Illustrated guide to a woman's Diagram Group Manual, Bantam; Paddington. Removed. body A

DiCagno, Gabriella, Michelangelo: Master of the Challenged in a public library in Briefly examines the life of the Simone Bone Italian Renaissance, Peter August 2009. Reason: sexuality Italian artist and traces the and L.R. Galante Bedrick (nudity). Retained development of his art. J

Challenged by a parent in an elementary school library in 2008 Disney's Beauty and the for religious viewpoint and occult Adapted from the film by A.L. Disney Beast, Golden Books / Satanism. Outcome unknown. Singer J

Challenged by a parent in an elementary school library in 2008. Reason: culturally inaccurate; Disney's Pocahontas , Golden religious viewpoint and occult / Disney Books Satanism. Outcome unknown. Adapted from the film J

Challenged by a parent in an elementary school library in 2008. Reason: religious viewpoint and occult / Satanism. Outcome Disney Disney's The Lion King unknown. Adapted from the film J

A how-to book, from the Christian perspective, on discipline and child-rearing, Challenged at the McMinnville focusing on sibling rivalry, Strong-Willed Child Birth Public Library in 1994. Reason: hyperactivity, self-esteem and through Adolescence , advocates use of physical force to the most common mistakes Dobson, James Tyndale House. the point of abuse. Retained. made by frustrated parents. A

Techniques for helping men Challenged at the Multnomah and women accept County Library in 1992. Reasons: masturbation as a joyful and pornographic and promotes essential expression of their Dodson, Betty Sex for One, Harmony. homosexuality. Retained. sexuality. A

Challenged at the Salem Public Techniques for helping men Library in 1995. Reason: the book and women accept contains "nothing about the value masturbation as a joyful and of family and/or married life." essential expression of their Dodson, Betty Sex for One, Harmony. Retained. sexuality A Challenged at the Salem Public Nineteen stories, based on true Bear Stories , Garrard Library in 1990. Reason: violence. episodes, about different kinds Dolch, Edward Publishing. Retained. of bears throughout the world. J

Details of all the major Challenged at the Multnomah participants in WW II, County Library in 2001. Reason: including line drawings, cut- Bombers of World War II, omission of B-17 Flying Fortress. aways, photos and other Donald, David MetroBooks. Retained. relevant information A

Challenged at the Dry Hollow Elementary School in The Dalles in 1991. Reasons: inappropriate Nobody believes Harry's little words, such as "stupid", "spit", sister hates him, and confusion "hate"; actions such as throwing reigns while she discovers that frogs into frosting mix & spitting being a sibling almost always into pudding; negative description means mishaps and injustices, Dragonwagon, I Hate My Brother Harry, of sibling quarrels & tensions. but that her brother has his Crescent HarperCollins. Retained. good points. J

Challenged by a teacher at the Crook County Middle School Library in Prineville in 1989. A teenage runaway encounters Dragonwagon, Reason: excessive use of both love and loneliness when Crescent and To Take a Dare, Bantam; profanity. Restricted to 8th she decides to settle in a small Paul Zindel Harper. graders. Arkansas town. YA

How to design and draw fashion items made of one Wrap & Drape Fashion: Challenged in a public library in piece of fabric including History, Design & Drawing, April 2010. Reason: offensive shawls, head scarves, capes, Drudi, Elisabetta Pepin content. Retained sarongs and pareos. A

Historian, playwright and gay activist, Duberman was treated One of 17 books challenged at the for some 20 years by a Deschutes County Library in 1993 succession of psychotherapists by a member of the Oregon who attempted to "cure" him of Citizens Alliance. Reason: the his homosexuality. How he materials exist to promote gradually came to embrace his Duberman, Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey, homosexuality and moral decay. sexual orientation as normal is Martin Dutton. Retained. the focus of this autobiography. A

Suspicious and uneasy about Challenged at the Clarkes the atmosphere at her new Elementary School in Mulino in boarding school, 14-year-old 1989. Reason: explicit descriptions Kit slowly realizes why she and Down a Dark Hall, Laurel of dead spirits controlling the girls. the other three students at the Duncan, Lois Leaf. Retained school were selected. YA Challenged at the Salem-Keizer A teenager casually suggests School District in 2002. Reason: playing a cruel trick on the Killing Mr. Griffin, Laurel inappropriate language and plot. English teacher, but did he Duncan, Lois Leaf. Retained. intend it to end with murder? YA

Challenged at the Corvallis-Benton County Library in 1995. Reason: Vampire: The Complete unsuitable for children; objected Dunn-Mascetti, Guide to the World of the to "sexual practices of vampires." A compilation of stories and Manuel Undead, Studio. Retained. investigations of vampires. A

A portrayal of the seasonal changes that take place in a landscape of hills, pastures, ponds, trees and a large house, center stage for the natural cycle from January to Challenged at the Hall Elementary December. The family that School in Gresham in 1997. lives there is depicted in Dupasquier, Reason: picture of a naked little various activities indoors and Phillipe Our House on the Hill, Puffin. girl. Retained. out. E

Anna May Wong plays the part of Shosho, the Chinese scullery maid who overnight Challenged in a public library in becomes the toast of London as Dupont, E.A., Piccadilly (video); Image 2008. Reason: inappropriate for a the lead dancer at the Director Entertainment public library. Retained Piccadilly Club. A

Devastated to discover that Uncle Rob, his hero, is dying of AIDS, 12-year-old Gary, in Challenged at the Seaside Public need of advice and guidance in Library in 1993. Reason: his life, finds that it is Uncle promotes homosexuality. Rob himself who gives him Durant, Peggy When Heroes Die, Macmillan. Retained. strength to face the future. J

Challenged in a public library in May 2010. Reason: cover Dwarves Come Clean; Epitaph (sound objectifies women. Retained American punk rock group (musical group) recording) without changes recording. A Challenged at the Bend-La Pine A little witch girl makes a School District in 1991. Reasons: discovery about life without Edmundson, witch theme and necromancy. mother after a loss of temper Madeleine Anna Witch, Doubleday. Retained. clashes with a loss of patience. J

Challenged at the Douglas County Library System in 1997. Reason: magazine is filled with images Game reviews, news, previews, portraying sadistic and perverse codes, cheats, contests, guides, Electronic Electronic Gaming Monthly, themes...unsuitable for youth. Q&As, FAQs, screenshots, Gaming Monthly (periodical). Retained. release dates and more. YA

A collection of essays based on papers delivered at a world conference on pornography held in Los Angeles in August 1998. Representatives of the legal and academic communities (including many internally renowned scholars and First Amendment experts) and members of the adult entertainment industry join to Porn 101: Eroticism, cover a wide-ranging array of Pornography & the First Challenged at the Multnomah topics – from erotic films to Amendment, Prometheus County Library in 2002. Reason: phone sex, censorship to Elias, James Books. graphic illustrations. Retained. feminism. A

The CIA is so desperate to catch a serial killer that it blackmails a judge to free a former agent convicted of lying to Congress. The agent, Mike Culley, is told only to locate a KGB defector who had once Challenged at the Salem Public been his operative in Moscow Cold Cold Heart, Random Library in 1998. Reason: sadistic and is now implicated in a Elliott, James House (audio). violence. Retained. massive counterfeiting scheme. A Patrick Bateman is young, buff, tan, and filthy rich. He works at a powerhouse Wall Street firm. He can afford to do whatever he wants in an America that not only approves of his behavior, but ardently wants Challenged at the Multnomah to emulate it as well. There is County Library in 1991. Reason: one slight quirk in Bateman's book not appropriate for library well coiffed persona: He likes because of what it depicts about to rape, torture and murder Ellis, Bret Easton American Psycho, Vintage. human behavior. Retained. people. A

Describes how the culture of Challenged in 2008 by a parent. Trinidad is reflected in its Trinidad, Festivals of the Reason: religious viewpoint. festivals including Carnival, Ellis, Royston World Series, Gareth Stevens Outcome unknown Phagwa, Hosay, and Parang. J

Vic and his telepathic dog, Blood, struggle to endure in the aftermath of nuclear war. But when Blood sniffs out Quilla June – a girl who has come disguised as a boy to the womanless nuclear wasteland from an underground world (to which the population has fled from destruction) – Vic Ellison, Harlan Vic and Blood: The Challenged at the Salem Public discovers love while Blood and Richard Chronicles of a Boy and His Library in 1994. Reasons: violent; sees his own survival Corben Dog , St. Martin's Press. condones rape. Retained. threatened. A

Challenged at the Douglas County Library in Roseburg in 1989. Reason: nudity and violent photos Prelude to World War II, harmful to children researching Illustrated with color and B&W Elson, Robert T. Time-Life. the war. Retained. photographs A

Based on the New Challenged at the Multnomah International Version (NIV) County Library in 1991. Reason: Bible, this commentary public funds should not be provides comments, outlines Evangelical Commentary on expended on religious books. and introductions for each of Elwell, Walter A. the Bible , Baker Books. Retained. the sixty-six biblical books. A The author presents an Challenged in a public library by understanding of water Secret of Water: For the an individual in 2012. Reason: intended to encourage parents Children of the World , Concern that the book is and children to value, respect Beyond Words Pub.; Atria unscientific. Requested by and protect this most precious Emoto, Masaru Books, 2006. reclassified as fiction. Retained. resource J

Challenged in a public library in One of a graphic novel series 2008. Reason: inappropriate for (manga) set in the near future children; requested children under after a pandemic killed a large 18 be restricted from checking out portion of the population Eden: It's an Endless World!, materials marked 18+. Retained; creating world-wide chaos. Endo, Hiroki vol. 5; Dark Horse policy not changed. Translated from Japanese. A

Challenged in a public library in One of a graphic novel series 2010 with a request it be restricted (manga) set in the near future Endo, Hiroki, to adults only. Reason: sexually after a pandemic killed a large Kumar explicit. Item was reclassified from portion of the population Sivasubramanian It’s An Endless World! [Vol. young adult to adult, but not creating world-wide chaos. & Steve Dutro 6]; Dark Horse Manga, 2007 restricted. Translated from Japanese. A

Challenged at the Multnomah Entrialgo, Hablando en plata (Talking in County Library in 2005. Reason: Mauro Silver), Editorial Edinumen. unknown. Retained. Graphic novel. A

Challenged by a public library patron in 2007. Reason: sexual A guide to help deal with Middle School Survival content is inappropriate for changes in school, family, Erlbach, Arlene Guide, J. Walker middle school students. Retained social lives and bodies. A

Challenged at the Eugene Public Library in 1988. Reason: language, sexual nature and “perversity.” An anthology of horror and Etchison, Dennis Cutting Edge. Doubleday. Retained. fantasy stories. A

Equestrian Grace Maclean has a horrendous accident that leaves her and her four-legged friend damaged in mind, body and spirit. It then falls to a mythical horse whisperer, an Challenged at the McMinnville equine master who has the Public Library in 1997. Reason: ability to heal horses with Horse Whisperer, Delacorte sexual content and foul language soothing words and a gentle Evans, Nicholas Press. available to children. Retained. touch, to help. A Challenged at the Jordan Valley Longarm knows what needs to Union High School in 1987. be done and sets about doing Longarm in Virginia City, Reason: the book is “too sexually it – and blasting everyone that Evans, Tabor Jove. graphic.” Removed. stands in his way. A

On Becoming Preschool Challenged at a public library in Wise: Optimizing Educational 2006. Reason: following the Outcomes What Preschoolers theories of the author could lead Ezzo, Gary and Need to Learn, Parent Wise to malnutrition of infants. Robert Bucknam Solutions Retained. Practical advice for parents. A

Seth Strummar is a gunfighter trying to change his life. He's accepted the responsibility for his 5-year-old son, Lobo, and taken on a partner, Joaquin Ascarate. They attempt to Challenged at the Hillsboro Public rescue a friend who's been Library in 1995. Reason: violence, incarcerated by a crooked graphic sex, homosexuality, sheriff. To gain access to the manipulation and abuse of compound, Seth exploits the women, and a specific scene in love of a young girl who has Fackler, Road from Betrayal, M. Evans which a young boy watches his sex with the guards to distract Elizabeth and Co. father have sex. Retained. them. A

Faderman charts the evolution of the concept of the "lesbian" as a 20th century social construct and shows how love between women, once known at the turn of the century by Odd Girls and Twilight such terms as "romantic Lovers: A History of Lesbian Challenged at the Woodburn friendship" or "sentimental Faderman, Life in Twentieth Century Public Library 1992. Reason: friendship," came to be called Lillian America, Penguin. theme of book. Retained. "lesbianism." A

Challenged at the Tillamook Farrar, Janet County Library in 2000. Reason: and Stewart Witches' Bible, Phoenix the book teaches people how to Farrar Publishing. practice witchcraft. Retained. An in-depth look at Wicca. A

Challenged at a public library in 2007. Reason: a scene where a vendor shows pornography to an Fassbinder, G ötter der Pest (Gods of the adult. "Children could walk into Rauber Werner; Plague), Cinema World the room while you are watching Director Entertainment (video). it". Retained. A gangster film A This is the story of Barbara, a young woman who as a child was the victim of ritual satanic abuse at the hands of a sect led by her own grandfather. While Barbara's recollections are shocking and sometimes almost unbelievable, her story is that of a survivor, and she offers hope of recovery for other victims. The book's Challenged at the Multnomah foreword gives a brief history County Library in 2000. Reason: of satanic practice, and the Feldman, Gail Lessons in Evil, Lessons from entices child sadists and extensive bibliography serves Carr the Light, Dell. murderers. Retained. as a thorough reading list. A

Challenged at the Douglas County Library System in 1993. Reason: contributes to the delinquency of Cartoons of Michael Ffolkes, a Ffolkes' Cartoon Companion minors; promotes perverse sex; British cartoonist & illustrator to Classical Mythology, David denigrates families & religious who published in Punch, The Ffolkes, Michael & Charles PLC. values. Retained. Daily Telegraph & Playboy. A

Challenged at the Salem Public Library in 1999. Reason: book is overly erotic Reason: Removed Finch, Carol Apache Knight, Zebra. because of bad condition. A romance. A

Natalie realizes she must cut herself off from Tulip, whose lies, cruelty and need to control threaten to destroy them both. A haunting novel Challenged at the Multnomah about the sometimes Tulip Touch, Hamish County Library in 2000. Reason: malevolent nature of Fine, Anne Hamilton. violence and cruelty. Retained. friendship. For grades 6-9. E

Challenged in 2008 by a public library patron. Reason: offensive language and concern that A series of mysteries featuring children may emulate the Lady Grace Cavendish, a 13 Lady Grace Mysteries, character's inappropriate actions. year-old Maid of Honour in the Finney, Patricia Delacorte, Doubleday Retained Court of Queen Elizabeth I. J A Pulitzer Prize-winning author One of 17 books challenged at the examines four countercultural Deschutes County Library in 1993 communities: San Francisco's by a member of the Oregon Castro district, Rajneeshpuram Cities on a Hill: A Journey Citizens Alliance. Reason: the in Oregon, Sun City retirement through Contemporary materials exist to promote village in Florida and the Rev. Fitzgerald, American Cultures, Simon & homosexuality and moral decay. Jerry Falwell's parish enclave in Frances Schuster. Retained. Virginia. A

Challenged at the Hillsboro Public Library in 1989. Reasons: Objection to the violence & aggression illustrated; felt the author was telling children that hurting other is fun; book A group of children find that Bang Bang You're Dead , "persuasive in a violent way. while play war can be fun, real Fitzhugh, Louise Trophy Press. Retained. war is no fun at all. E

Challenged at the Douglas County Library in 1994. Reasons: foul A sequel to Harriet, the Spy language; depressing story. in which Sport is kidnapped Requested removal or by his long-absent mother reclassification to adult. Retained after inheriting millions of Fitzhugh, Louise Sport, Yearling. without change. dollars. J

A teenage girl must solve the Challenged at the Hillsboro Public mystery of her friends' deaths Nightmare on Elm Street Library 1992. Reasons: it was in after they are killed by a (Tales of Terror), Crestwood the children's department; could disfigured man who stalks Flood, E.L. House. cause bad dreams. Retained. them in their dreams. YA,J

Challenged at the Driftwood Public Library in Lincoln City in 1994. Reasons: sex orgies. Follett, Ken Big Needle, Zebra. Retained. An psychological action/thriller. A

A novel about homecoming and the South; Gayla Tyner is haunted by the South, what it means, has meant, and is becoming, as she struggles to Challenged in a public library in find her place as professor, Fortune, Growing Up Nigger Rich: A 2012 by an individual. Reason: mother, wife, and daughter. Gwendoline Y. Novel; Pelican racist & offensive. Retained A Challenged at the Lake County Library in Lakeview in 1992. Reasons: subliminal messages In this picture book, Fox poses would promote witchcraft and and answers a series of seduce children into witchcraft. questions about a witch Fox, Mem Guess What?, Gulliver Books. Retained. named Daisy O'Grady. E Based on a true story this film tells the story of a brother and sister who are kidnapped and Challenged in a public library by criminally exploited in a way an individual in 2012. Reason: that violently destructs a Franco, Michel, nudity, sexual explicit, violence. formerly close sibling writer & director Daniel & Ana ; Videomax Retained relationship. A

Fourteen-year-old Claire and her mother, Jane, are on their way across the country to visit Claire's grandmother. As they approach the family farm, Claire watches her mother become more and more anxious. This trip unlocks the key to the many questions Claire has about their past – including the identity of her father and the reason her mother never went back home Challenged at the Scholls Heights until now. Janey's Girl is a Elementary School in Beaverton in coming-of-age novel with a 2001. Reason: book is too mature twist: Claire's mother is the one Freisen, Gayle Janey's Girl, Kids Can Press. for elementary audience. Retained. who reaches maturity. E

Provides tips on how to create Challenged at the Keizer a haunted house at home and Elementary School in 1996. instructions for performing Friedhoffer, How to Haunt a House for Reason: illustrations in book magic tricks at a Halloween Robert Halloween, Tandem Library. portray magic tricks. Retained. party. E

Challenged in a middle school A realistic family drama in library in February 2010. Reason: which Thirteen-year-old offensive language and protagonist Samantha must contend with is not a good role model for a child the effects of her fathers getting help with her father's alcoholism on every aspect of Friend, Natasha Lush. Scholastic alcoholism. Retained her life. YA Seven little ducks need to learn to swim and dive. After a warning, being forced to stay up all night to practice and being called a sissy, one scared duckling learns to swim but Challenged at the Siuslaw Public can't dive. Father duck is so Library District in 1994. Reason: angry that the little duck can't Friskey, Seven Diving Ducks, David parent's love is conditional & dive, that he sends him away Margaret McKay. based on behavior. Retained. to live with the chickens. J

This video stars two highly intelligent dogs, who, together, save their young master and Challenged at the Multnomah his baby sister from Fritz-Nemeth, Dogs to the Rescue, Legend County Library in 2000. Reason: treacherous villains by carrying Paul, Films.(video). dark & scary content. Retained. the children to safety. E

Challenged at the Multnomah This is the first of a nine County Library in 2005. Reason: volume graphic novel series violence and sex warrant an 18+ about two young men who set or Mature Readers rating; about changing Japan (and the Fumimura, Sho requested reclassification and world) – one from above and Ryoichi rating. Retained in Graphic Novel (politics) and one from below Ikegami Sanctuary, VIZ Media LLC. collection, no rating added. (organized crime). A

Challenged at the Multnomah A story about siblings' backseat Gammell, How about going for a ride, County Library in 2002. Reason bickering during a Sunday Stephen Silver Whistle. unknown. Retained. drive. E

Challenged in a public library by A teenaged Iranian princess, a an individual in 2011. Reason: German-Canadian girl, and a nudity, sexually explicit, drugs & Cuban-Jewish girl from New suicide. Concern that it promotes York City become friends Dreams of Significant Girls; wrongdoing & provides teen girls when they spend three summers Garcia, Cristina Simon & Schuster with negative role models. Retained at a Swiss boarding school. YA

A ditty arranged and performed by musicians Challenged at the Multnomah Grisman and the late Grateful County Library in 2000. Reason: Dead guitarist Garcia makes a Garcia, Jerry use of the word "hell" on tape transition into picture-book and David There Ain't No Bugs On Me, that is written as "heck" in the text. For preschool through Grisman HarperCollins. book. Retained. grade 3. E Challenged at the Cedar Mill Community Library in 1988. Reason: the book portrays lesbian First published in 1982, this is love and sex as normal. The book the story of two teenage girls Annie on My Mind, Farrar, was temporarily removed and whose friendship blossoms into Garden, Nancy Straus and Giroux. then returned. Retained. love. YA

Challenged at the Salem Public First published in 1982, this is Library in 1990. Reasons: lesbian the story of two teenage girls Annie on My Mind, Farrar, love relationship between teenage whose friendship blossoms into Garden, Nancy Straus and Giroux. girls; morally wrong. Retained. love. YA

First published in 1982, this is Challenged at Multnomah County the story of two teenage girls Annie on My Mind, Farrar, Library in 1990. Reason: unknown. whose friendship blossoms into Garden, Nancy Straus and Giroux. Retained. love. YA

One of 5 books challenged by a member of the Oregon Citizens First published in 1982, this is Alliance at the Bend High School in the story of two teenage girls Annie on My Mind, Farrar, 1993. Reason: homosexual whose friendship blossoms into Garden, Nancy Straus and Giroux. content. Retained. love. YA

Challenged at Multnomah County Library in 1995. Reason: "if we First published in 1982, this is continue to be open to such ideas the story of two teenage girls Annie on My Mind, Farrar, (Lesbianism) what will become of whose friendship blossoms into Garden, Nancy Straus and Giroux. the 'family'..." Retained. love. YA

When Molly draws a picture of her family for her kindergarten class, Tommy jeers at her that no one has two mommies. At first she is angry and hurt, but with the support of her teacher and her loving parents – Mommy (her birth mother) and Mama Lu (her adoptive Challenged at the Multnomah mother) – she comes to accept County Library in 2004. Reason: her family. What helps her Molly's Family, Farrar, Straus promotes homosexuality. most is seeing many different Garden, Nancy and Giroux. Retained. kinds of families. E Challenged in the Sherwood, School District in October 2008 by Based on the 8th Century parents; Request to remove from Anglo-Saxon epic poem, the sophomore honors English Beowulf. The human condition reading list. Reason: concerns is seen through the eyes of about scenes describing torture and Grendel, the monster in the Gardner, John Grendel; Knopf mutilation. Retained. original poem. A

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1992. Reason: A photo documentary (with a the book dehumanizes women; generous mixture of posed Garfinkel, Sturgis, South Dakota: inappropriate values to promote shots) of the bikers who gather Martin Motorcycle Mecca, Zg Pub Co. in the library. Retained. in the Black Hills each August. A

Young viewers come face-to- face with the realities of unwanted pregnancies, STD's, and AIDS. They meet kids like Garner, Robert themselves who gambled O., Kirk Challenged at the Salem-Keizer everything for a moment's fling Cameron; Sex, Lies and the Truth, Focus School District in 1998. Reason: – and those who lost it all to a Chelsea Noble on the Family Films (video). unknown. Retained. deadly disease. YA

In this upbeat cancer story, Gaynes recounts "the most painful and exhilarating experience of my life,'' taking us through the wrenching Challenged at the Multnomah decisions she had to make County Library in 1995. Reason: starting with a choice between self absorbed last thoughts of lumpectomy and mastectomy. author could cause debilitating She accepted chemotherapy's depression/suicide in someone extra poundage and loss of How Am I Gonna Find a Man with life threatening situations." hair, as well as the loss of her Gaynes, Fanny if I'm Dead?, Morgan Press. Retained. husband. A Challenged at Multnomah County A Jew in Communist Prague, Library in 1997. Reason: This story tells of a Jewish Giardino, Nantier Beall Minoustchine inappropriate for children. family in post-World War II Vittorio Publishing. Retained. Prague. A

Challenged in 2007 by a public library patron who was concerned An original story drawing upon children might get the wrong idea tales about "Brother Juniper, a about their bodies and religion. friar and friend of St. Francis of The patron recommended that it Assisi" who, for example, gives be reclassified into a section for someone the robe off his back, children 10 years and older. even though he is naked Gibfield, Diane Brother Juniper, Clarion Books Retained underneath. E While the Black Death, smallpox and AIDS may seem to have little in common, Giblin draws parallels between them that are both striking and fascinating. The Black Death was often blamed on Jews, leading to hatred, mistrust, and violence against them. In much the same way, many people have blamed AIDS on homosexuals. The medical terms are clearly explained, and Giblin moves deftly from one historical highlight to another, Challenged at the Multnomah touching briefly, yet When Plague Strikes: The County Library in 2000. Reason: thoroughly, on the major events Giblin, James Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS, because the title appeared on a that make up the history of Cross HarperCollins. boy's booklist. Retained. each disease. E

Challenged in a public library in August 2009. Reason: glorifies maiming and killing and promotes Giffin, Keith intolerance of the physically and Benjamin disabled, parents, and police. A comedy-horror graphic Roman I Luv Halloween; Yokyopop Removed due to age and condition. novel. YA

Challenged at Lake Oswego Junior High School in 2007 by a parent. One of four optional books for a language arts bullying unit intended to teach eighth-grade students about situations and people they could be confronted by so they can think about and discuss how they would react. When Rob, the charismatic Reason: "filthy profanities" leader of the senior class, turns ranging from derogatory slang the school nerd into Prince terms to sexual encounters and Charming, his actions lead to Shattering Glass, Roaring violence inappropriate for 13-year- unexpected violence. Ages 12 Giles, Gail Brook Press. olds. Outcome unknown. and up YA Opening with the August 1970 release of the second LP by the Stooges (from whom sprang Iggy Pop), Gimarc's chronicle of the punk era is a day-by-day accounting of the formation (and demise) of dozens of punk rock bands, their recordings and performances. Punk was a do-it-yourself movement that gave voices to a disenfranchised population of Challenged at the Multnomah young rebels and nihilists. Punk Diary: 1970-1979, St. County Library in 1997. Reason: Gimarc emphasizes UK punk Gimarc, George Martin's Press. unknown. Retained. in this book. A

A retelling of a traditional Russian folktale. An older couple whose children have grown and gone away yearn for the company of a child. Challenged at the Multnomah Grandpa fashions a boy out of County Library in 2000. Reason: a piece of clay, and as the boy violent and graphic nature of dries out by the fire, Clay Boy Ginsberg, Mirra Clay Boy, Greenwillow. book. Retained. comes to life. E

Challenged at the Salem-Keizer School District in 1993. Reasons: includes 2 paintings that graphically depict a nude adult female & a nude male child. Not suitable for elementary children; exposes them to adult anatomy & contributes to a lack of personal modesty. Removed and replaced with another Spanish language Giron, Nicole El Agua, Lectorum. book on water. A children's book about water. J

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 2002. Reason: Stories about the lives, politics graphic sexual illustrations. and everyday preoccupations of Gittler, Ian Pornstar, Simon & Schuster. Retained. porn professionals. A Challenged in a public library by a parent in 2011. Reason: anti-ethic and violence. Book not culturally A folk tale that tells the story of appropriate for Native Americans Iktomi the famous "trickster" and not age appropriate for young according to Native American children. Requested that title be legend. The author is an award- Iktomi and the Berries: A relocated from children's picture winning author and illustrator Plains Indian Story. Orchard book section to juvenile section. of children's books, mostly Goble, Paul Books Retained Native American stories. J

A movie about a recently engaged woman whose life is thrown into turmoil after Challenged in a public library in confessing to her fiancé that Goldthwait, Sleeping Dogs Lie; First Look 2011. Reason: sexually explicit she once experimented with Bobcat Home Entertainment conduct. Retained. bestiality. A

An epic fantasy series featuring a vast cast of unique characters. The main character is a young man named Richard Cypher, a simple guide who lends a hand to a stranger seeking a nameless Wizard who left his land many years ago. Over the Challenged at the Eugene Public course of the series, Richard Library in 2003. Reason: graphic learns about his heritage while sexual and violent material. All but seeking to stop the evil that Sword of Truth Series, Tor the first book, Wizard's First Rule , others would unleash upon the Goodkind, Terry Books. were reclassified from YA to adult. world. YA

In the aftermath of the brutal murder of his father, a mysterious woman, Kahlan Amnell, appears in Richard Cypher's forest sanctuary Challenged at the Eugene Public seeking help . . . and more. His Library in 2003. Reason: graphic world, his very beliefs, are sexual and violent material. shattered when ancient debts Initially retained as YA. Patron come due with thundering appealed to next level & this title violence. First book in the Goodkind, Terry Wizard's First Rule ; Tor Books was also reclassified to adult. Sword of Truth series. YA

Challenged at the La Grande Central Elementary School in A story about prospectors The Horror of High Ridge, 1990. Reason: portrayal of running around town near the Goodman, Julius Bantam Books. gruesome violence. Removed. Sierra Nevada. J Challenged at the Salem Public Moment in Time, Time- Library in 2002. Reason: poor Gould, Judith Warner. writing and graphic sex. Retained. A romance/thriller. A

Challenged by parents at the A science fiction adventure Bolton Middle School of the West story in which a teenage boy Linn-Wilsonville School District in discovers a teleportation 1995. Reason: graphic ability that rescues him from Gould, Steven C. Jumper, Tor Books. homosexual rape scene. Retained. an abusive father. YA

A science fiction adventure story in which a teenage boy Challenged at Multnomah County discovers a teleportation Library in 1995. Reason: graphic ability that rescues him from Gould, Steven C. Jumper, Tor Books. homosexual rape scene. Retained. an abusive father. YA

Challenged at Multnomah County Library in 1995. Reason: graphic A science fiction adventure rape attempt. Requested removal story in which a teenage boy from collection, or at least from discovers a teleportation Young Adult collection. Retained ability that rescues him from Gould, Steven C. Jumper, Tor Books. with no change an abusive father. YA

The Vatican and One of 17 books challenged at the Homosexuality: Reactions to Deschutes County Library in 1993 This collection includes 25 the “Letter to the Bishops of by a member of the Oregon essays in response to the 1986 the Catholic Church on the Citizens Alliance. Reason: the letter from the Vatican’s Gramick, Pastoral Care of Homosexual materials exist to promote Congregation for the Doctrine Jeannine and Persons," Crossroad homosexuality and moral decay. of Faith about pastoral care of Pat Furey Publishing Co. Retained. homosexuals. A

In a remote town high in the Canadian Rockies, a mysterious and terrible killer is on the loose. Mutilated bodies appear in the snow, with no human footprints nearby. For Sam Hunt, this is especially terrifying because he has been Challenged at the Multnomah having blackouts, waking up County Library in 1996. Reason miles from home, with blood content includes serial killers and on his face and no idea what Gray, Muriel Trickster, Doubleday. mutilated bodies. Retained. he's been doing. A Set in an indefinite future, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Challenged in June 2010 in a Her Lover is an outrageous and Her Lover, The; Anchor public library. Reason: nudity, satirical film about love, sex, Entertainment; Tidemark sexually explicit, antifamily, food, power, murder and Greenaway, PeterEntertainment (video) occult, satanism. Retained revenge. A

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1989. Reason: In this book, one of the “Al” sexual references, the series about a passionate presentation of divorce as a nonconformist, Al finds her life Greene, matter of fact and derogatory complicated by her father's Constance I Know You, Al, Viking. remarks about friends. Retained. first visit in years. J

In this book, one of the “Al” series about a passionate Challenged at Newberg Public nonconformist, Al finds her life Greene, Library in 1997. Reason: explicit complicated by her father's Constance I Know You, Al, Viking. sexual verbal content. Reclassified. first visit in years. J

Beatrice Lacey loves nothing more than the family estate, Wideacrenot. Foiled in her hunger to own the estate by the 18th century laws of entail, Beatrice plots her father's Challenged in at the Umatilla death, knowing she can twist Public Library in 1990. Reason: Harry in any direction she Gregory, incestuous relationship between chooses, for her brother Philippa Wideacre, Simon & Schuster. sister & brother. Removed. harbors a dark, perverted secret. A

A step-by-step approach to Forgiveness Formula: How Challenged in a public library in confronting and letting go of to Let Go of Your Pain and 2008. Reason: sexually explicit the anger and pain caused by Griffin, Kathleen move on with Life. Marlowe. content. Retained trauma and betrayal. A

Nathan, a sophomore and the only child of an abusive, scripture-quoting, booze- Challenged at the Salem-Keizer guzzling father and a nearly School District in 2001. Reason: invisible mother, becomes homosexuality, drinking and smitten with Roy, a senior who Grimsley, Jim Dream Boy, Algonquin. graphic language. Removed. lives next door. YA

Challenged at the Multnomah A compilation from the author's County Library in 1992. Reason: syndicated comic strip Life in Groening, Matt Big Book of Hell, Pantheon. unsuitable for children. Retained. Hell. A Challenged by a parent at Sisters Middle/Senior High School library Scenes from Akbar and Jeff's in 1993. Reasons: lacks private lives using cartoons Akbar & Jeff's Guide to Life, educational value; disrespect for from the author's syndicated Groening, Matt Pantheon Books. authority; profanity. Retained. comic strip Life in Hell. A

Newlyweds King Lee and take a journey into the noisy jungle. The kings are greeted by wild animal families, but the royal travelers suspect that something more significant Challenged at the Multnomah awaits them in the trees. King County Library in 2005. Reason: & King soon discover that Haan, Linda de the subject of homosexuality and there’s no adventure more and Stern the mention of divorce are wonderful than starting a Nijland King & King, Tricycle Press. unacceptable. Retained. family of their own. E

Newlyweds King Lee and King Bertie take a journey into the noisy jungle. The kings are Challenged at the Multnomah greeted by wild animal County Library in 2006. Reason: families, but the royal travelers the subject of homosexuality is suspect that something more too complex for young people; significant awaits them in the requested reclassification and trees. King & King soon Haan, Linda de warning label. Retained in discover that there’s no and Stern children's collection, no label adventure more wonderful than Nijland King & King, Tricycle Press. added. starting a family of their own. E

Newlyweds King Lee and King Bertie take a journey into the noisy jungle. The kings are greeted by wild animal Challenged at a public library in families, but the royal travelers 2006. Reason: the books includes suspect that something more the "threatening mother and a significant awaits them in the son choosing a man to wed" and trees. King & King soon Haan, Linda de that "abuse in the book is discover that there’s no and Stern presented as acceptable." adventure more wonderful than Nijland King & King, Tricycle Press. Retained. starting a family of their own. E Molly, the 12-year-old narrator, and her brother Michael dislike their bratty 5-year-old stepsister, Heather, and resent the family move to an isolated converted church in the Challenged at the Astor country. The adjoining Elementary School in Astoria in graveyard frightens Molly, but 1990. Reasons: cover art too Heather seems drawn to it. frightening; realistic rather than Molly discovers that the ghost fictional writing style; of a child who died in a fire a questionable characterization of century ago wants to lure parents; supernatural; portrayal of Heather to her doom. Molly Hahn, Mary Wait 'til Helen Comes: A death in a hopeless way that could determines to save her Downing Ghost Story, HarperTrophy. frighten children. Retained. stepsister. J

Matt discovers a corpse and is Challenged at the Salem-Keizer convinced that his mother's School District in1994. Reasons: boyfriend, who are part of a graphic violence; occurrences of drug-packaging ring in which inappropriate parenting; too cocaine is stuffed into the Hahn, Mary The Dead Man in Indian frightening for elementary hollow heads of dolls, are Downing Creek, HarperTrophy. readers. Retained. somehow involved. J Challenged at the Auburn Elementary School in the Salem- Matt discovers a corpse and is Keizer School District in March convinced that his mother's 2010. Reason: not appropriate for boyfriend, who are part of a elementary students because of drug-packaging ring in which drugs and drug smuggling cocaine is stuffed into the Hahn, Mary The Dead Man in Indian activities in the book. Outcome hollow heads of dolls, are Downing Creek, Harper Trophy. unknown. somehow involved. J

Challenged at the Auburn Elementary School in the Salem- Matt discovers a corpse and is Keizer School District in March convinced that his mother's 2010. Reason: not appropriate for boyfriend, who are part of a elementary students because of drug-packaging ring in which drugs and drug smuggling cocaine is stuffed into the Hahn, Mary The Dead Man in Indian activities in the book. Outcome hollow heads of dolls, are Downing Creek, Harper Trophy. unknown. somehow involved. J

Using astrology, mythology and case histories the author discusses transformative contact between the Moon and Pluto, including practical information about flower Challenged in a public library in essences and techniques that Hades Moon: Pluto in Aspect June 2010. Reason: normalizes can help people handle Hades Hall, Judy to the Moon; Weiser parent-child incest. Moon energy. A The story of Ingemar, a 12- year-old working-class Swedish boy sent to live with his Challenged at the Multnomah childless aunt and uncle in a County Library in 1992. Reason: country village when his no indication on the cover that it mother falls ill. Swedish film Hallstrom, may not be suitable for children. based on a novel by Reidar Lasse, director My Life as a Dog, (Video). Retained. Jonsson. A Anita Blake is offered a million dollars to raise a 300-year-old zombie. Knowing it means a human sacrifice will be necessary, Anita turns the offer Challenged at the Multnomah down. But when dead bodies County Library in 2001. Reason: start turning up, she realizes graphic sex and violence not that someone else has raised Hamilton, appropriate for young adult. Harold's zombie – and that the Laurell K. Laughing Corpse, Berkeley. Retained. zombie is a killer. YA

Anita Blake may be small and young, but vampires call her the Executioner. Anita is a necromancer and vampire hunter in a time when vampires Challenged at the Douglas County are protected by law – as long Library in 2006. Reason: the book as they don't get too nasty. is violent, with aggressive sexual Now someone's killing content inappropriate for youth; innocent vampires, and Anita Hamilton, requested the book be reclassified agrees to help figure out who Laurell K. Guilty Pleasures, Jove. in Adult Fiction. Reclassified. and why. YA

As soon as his family moves in, 13-year-old Thomas senses something strange about the Civil War era house, which used to be a stop on the Underground Railroad. With the help of his father, he learns about the abolitionists and Challenged at the Salem-Keizer escaping slaves who kept the School District in 1992. Reasons: Underground Railroad running. the book projects fear by frequent While on his own, he explores references to evil and Satan; the hidden passageways in and presents a false perception of under the house, piecing clues history; causes loss of child's together in an increasingly Hamilton, security in school. Retained, dangerous quest for the truth Virginia House of Dies Drear, Video restricted to 7th grade and above. about the past. J A look into the much-debated One of 17 books challenged at the issue of homosexuality and Deschutes County Library in 1993 Christian sexual ethics. The by a member of the Oregon author raises difficult questions Citizens Alliance. Reason: the and then engages readers in Homosexuality: The Test materials exist to promote seeking answers based on the Case for Christian Sexual homosexuality and moral decay. Christian teachings of justice, Hanigan, James Ethics, Paulist Press. Retained. truth and love. A

Rampaging Fuckers of Everything on the Crazy Challenged at a public library in Three short satirical novels Shitting Planet of the Vomit 2010. Reason: vulgar and satanic focusing on the smugness of Hanson, Mykle Atmosphere ; Eraserhead content. mainstream culture. A

Challenged at the Obsidian Junior This is the story of a girl whose High School in Redmond in 198. dreams focused on her Reason: profanity and sexual achievements on the varsity content are not appropriate for track team until her father Harlan, the age group and objections to became seriously ill. Young Elizabeth Footfalls, Atheneum. the values portrayed. Retained. adult. YA

A hideous woman saves King Arthur's life when the Black Knight menaces him, but she demands a terrible payment: marriage to one of Arthur's knights. Noble Sir Gawain volunteers, and his reward, in Challenged at the Multnomah the grand way of fairy tales, is County Library in 1991. Reason: a beautiful wife when the Sir Gawain and the Loathly language inappropriate for woman is freed from an evil Hastings, Selina Lady, Walker Books Ltd. children. Retained. spell. J

Two 15-year-old female One of 5 books challenged by a classmates are loving and member of the Oregon Citizen's devoted "best friends," but the Alliance at the Bend Senior High time comes when they must ask Hautzig, School library in 1993. Reason: themselves a hard question Deborah Hey, Dollface, Random House. homosexual content. Retained. about their relationship. YA Expurgated by an apparent self- appointed censor at the Coquille Public Library in 1994 along with several other books. Most were mysteries and romances in which single words and sexually explicit In this romance novel, an passages where whited out by a adopted boy in need of finding vandal who left either dots or his birth parents for medical Confidences, Bantam; solid ink pen lines where the reasons uncovers the secrets Hayden, Penny Doubleday. words had been. of four women. A

Based on the belief that Challenged at the Multnomah humans come in all shapes and County Library in 2002. Reason: sizes. No matter how thick or the video might "reinforce thin they are, they can look negative self image … and good in clothes right for their Hazen, Gale Sewing for the Less than promote false message of perfect body. This video focuses on Grigg Perfect Figure, (video). body type." Retained. line, design, fit, ease and fabric. A

A sorcerer wants to bring his porcelain cat to life, so he orders his young apprentice, Challenged at the Bend-La Pine Nickon, to obtain a vial of School District in 1990. Reasons: basilisk blood from a witch – witch theme & blood of serpents. leading to a series of Hearn, Michael Porcelain Cat, Little Brown. Retained. adventures. J

Challenged at the Douglas County Library System in 1991. Reasons: profanity; smutty humor & This book includes fact and mention of condoms; not suitable folklore about pigs – told with Hedgepeth, for 4-Hers researching how to both scientific seriousness and William The Hog Book, Doubleday. raise hogs. Retained. humor. A

Challenged at the Cedar Mill Women and the Koran: The Community Library in 2001. Describes the brutality inflicted Status of Women in Islam, Reason: the book misinforms on women in the Islam religion Hekmat, Anwar Prometheus Books. about and attacks Islam. Retained. in the name of God. A The story of King David–the legendary warrior king of Israel, husband of Bathsheba, and father of Solomon. Now meet David as he really was: Challenged at the Salem Public the cocky Jewish kid, the Library in 1991. Reason: the book plagiarized poet, and Jewish mocks the biblical figure of King father. David tells his own David; depicts him as using story about growing up and obscene language. Retained. growing old, about men and God Knows, Simon & women, and about man and Heller, Joseph Schuster. . God. A

Tintin and his faithful terrier Snowy attempt to clean Challenged at the Multnomah Chicago of gangsters – a tale County Library in 1992. Reason: that includes trapdoors, Adventures of Tintin in disrespectful to groups that underground passages and America, Little Brown Young comprise a diverse society. falls from cliffs broken by Herge Readers. Retained. handy branches. J

Challenged at a public library in Aventuras de Tintin en el pais 2006 because of offensive del oro negro, Tandem stereotypical illustrations of a A Spanish-language version of Herge Library. Black man. Retained the Tintin series. J

Set in Guadalajara, the story of a mother who organizes her gay son's life by arranging a Challenged at the Multnomah marriage for him, then having County Library in 1993. Reasons: the new wife, their new baby, Hermosillo, Dona Herlinda and Her Son, open, candid expression of and his gay lover all move into Jaime Humberto (video), Vanguard Cinema homosexual behavior. Retained. her home. A

One of a series using a comic Challenged at the Multnomah format to portray strong female County Library in 2000. Reason: characters with a focus on Hernandez, Love and Rockets X, language and suggestiveness in relationships rather than on Gilbert Fantagraphics Books. material. Retained. traditional comic-book action. A

Challenged at the Multnomah Hernandez, Luba Conquers the World, County Library in 2000. Reason: Gilbert Fantagraphics Books. graphic violence Retained. A graphic novel. A One of 17 books challenged at the Deschutes County Library in 1993 by a member of the Oregon Citizens Alliance. Reason: the One Teenager in Ten: materials exist to promote A book of essays by gay and Testimony by Gay and homosexuality and moral decay. lesbian youth discussing their Heron, Ann Lesbian Youth, Warner Books. Retained. experiences and feelings. YA

Challenged in a public library in 2013. Reason: concern that item encourages and/or normalizes First live CD album released by Dangerous (audio book); child pornography and sexual stand-up comedian and satirist Hicks, Bill Rykodisc abuse. Retained Bill Hicks in 1990. Retained A

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1996. Reason: Presents various vampire concern about appropriateness legends from over the centuries for young children; caused while pointing up the Hinkley, James Book of Vampires, Franklin nightmares in first grader. impossibility of the existence W. Watts. Retained. of such a creature. E

When a young boy takes a bang to his head after getting into a fight, he meets a tramp, sitting on the road. The tramp, (Moe Nagic), sells a jigsaw puzzle to the boy. Moe explains how the Challenged at the Multnomah puzzle can come alive, and how County Library in 1999. Reason: you can visit the land of Troke. sexual references and excessive Now it is up to Stevie, to visit Trokeville Way, Knopf Books swearing. the old bridge and follow the Hoban, Russell for Young Readers. Retained. path that leads to Trokeville. E

Computer scientist Harry Benson undergoes experimental brain surgery to end his potentially dangerous seizures. Shortly after his operation, however, he flees the hospital and escapes to the Challenged at the Multnomah apartment of his girlfriend. The County Library in 1992. Reasons: experiment has backfired and the explicit nudity and violence. seizures are returning with a Hodges, Mike; Terminal Man, (video). Retained as a critically regarded terminal vengeance. Based on the Director Warner Home Video example of film science fiction. novel by Michael Crichton. A Both authors are sex and marriage therapists who have How to Make Great Love to a Challenged at the Multnomah come together to produce a Hodson, Philip Man, Grand Central County Library in 2002. Reason: guide on making love–for men and Ann Hooper Publishing. graphic sexual conduct. Retained. and for women. A

Fay was adopted when he was a baby and lives in the Netherlands. He knows only that his birth mother escaped the war in Bosnia and that he arrived in his adopted home with nothing more than a squeaky toy and a few clothes. His older sister Bing was adopted too, from China, where Challenged in a public library in she was found abandoned on Mother Number Zero ; 2012 by a parent. Reason: unsuited the street. A new friend Groundwood Books/House of to age, offensive language. persuades him to search for his Hof, Marjolijn Anansi Press Retained birth mother. J

Challenged at a public library in 2007 Reason: concern about its "corrupting influence on children and those of weak integrity." The author (Vera de Vries), Patron asked that it be replaced born in the Dutch East Indies, by something that promotes describes her upbringing in other philosophies. Removed by Holland and her life as a Hollander, The Happy Hooker: My Own the Library Board because it was prostitute and madam in New Xavier Story, Buccaneer Books. poorly wording and out-of-date. York City. A

The Coates Inn Restaurant in Cape Cod is about to go belly up when its attractive owner, Abby, jumps at a stranger's offer to help her – both in her kitchen and her bed. The Challenged at the Multnomah handsome chef claims to have County Library in 2004. Reason an aphrodisiac menu that her Holly, Emma Cooking Up a Storm, Cheek. unknown. Retained. patrons won't be able to resist. A

A boy named Brad explores the Vincent van Gogh: Challenged in a public library in ups and downs of Van Gogh's Holub, Joan and Sunflowers and Swirly Stars; June 2010. Reason: inappropriate life in this colorful report. Full- Brad Bucks Grosset & Dunlap for children color illustrations. J Challenged at the Hillsboro Public This book presents Library in 1988 by a patron. geographical, social and Reason: the Mandelas and the biographical information about Hoobler, African National Congress are the lives of Nelson and Winnie Dorothy and Nelson and Winnie Mandela, Communist-backed and advocate Mandela and racial conflict in Thomas Hoobler Franklin Watts. violence. Retained. South Africa. J

Challenged at the Sweetbriar Three friends are faced with the Elementary School in Troutdale in dilemma of how to dispose of Seventeen Gerbils of Class 1991. Reason: use of profanity. the seventeen gerbils in their Hooks, William 4A, Putnam. Retained. classroom. J

Challenged at the Multnomah A collection of poems and County Library in 1994. Reasons: short essays on poetics Postmodern American includes graphic poems with representing the movements of Poetry: A Norton Anthology, sexual references & vulgar words. American avant-garde poetry Hoover, Paul Norton & Co. Retained. written after 1945. A

Challenged in 2010 as used in A chronicle of thirty years of Freshman honors English class Afghan history and a deeply The Dalles Wahtonka HS in The moving story of family, Thousand Splendid Summers, Dalles. Reason: sex and brutality friendship, faith, and the Hosseni, Khaleid ; Riverhead Books towards women. Retained salvation to be found in love. A

This guide contains photos and data on dozens of topics from arrowheads to pottery, baskets, beadwork, clothing, toys, weavings and jewelry. It North American Indian Challenged at the Douglas County also includes a directory of Artifacts: A Collector's Library System in 1992. Reason: dealers, arranged by state. Identification & Value Guide, dehumanizes Native Americans. Most items shown include Hothem, Lar kp books. Retained. their approximate value. A

The story of Ruth Anne Boatwright--called Bone by her family--a South Carolina bastard with an annotated birth certificate to tell the tale. Bone's story is inseparable Challenged at the Multnomah from that of her family, the County Library in 2006. Reason: notorious Boatwright clan. This the video may encourage tender yet disturbing tale is a Houston, Bastard Out of Carolina, pedophilia, sexual abuse and harrowing story of family Angelica (video), Winstar violence. Retained. violence and incest. A One of 12 titles challenged by a parent at Ackerman Junior High in in Canby in 1987. A materials review committee recommended all be retained. This title was 1 of Troubled by her younger 4 that the parent appealed in sister's death and her parents' 1988. Reasons: Could encourage separation, 16-year-old Aflie young minds to pursue the occult; makes friends with a college portraying the Bible as myth; student named Kurt who helps ridicule toward Christianity; her decide what she really God, the Universe, and Hot secular humanism indoctrination. believes about life, death, Howe, Norma Fudge Sundaes, Avon Books. Retained. religion and reason. YA In this interview, Hubbard explains his basic beliefs of what we, as human beings and L. Ron Hubbard: An Challenged at the Multnomah spiritual beings, are; what we Introduction to Scientology, County Library in 1992. Reason: are doing here; where we are Hubbard, L. Ron (video). non-factual material. Retained. going. A

Hughes, Challenged at the Multnomah A1969 volume of captions and Langston, County Library in 2004. Reason pictures that mocks stereotypes Arouni Black Misery, P. S. Eriksson. unknown. Reclassified. and delivers hard truths. J

Challenged at the Cedar Mill Community Library in 1992. Final Exit: The Practicalities Reason: the book tells how to of Self-Deliverance and commit suicide and that it will Humphrey, Assisted Suicide for the result in the death of people. A suicide manual for the Derek Dying, Dell. Retained. terminally ill. A

A thriller that thriller recounts the story of three brutal Challenged in a public library in escaped convicts and the Dirty White Boys: A Novel ; June 2010. Reason: sexually obsessive state trooper who Hunter, Stephen Dell explicit and offensive language. pursues them. A

Challenged at the Powell Valley Covers all areas of gnome Elementary School in Gresham in culture, including architecture, 1993. Reasons: nudity, sexual education, courtship, references, wine drinking, pipe medicine, industry, and smoking, cruelty to creatures. relationships with other Huygen, Wil Gnomes, Harry N. Abrams. Restricted to adult shelf. mythical creatures. A Challenged at the Hillsboro Public Library in 1994. Reasons: lyrics that are obscene; degrading to This album by one of the best women descriptions of sex acts. know rap singers was recorded Ice Cube Predator, (music CD). Retained. in 1992 during the LA riots. A A Japanese manga series. The story revolves around Tsukune Challenged in 2012 in a public Aono, a boy who accidentally library by an individual. Reason: gets enrolled in a school Rosario+Vampire: A Novel. nudity, sexually explicit, unsuited inhabited by monsters and Ikeda, Akihisa Viz Media to age. Retained demons. YA

Challenged in an intermediate school library in Beaverton in 1991. Reason: explicit line drawings of sexual intercourse Illustrated positions in 1 volume. Removal of Encyclopedia Illustrated Encyclopedia of entire set requested. Removed A multivolume encyclopedia of Family Family Health, Marshall from shelves, retained for staff set focusing on health and Health Cavendish. use. hygiene. A

Set on the St. Lawrence River in northern New York, this mystery revolves around sisters Challenged at the Ledding Library Emma and Jesse, their unhappy Inglehart, Breaking the Ring, Little in Milwaukee in 1997 Reason: bad friend Maggie and smuggled Donna Walsh Brown. language. Retained. cocaine. YA

Challenged in a public library in A series adapted from the 2005. Reason: nudity and fictionalized accounts by Eiji violence. Requested Yoshikawa of the samurai Vagabond, VIZ Media LLC reclassification in Graphic Novels. Miyamoto Musashi Inoue, Takehiko (graphic novel series). Retained in Youth Graphic Novels. (1584–1645). YA

This program discusses scientific proof that increased carbon dioxide levels would be beneficial to the planet. Increased carbon dioxide Challenged at the Multnomah increases plant production. County Library in 1999. Reason: Scientists looked at soybean, interest group that produced cotton, citrus and rice crops. video is not identified on They believe that increased packaging and the video doesn’t carbon dioxide which plants Institute for Greening of Planet Earth, present alternate points of view. feed on would cause a gradual Biospheric (video). Western Fuels Retained. greening effect on the entire Research Association. planet.. A Writing for fellow psychiatrists One of 17 books challenged at the as well as for gay men seeking Deschutes County Library in 1993 insights into their own by a member of the Oregon development, the author Being Homosexual: Gay Men Citizens Alliance. Reason: the presents the conclusions from and Their Development, materials exist to promote his clinical experience that Farrar, Straus and Giroux; homosexuality and moral decay. homosexuality is natural rather Isay, Richard Avon. Retained. than pathological. A

A satirical comedy of ambition, greed & the battle of the sexes. Challenged at the Corvallis-Benton A woman tax collector meets County Library in 1992. Reasons: her match in a millionaire "love Itami, Juzo, brief nudity and sex; warning label hotel" tycoon & tax evader director A Taxing Woman (Video) requested. Retained without label. extraordinaire. A

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 2002. Reason: categorization of video as comedy This is view of Bollywood, Ivory, James Bombay Talkie, (video). inaccurate Reclassified as drama. India's movie industry. A

The story of a town that seems centered on its annual lottery, an event which appears harmless enough, but as the story progresses, the full truth behind the lottery is revealed. Challenged at the Salem-Keizer The winner, chosen at random, School District in 200. Reason: is then ritually stoned to death morbid and grotesque ideas by the willing participation of Jackson, Shirley Lottery . portrayed. Retained. the town's inhabitants. YA

Challenged in the library of a private religious based academic university in 2013. Reason: The first installment in an sexually explicit; against religious erotic series that traces the values; pornography. Retained & deepening relationship between moved from browsing collection to a college graduate, Anastasia Fifty Shades of Grey; the literature collection in the Steele, and a young business James, E.L. Doubleday stacks. magnate, Christian Grey. A This romance is set in the Scottish Highlands during the early 1200s. Shortly before she is to take her nun's vows, Meredith Munro is kidnapped Challenged at the Multnomah by Cameron MacKay, the last County Library in 2003. Reason: of a once-powerful clan. The James, explicit sexual references. captor is soon captivated by his Samantha His Wicked Ways, Avon. Retained. lovely prisoner. A

The first book in the Deptford Mice Trilogy, stories of a Challenged in a public library in group of mice who fight an evil Dark Portal , The; Blackstone 2011. Reason: too frightening for cat named Jupiter in Deptford, Jarvis, Robin Audio children. Retained London J

Challenged at the Multnomah Gay Love Signs: The New County Library in 1999. Reason: Described as the most Astrology Guide for Men Who book encourages participation in a complete, correct astrological Jay, Michael Love Men, Plume. gay lifestyle. Retained. guide for gay men of the 1990s A

Sophomore Colt Trammel loves baseball and his girlfriend Grace, but he hates Challenged at the Multnomah the rest of high school and County Library in 2005. Reason maintains a tough facade to Jenkins, A.M. Out of Order, HarperTeen. unknown. Retained. hide his feelings of inferiority. YA Told from the points of view of two dogs displaced by a new baby in the household. They dislike this intruder in their home. However, a visit from Grandpa changes their perspective. “It is our new animal to hate as much as we want to, but Grandpa better not That New Animal ; Farrar, Challenged in a public library in try to pick it up.” Jenkins, Emily Straus & Giroux October 2009. Reason: violence. E

Challenged at the Green Acres Elementary School in Lebanon in 1998. Reason: history of witchcraft, body parts in potions, Black Magic, White Magic, discussion of witches as a religion. Jennings, Gary Dell. Outcome unknown. A history of magic J Challenged at the Multnomah An assortment of folktales County Library in 1999. Reason: recorded live at Bennington Jennings, Tim World Tales: Live at inappropriate for children; College, accompanied and Leanne Bennington College, (audio requested tape be reclassified as sparingly by harp and Ponder cassette). adult. Reclassified. concertina. E

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1995. Reason: "rude, stupid, and not funny … disgusting … can't find a Jerky Boys 2, (audio redeeming feature." Outcome This is the second of the Jerky Jerky Boys recording). unknown. Boys crank-calls albums. A

Challenged at the Multnomah Guide to Getting it On!: A County Library in 1999. Reason: Joannides, Paul New And Mostly Wonderful ability of children to view and and Daerick Book About Sex For Adults check out book, request restricted A comprehensive general sex Gross For All Ages, Goofy Foot. access. Retained without change. book. A

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 2003. Reason: Fantastic Stories, Viking too disturbing for children. A collection of 21 stories, Jones, Terry Juvenile. Retained. mostly original fairy tales. J

A collection of humorous Challenged at the Multnomah hypothetical situations to use to Joslin, Sesyle County Library in 1995. Reasons: teach children etiquette. A and Maurice What Do You Say, Dear?, promotes violence; does not teach Caldecott Honor Book and Sendak HarperTrophy . positive values. Retained. ALA Notable Children's Book. E

Wolf fathers and sons are Challenged at a public library in hunters; everybody knows that Judes, Marie- Max the Stubborn Little Wolf, 2006 Reason: anti-family. except Max, who wants to be a Odile Harper-Collins Retained. florist J

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1994. Reason: taxpayer dollars spent on materials in children can learn disrespect for authority & the attitude that violence is A book of Beavis and Butthead Judge, Mike This Book Sucks, Pocket. acceptable. Retained. humor. A Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1992. Reasons: photographs of homosexual men; articles not respectful toward A monthly newspaper for gay, those who are not homosexual. lesbian, bisexual and Just Out Just Out, (periodical). Retained. transgender readers. A

Cat Who Killed Lilian A parody of the writings of Jackson: A Parody , The; Challenged in a public library in popular mystery writer Lilian Kaplow, Robert New Millennium Press 2011. Reason: violence Retained. Jackson Braun. A

Challenged in August 2009 at a A romantic high school public library. Reason: nudity. comedy in graphic novel Katsura, MasakazuI''s. Vol. 8, Magic charm; VIZ Retained format. YA

Pinkerton doesn't understand his owner's commands. When told to come, he jumps out the window. When asked to fetch the newspaper, he destroys it. Pinkerton's desperate owner sends him to obedience school, but he flunks out in record Challenged at the Corvallis-Benton time. Then one night a burglar County Library in 2003. Reason: breaks into their house, and scary illustrations and lack of Pinkerton is able to put his bad Kellogg, Steven Pinkerton, Behave!, Dial. warning about them. Retained. habits to good use. E Pinkerton doesn't understand his owner's commands. When told to come, he jumps out the window. When asked to fetch the newspaper, he destroys it. Pinkerton's desperate owner sends him to obedience school, but he flunks out in record Challenged by a parent in 2003 at time. Then one night a burglar a public library. Reason: images breaks into their house, and may be upsetting to children. Pinkerton is able to put his bad Kellogg, Steven Pinkerton, Behave!, Dial. Retained. habits to good use. E

A friendship that develops into a romance between a Canadian soldier and a Dutch boy. Based on the novel of the Kerbosch, For a Lost Soldier, Voor een Challenged at the Multnomah same title by Rudi van Dantzig Roeland; verloren soldaat (video). Fox County Library in 2003. Reason: and adapted by Don Bloch. Director Lorber graphic sexual content. Retained. Dutch & English subtitles. A

More than 50 Harlequin romances donated in 1984 by Glide residents were threatened with removal from the high school library. Reason: “teenagers already have trouble with their emotions without being A romance novel about a "no Between Pride and Passion, stimulated by poorly written strings" relationship that grows Kidd, Flora Harlequin. books.” Outcome unknown. complicated. A

Challenged at the Pilot Butte A teenage runaway and a Junior High School in Bend in social worker are brought 1989. Reason: degrading, closer together by their shared demeaning & offensive language. interest in the fate of an The material does not enlighten, escaped wolf struggling for Kilgore, The Wolfman of Beacon Hill, uplift or encourage character- survival in the streets of Kathleen Little. building traits. Retained Boston. YA

Challenged twice at the Rural Dell School District in Molalla in 1992. Reasons: because the book is "anti-local" has "logger-bashing" sentiments and an "ecological A 12-year-old boy adjusts to slant."; objection to character's rural life after growing up in Killingsworth, threat of suicide as way of making L.A. and stages a logging Monte Eli's Songs, Macmillan. a point; Retained. protest. J The first of a three-part series Challenged at the Multnomah of contemporary supernatural Kim, Miran and Fallen, The. Vol. 1, The Pale County Library in 1999. Reason: stories set in the Goth rock David Aaron Door. Nantier Beall extreme violence and graphic scene on Manhattan's Lower Clark Minoustchine. sexuality. Retained. East Side. A

The first of a three-part series Challenged at the Multnomah of contemporary supernatural Kim, Miran and Fallen, The. Vol. 1, The Pale County Library in March, 2000. stories set in the Goth rock David Aaron Door. Nantier Beall Reason: extreme violence and scene on Manhattan's Lower Clark Minoustchine. graphic sexuality. Retained. East Side. A

The first of a three-part series Challenged at the Multnomah of contemporary supernatural Kim, Miran and Fallen, The. Vol. 1, The Pale County Library in May , 2000. stories set in the Goth rock David Aaron Door. Nantier Beall Reason: extreme violence and scene on Manhattan's Lower Clark Minoustchine. graphic sexuality. Retained. East Side. A

A school board member challenged the use of the second chapter, "Getting to Know Yourself" in a Career Education class in McKinzie High School in Kimball, Grady Finn Rock. Reason: inquiries into The chapter included a survey and Ben S. Succeeding in the World of students' religious backgrounds. of student feelings about Vinyard Work, McGraw Hill Retained. health, family and religion. YA

Challenged by a parent at the Whitford Intermediate School A mutating flu virus is Library in Beaverton in 1989. accidentally released from a Reason: sexual language, casual U.S. military facility and kills sex and violence. Restricted to 99.44 percent of the ninth-grade students, with population. An apocalyptic tale King, Stephen The Stand, Doubleday. parental consent. of Good and Evil. A

They were seven teenagers Challenged at the Salem Public when they first stumbled upon Library in 1991 by a parent & the horror. Now grownups, teenager. Reasons: obscene none of them can withstand the language & homosexual acts. force that draws them back to Requested restriction to 18 yrs. & Derry, Maine, to face the evil King, Stephen It, Viking. older. Retained without restriction. without a name. A

Challenged at the Roseburg High Tells the story of the conflict School in 1994. Reasons: demonic between the author and his Dark Half, NAL; Viking: G.K. violent content; vulgar language. struggle to find and kill his King, Stephen Hall. Retained. alter-ego. A A mutating flu virus is accidentally released from a Challenged at the Douglas County U.S. military facility and kills Library System in 1997. Reason: 99.44 percent of the filthy language & graphic sexual population. An apocalyptic tale King, Stephen The Stand, Doubleday. scenes. Retained. of Good and Evil. A

Tells the story of two families Challenged at the Crook County and their problems. A St. High School in Prineville in 1998. Bernard infected with rabies is Reason: profanity and sexual a well-known feature of this King, Stephen Cujo, NAL; Viking. content. Removed. book. A

Challenged in a public library in An assessment of the female 2012 by an individual. Reason: condition in the post-feminist sexually explicit. Objected to the world of the 21st century. Female Thing: Dirt, Sex, image on the cover & requested Kipnis is a professor of media Envy, Vulnerability, The; that other books with similar cover studies at Northwestern Kipnis, Laura Pantheon images not be displayed. Retained University. A One of 17 books challenged at the Deschutes County Library in 1993 by a member of the Oregon After the Ball: How America Citizens Alliance. Reason: the Kirk, Marshall will Conquer its Hatred and materials exist to promote Proposes a media campaign to and Hunter Fear of Homosexuals in the homosexuality and moral decay. correct stereotypes and remove Madison '90s, NIL. Retained. anti-gay prejudice. A

Challenged at the Lakeview school libraries in 1991. Reason: the complainant's son asked "rather Photographs and text present pointed questions" about the nine months of fetal Kitzinger, Sheila Being Born, Putnam. childbirth. Retained. development. E

Challenged in 2007 in a public library by a teacher who recommended that it be reclassified, labeled for 16 and Klause, Annette Blood and Chocolate, older or with a parental advisory A teenaged werewolf falls in Curtis Delacorte Press sticker. Retained as is. love with a human boy. YA

Challenged at the Douglas County Library System in Roseburg in 1989. Reason: condones homosexuality and premarital sex. My Life as a Body, Fawcett; Reclassified from children's Klein, Norma Knopf. collection to young adult. A love story of two teenagers. YA Challenged at the Multnomah My Life as a Body, Fawcett; County Library 1991. Reason: too Klein, Norma Knopf. explicit. Retained. A love story of two teenagers. YA

Challenged at the Springfield Public Library in 1989. Reasons: Eleven-year-old Robbie must adults sleep around; not one contend with his parents' joint healthy marriage; young boy intent custody arrangement and a Robbie and the Leap Year on getting his friend to undress burgeoning interest in the Klein, Norma Blues, Bullseye Books. with his girl friend. Retained. opposite sex. J

One of 5 books challenged at the Bend High School library in 1993 by a member of the Oregon Coming of age story about a 16- Citizen's Alliance. Reason: year-old boy on an extended Koertge, Ronald The Arizona Kid, Avon; Little. homosexual content. Retained. visit with his gay uncle. YA

One of 17 books challenged at the Deschutes County Library in 1993 by a member of the Oregon Citizens Alliance. Reason: the materials exist to promote Coming of age story about a 16- homosexuality and moral decay. year-old boy on an extended Koertge, Ronald The Arizona Kid, Avon; Little. Retained. visit with his gay uncle. YA

After calling 911 to report that his sister has stopped breathing 13 year old Branwell Zamborska stops speaking. Challenged by a parent in a middle Branwell is suspected of school in 2008 Reason: sexually causing the injury. His best explicit & unsuited to age group. friend, Connor, seeks to reach Konigsburg, E.L. Silent to the Bone , Athenium Retained him and find out the truth. YA

Challenged by a parent at the Mountain View High School in Bend in 1992. Reason: not suitable for high school students; A scientist learns to brainwash pornography and "smut". people and use subliminal ads Koontz, Dean R. Night Chills, Atheneum. Retained. to control them. YA

Challenged at the Beaverton School District in 1993 Reason: A scientist learns to brainwash violence and sexual content. people and use subliminal ads Koontz, Dean R. Night Chills, Atheneum. Removed. to control them. YA One of 5 books challenged by a member of the Oregon Citizen's Kopay, David David Kopay Story: An Alliance at the Bend Senior High Former NFL player David Kopay and Perry D. Extraordinary Self- School library in 1993. Reason: tells his story of being the first Young Revelation, Advocate. homosexual content. Retained. openly gay NFL player. A

Challenged in a public library in No princess is around to be fed 2012 by a teacher. Reason: to the dragon so Little Oscar's concern that the books promotes name is pulled from the hat. Oscar and the Very Hungry overeating and patterning His cleverness comes to his Krause, Ute Dragon; NorthSouth behavior. Retained rescue! E

A romance that features Katy Wade, taken on as the personal assistant to the matriarch and CEO of Gilchrist Challenged at the Multnomah Inc. Later, Katie recruits family Krentz, Jayne Family Man (audio), Black County Library in 2001. Reason: exile Luke to find out why the Anne Flag. graphic sex. Retained. family business is collapsing. A

Three generations of the Cazalet family in the shadows Challenged at the Multnomah of WWII. Adapted from the Krishnamma, The Cazalets, (video). WGBH County Library in 2005. Reason: Elizabeth Jane Howard's epic Suri; Director Boston unknown. Retained. novels Cazalet chronicle. A

"The Tale of Three Storytellers" in Junior Great Challenged by a parent in a school Books Series 5: Book Two; library in 2012. Reason: promotes Short story in a student Krüss, James Great Books Foundation Islam. Retained anthology. J

The story recounts the struggle immigrants face in an alien society that refuses to accept them. There is a sharp contrast in the way Pervez and his son Challenged at the Multnomah Farid deal with the sense of My Son the Fanatic, Faber & County Library in 2005. Reason belonging and being a part of Kureishi, Hanif Faber. unknown. Retained. society. A

Challenged in a public library in 2007. Reason; homosexual and sexually explicit content; offensive Based on the Pulitzer prize language and religious point of winning play that portrays the Angels in America (Video) view. Library retained and labeled struggles of homosexual men Kushner, Tony HBO films NR (not rated). in the 1980s. A Challenged at the Douglas County Library in Roseburg in 1989. Reason: concerns that children are The telling of the activities of a not ready for illustrations and fictional football team from the Dallas Titans Get Ready for conversation about jockstraps. locker room after the game to Kuskin, Karla Bed, Harper; Trophy Press. Retained. bedtime. J

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 2002. Reason: concern that the graphic A two-line verse accompanies Kutner, Merrily illustrations are inappropriate for each of 26 spooky sights in this and John Z is for Zombie, Albert young children and should have chilling book presented in an Manders Whitman & Company. warning. Retained. alphabet format. E

Challenged in a public library in 2009; Reason: may be Best Gay Bondage Erotica; pornographic; inappropriate for Labonte, Richard, Cleis.ed. children. Retained Short story collection A

Short stories about men and Challenged at the Multnomah women engaging in adulterous Seconds of Pleasure, Grove County Library in 2005. Reason affairs, voyeuristic fantasies LaBute, Neil Press. unknown. Retained. and doomed interactions. A

Challenged at the Multnomah Vanyel is a young boy with no County Library in 1992. Reason: magical abilities, until a naive Magic's Price (The Last homosexual content; suggested sacrifice makes him one of the Lackey, Herald-Mage Series, Book 3), reclassification to adult. Retained world's most powerful mages -- Mercedes DAW. with no change. but at a devastating price. YA A series of novels about the seven-year period of end-of- LaHaye, Tim Challenged at the Multnomah the-world tribulation and Jerry B. Left Behind series, Tyndale County Library in 2005. Reason suggested by the biblical book Jenkins House unknown. Retained. of Revelation. A

On October 31, 1998, the Associated Press broke the news of the DNA findings linking Thomas Jefferson to Sally Hemings through the Challenged at the Corvallis-Benton Eston Hemings line. The County Library in 2003. Reason: authors have since traveled difficulty finding in the children's the country A collection of Lanier, Shannon Jefferson's Children, Random collection. Retained and historical materials and and Jane House Books for Young additional copy purchased for interviews with both the Feldman Readers. adult collection. Jefferson and Hemings families. YA Challenged at the Oregon City Public Library in 1990. Reason: Lansdale, Joe & Razored Saddles, Dark One short story with homosexual Pat Lobrutto Harvest Books. theme. Retained. A collection of short stories. A

A darkly surreal Greek motion Lanthimos, Challenged in a public library in picture about three teenagers Yorgos; author 2012 by an individual. Reason: confined to an isolated country of screenplay & Dogtooth (Kynodontas); Boo nudity & sexually explicit. estate and kept under strict rule director Productions Retained and regimen by their parents. A

When Chan sets out to investigate the link between several suspicious deaths and a mysterious psychic named Dr. Zodiac, he soon finds himself up to his third eye in intrigue. Challenged in a public library in But as he edges closer to the May 2010. Reason: the description shocking truth, he finally Charlie Chan at Treasure provides no indication that there is begins to see that behind every Island; 20 Century Fox Home nudity. Requested a warning label. great mystic is an even greater Larkin, John Entertainment. (video) Retained without a label. magician. A

Challenged at the Multnomah The story of the author's County Library in 1991. Reasons: grandparents as they came to They Were Strong and Good, the novel "glorifies slavery and the U.S. parallels the social Lawson, Robert Viking Press. racism." Retained. history of the U.S. J

In the summer of 1977 in New York City, a man called the Son of Sam commits numerous murders. As friends in a small Italian neighborhood become obsessed with the idea that the Son of Sam is someone nearby, the madman's plague of terror becomes the catalyst that Challenged at the Lake Oswego prompts relationships to fall Summer of Sam, (video). Public Library in 2001. Reason: apart and trust to disintegrate Lee, Spike Touchstone Video graphic sex. Retained. into dread. A

Lemon, a poet, suffered a stroke and later brain bleeds when he was a college student. Challenged in a public library in This book chronicles his 2011. Reason: offensive language. struggles to overcome a self- Lemon, Alex Happy: A Memoir ; Scribner Retained destructive lifestyle. A One stormy night a strange visitor comes to the Murry house and beckons Meg, her Challenged at the Mid Valley brother, Charles Wallace, and Elementary School in Hood River their friend Calvin O'Keefe on a County in 1990. Reasons: most dangerous and fantastic demonic character; magic, journey that will threaten their L'Engle, witchcraft, sorcery. Outcome lives and our universe. A 1963 Madeline A Wrinkle in Time, Scholastic. unknown. Newbery Medal winner. J

Where our stuff comes from and where it goes. How our Challenged in a school library in obsession with stuff is trashing Fall 2009. Reason: anti-American, the planet, our communities, Story of Stuff, The; Free contains slanted data and statistics, and our health--and a vision for Range Studious (Online the sponsoring organization is too change. A project fiscally Leonard, Annie resource; video) liberal. Retained sponsored by the Tides Center. NA

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1997. Reason: Request to have the title reclassified from comedy to Based on a novel by Glendon comedy-drama and a "PG" rating Swarthout; chronicles the added because of a rape scene. escapades of college kids on Levin, Henry Where the Boys Are, (video). Retained. spring break in Florida. A

Challenged at the Floyd Light Middle School library in Portland Provides slang synonyms for Random House Thesaurus of in 1992. Reason: unknown. standard English words and Lewin, Esther Slang, Random House. Restricted. terms. A

One of 12 titles challenged by a parent at Ackerman Junior High in in Canby in 1987. A materials review committee recommended all be retained. This title was 1 of 4 that the parent appealed in A time machine is accidentally 1988. Reasons: portrays the Bible activated and sends three as myth; promotes a secular- friends to a strange landscape Gods or Demons?, Four humanistic belief in evolution. where they interact with three Lighter, A.M. Winds. Retained. distinct groups of beings. YA

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1998. Reason: inaccurate information about A brief introduction to the several musical instruments. musical instruments of the Lillegard, Dee Woodwinds. Children's Press. Retained. woodwind family. J The candy store has closed, and since the Easter bunny always bought his eggs there Challenged at the Multnomah (so Mom and Dad say), there County Library in 1992. Reason: can't be an egg hunt. But Lotto the book disillusions children knows, as do the readers, that Lotto's Easter Surprise, R&S about the Easter Bunny and Santa Lotto has arranged a very Lindgren, Astrid Books. Claus. Retained. special candy hunt. E

Headstrong heiress Sharisse Hammond wants no part of the Challenged at the Clatskanie New York society marriage Library District in 1990. Reason: that has been arranged for her, Lindsey, Picture of a male nude on the so she heads west across a vast Johanna Tender is the Storm, Avon. cover. Retained. and dangerous land. YA

Challenged at the Naas Elementary School library in Boring in 1986. Reason: the story Two rabbits are warned not to about two rabbits living in a lush eat the apples in the garden. garden paradise made a mockery Despite these warnings, the of the biblical tale of Adam and rabbits escape the fox with the Eve. The rabbits that ate the help of a snake in the apple In the Rabbit's Garden, forbidden fruit lived happily ever tree. For baby through Lioni, Leo Pantheon. after. Outcome unknown. preschool.

A 17-year-old Harlem boy caught in a ring of sex, violence, and drugs in his Parents challenged the Use in the Harlem neighborhood gains 9th grade Language Arts/ Social the self-confidence and vision Studies Class at the South Albany he needs to transcend his High School in 1994. Reason: ethic situation as he endures the references, use of the word rigors of training in an "nigger", unworthy after the 1st unsuccessful attempt to Lipsyte, Robert Contender, HarperCollins. 15 pages. Retained become a champion boxer. YA A comic graphic novel about the adventures of Bee, a photo- finishing technician in Manhattan. When a photo of a naked corpse is brought in to Challenged in a high school library be processed she tries to find in 2008 by a teacher. Reason: the killer. On the School homosexual content, nudity and Library Journal list of offensive language. Retained, but exceptional adult books to Shutterbug Follies, parental permission required to recommend to high school Little, Jason Doubleday Graphic Novels check it out. students. A Gaza Strip is Longley's first feature documentary. It is a Challenged at the Seaside Public journey into the lives of Library in 2005. Reason: concern Palestinians in the Gaza Strip that the film is biased Arab struggling with the day-to-day Longley, James Gaza Strip, (video). propaganda. Retained. trials of the Israeli occupation. A

Challenged in a public library in Prokofiev's now-classic Loriot; Sergey 2003 Reason: the story doesn't orchestral fairy tale of a boy Prokofiev; Jörg Peter and the Wolf, Random adhere to original story in Russian. who captures a wolf with the Müller House . Retain aid of some animal friends. E

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 2002. Reason: Low rider Low rider , Primedia inappropriate nudity within reach A magazine for automotive magazine Publications (periodical). of children. Retained. enthusiasts. A

Challenged by a patron at the Tigard Public Library in 1988. Reasons: explicit sex and extreme Butterfly, Blue Moon Books; physical and psychological cruelty. An erotic retelling of the Lowen, Paul Saint Martin's. Retained. Madame Butterfly story. A

Jonas is a young boy in a colorless world who is selected to become "The Receiver," or Challenged by a parent at the the person who receives the Danebo Elementary School in memories of the entire human Eugene in 1995. Reasons: the race. From birth to death, war book is about a cult that controls to peace, animals to gods, etc., its members, murders infants and all is made aware to Jonas commits suicides; it is violent & through his mentor, "The graphic & deals with subjects Giver." Once receiving these inappropriate for children. memories, his world is flipped Lowry, Lois The Giver Retained. upside-down. J

Challenged at the Eagle Point This is the story of Eric, a 17- Junior High School in 1991. year-old with leukemia who Reason: language considered refused to give up living – as Lund, Doris Eric, Harper Perennial. obscene. Retained. told by his mother. YA

Challenged by a minister at the Seaside Public Library in 1989. Reasons: objected to children Forces that Drive, (Display of viewing paintings because of A display of paintings by a local Lutz, Bill paintings). nudity. Retained. artist Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1995. Reason: Indian Legends of the Great insulting to native peoples. Part of the Legends of the Lyback, Johanna West, Lyons and Carnahan. Retained. American Indian Series. J

Challenged at the Multnomah Two young lovers are on the County Library in 1993. Reasons: run from her nasty mother. violence language & sexual acts. Based on the first of Barry Lynch, David, Wild at Heart, (video), Media Requested restricted to adults. Gifford's novels about series of director home video. Retained without restrictions. novels about Sailor and Lula. A

A detailed, often witty guide 1984 edition challenged at the for boys on the cusp of Salem-Keizer School District in adolescence. Covers such What's Happening to My 1994. Reasons: slang names for topics as masturbation, body Body? Book for Boys: The sexual organs & functions; hair, growth spurts (or lack Madaras, Lynda New Growing and up Guide contains information on thereof), female puberty, voice and Area for Parents and Sons, homosexuality, but not HIV or changes, perspiration, shaving Madaras Newmarket Press. AIDS. Replaced with new edition. . and sexuality. YA

A mylar-wrapped, spiral-bound Challenged in November 1992 at book of photographs of pop the Multnomah County Library. star Madonna in revealing and Reason: public money spent on erotic poses based on her pornographic material. Included fantasies. Its publication was a threats to not donate to library; widely covered news event not to vote for library levy. and it immediately became a Madonna Sex, Warner Books. Retained best seller. A

A mylar-wrapped, spiral-bound Challenged in December 1992 at book of photographs of pop the Multnomah County Library. star Madonna in revealing and Reason: public money spent on erotic poses based on her pornographic material. Included fantasies. Its publication was a threats to not donate to library; widely covered news event not to vote for library levy. and it immediately became a Madonna Sex, Warner Books. Retained best seller. A

A mylar-wrapped, spiral-bound book of photographs of pop star Madonna in revealing and erotic poses based on her Challenged at the Multnomah fantasies. Its publication was a County Library in 1993. Reason: widely covered news event public money spent on and it immediately became a Madonna Sex, Warner Books. pornographic material. best seller. A Challenged at the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library in 2005. Mahoney outlines his theory Reason: concern that the book that severe, unconscious Schizophrenia: The Bearded contains inaccurate information bisexual conflict and gender Mahoney, J. Lady Disease, 1st Books and negative portrayal of mental confusion are the primary Michael Library. illness. Retained. causes of all mental illness. A

Challenged at the Salem Public Mailer mixes historical figures Library in 2000. Reason: parts of and real events with a well- the book take place in a basement developed cast of fictional Harlot's Ghost, where people are urinating on characters in this epic about Mailer, Norman (book/audiotape). each other. Retained. two generations of CIA officers. A

The story of two women: a nearly-mute beauty queen who descends into withdrawal and madness, and another who captains a ship laden with Challenged at the Multnomah candy and sugar, luring men Makavejev, County Library in 2002. Reason: and boys aboard for sex, death, Dusan Sweet Movie, (video). strong sexual situations. Retained. and revolutionary talk A

The story of two women: a nearly-mute beauty queen who descends into withdrawal and madness, and another who captains a ship laden with Challenged in a public library in candy and sugar, luring men Makavejev, 2012. Reason: promotes and boys aboard for sex, death, Dusan Sweet Movie, (video). homosexuality. Retained. and revolutionary talk A

A coming of age story about a 15-year-old boy who runs away from his mother and stepfather to be with his father Challenged at the Multnomah in Hawaii. Through his travels County Library in 1989. Reasons: and mastering the waves, Jim profanity and sexual references.. discovers his strengths and his Maloney, Ray Impact Zone, Delacort Retained. independence. YA

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1993. Reason: An art book of photographs of Mann, Sally Immediate Family, Aperture. pornographic. Retained. children A Long Hard Road Out of Hell, Challenged at the Multnomah Manson, Harper Entertainment; Harper County Library in 2002. Reason: Controversial musician Marilyn Marilyn Perennial. graphic sexual language. Retained. Manson's book on growing up. A

Gregory invites seven male Challenged at the Multnomah friends to spend the summer at Love! Valour! Compassion!, County Library in 2001. Reason: his large, secluded 19th-century Mantello, Joe (video). homosexual content. Retained. home in upstate New York. A

Challenged at the Multnomah A dramatization of the life of Markowitz, David, (video). Warner Home County Library in 2000. Reason: the biblical King David. From Robert Video graphic violent scenes. Retained. the Bible Collection series. A

While big changes are coming to her Mexican village, nine- year-old Rosalba hears that the Challenged in 2012 in a public Mayan calendar predicts the library by a parent. Reason: end of the world in 2012 and concern book may be too dark & she dreams of an ancient disturbing for children; requested Mayan boy, eyes bound in a Marsden, relocation from the children's shamanistic ritual, who hints at Carolyn Starfields; Candlewick Press section to adult. Retained what Rosalba can do. J

Challenged at the Douglas County Library System in 1990. Reasons: Fox loses his big part in the young children might mimic parts class play, is afraid to go down of the story like disrespect for a a slide for a fire drill, and is left Marshall, substitute teacher or pulling up a in charge of the class by Miss Edward Fox at School, Puffin. dress. Retained. Moon. J

Challenged in a public library in 2012 by a parent. Reason: concern that this beginning reader has characters that smoke & lie does Fox and his friends have a Marshall, not have a strong message against different adventure every day Edward Fox All Week those behaviors. Retained of the week. E

The summer that Hattie turns Challenged at the Greenway twelve, she meets the childlike Elementary School in Beaverton in uncle she never knew and 2003. Reason: mature content. becomes friends with a girl Corner of the Universe, Restricted - access only to older who works at the carnival that Martin, Ann M. Scholastic. elementary students. comes to Hattie's small town J Challenged by a parent at the Beaver Elementary School in Beaverton in 1991. Reason: story Eleven-year-old Prin's secure of incest & battering in a 1958 world in a small Tennessee setting does not offer helpful town during the 1950s is turned solutions to today's students; upside-down when she Martin, Night Riding, Knopf Books for shame & denial emphasized; discovers that her new friend Katherine Young Readers. inappropriate language. Retained. and neighbor is being abused. YA

A student production was Explores the similarity of the cancelled at La Grande High creative process involved in School in 2009 after parental great leaps of imagination in art objections to adult content. and science by imagining a Reason: references to drinking and meeting between Pablo Picasso sexual activity. A student club and Albert Einstein in a Paris raised the funds (some from bar as they are on the verge of Picasso at the Lapin Agile Martin) to rent space to present the great achievements in painting Martin, Steve (play) play at Eastern Oregon University. and physics. A

Each spread consists of a spectacular color photograph paired with four lines of verse Challenged at the Gladstone that challenges the reader. The Marzollo, Jean I Spy Fun House : A book of Public Library in 2002. Reason: fun-house theme is used in the and Walter Wick picture riddles; Scholastic scary clowns. Retained. scenery choices.. J

The angels are on a special assignment to Beijing, China. Jean Chang, a translator, is risking her life by returning to her homeland, but she is compelled to search for Liberty Challenged at the Corvallis-Benton Moon, the young daughter she County Library in 2005. Reason: was forced to leave behind the violent content is while protesting for Touched by an Angel: In the inappropriate for the children’s democracy. A feature length Spirit of Liberty Moon, section. Reclassified in Adult Video episode of the television Masius, John (video).CBS Series collection. program Touched by an Angel. A From a groundbreaking newspaper serial in the San Francisco Chronicle to a bestselling novel to a critically acclaimed PBS series, Tales (all Challenged at the Salem Public six of them) tells the stories of Maupin, Tales of the City, Library in 1999. Reason: scenes of several colorful characters Armistead HarperCollins. gays, sex and drugs. Retained. living in San Francisco. A

Challenged in public library in February 2010. Reason: A film based on the book by Maupin, Further Tales of the City; homosexuality, nudity and gender Armistead Maupin; more Armistead and Showtime Entertainment change promotes moral decay. stories of colorful characters James Lesesne (video) Retained. living in San Francisco. A

Challenged at the Douglas County Library System in 1988. Reasons: scary pictures; references to A girl outsmarts witches, boiling children & image of swamp gooblygooks and haunts in the Liza Lou and the Yeller Belly devil jumping in ear & stealing Yeller Belly Swamp on her Mayer, Mercer Swamp, Aladdin; Macmillan. soul. Retained. way to Gramma's house. E

Challenged at the Coburg Elementary School in Eugene in 1991. Reason: alleged satanic art. The book was retained, but an accompanying audiotape that encourages children to look A boy named Elroy meets a closely at the art work was magician, and a night of Mayer, Mercer A Special Trick, Dial. removed by the school principal. adventure begins. J

In 1944 a 15-year-old Jewish boy tells his family he will travel in the West but instead Challenged at the Salem-Keizer enlists in the United States Air Public Schools in 1990. Reason: Corps and is subsequently Mazer, Harry Last Mission, Laurel Leaf. language. Retained. taken prisoner by the Germans. YA

In 1944 a 15-year-old Jewish boy tells his family he will travel in the West but instead Challenged at the Douglas County enlists in the United States Air Library System in 1991. Reason: Corps and is subsequently Mazer, Harry Last Mission, Laurel Leaf. Obscene language. Retained. taken prisoner by the Germans. Challenged at the Talmadge Middle School in Independence in 1991. Reason: book not age appropriate; promotes experimentation in teenage sex, sexist view of women; does not Marcus is a senior in high promote responsible decision- school and decides it's time to making; relationships portrayed cross the wall that divides between young men and women childhood from adulthood but I Love You, Stupid, Avon are not ones of mutual respect. finds it's not the simple matter Mazer, Harry Books. Retained. he thought it would be. YA

Detectives Steve Carella and Hal Wallis interrogate beautiful, wealthy Marilyn Hollis when one of her beau's dies of poison, possibly a Challenged at the West Albany suicide. Marilyn becomes a High School in 1990. Reasons: murder suspect later, as two objectionable language; subject of more men she has been socially Poison: An 87th Precinct poison; picture of a distillation and sexually involved with are McBain, Ed Novel, Arbor House. machine. Retained. killed. A

Nocturne: A Novel of the 87th Challenged at the Multnomah Precinct, Grand Central County Library in 1999. Reason: Life-and-death vignettes from McBain, Ed Publishing. violent conduct. Retained. a single night in the city. A

The bold dragonriders take to Challenged at the Multnomah the air once more, and F'lar County Library in 1998. Reason: knows he must find a way to inappropriate sexual nature of protect his beloved Pern before book jacket. Retained with book the rebellious Oldtimers breed McCaffrey, Anne Dragonquest, Del Rey. jacket. anymore dissent. A

As Billy Creekmore and Wayne Falconer, two young men with Challenged at the Salem-Keizer remarkable psychic gifts, learn School District in 1992. Reasons: to use their powers, they and violence, profanity; book their world are threatened by considered bizarre, with no the machinations of their McCammon, Mystery Walk, Henry Holt; literary value. Retained but elusive, nightmarish enemy, Robert R. Pocket Books. restricted to high school level. the shape changer. YA Scotsman Ezra Stevenson recalls a story about a horrifying family crime told to his grandfather in Patagonia by one of its victims. Now a journalist happily escaped from the hard life of his childhood, Ezra tries to verify the story, Challenged at the Cornelius Public tracking down the four Library in 1990. Reasons: Sexual Mackenzie brothers and sisters references; graphic language. who had been so terrifyingly McCormack, E. Paradise Motel, Viking Adult. Retained. abused. A

Challenged at the Albany Public Library in 1992. Reasons: may encourage children to make pacts with the devil; incantations & The origins, habits, myths, McHargue, Meet the Werewolf, Dell threats of spiritual thievery; book legends and famous case Georgess Publishing. is demonic & evil. Retained. histories of werewolves. J

Margarita is fat, wears outrageous clothes, likes herself as she is and is nice to almost everyone except for her arch rival, student body Challenged in a public library in president Bridget who Fat Hoochie Prom Queen; 2008. Reason: offensive language. challenges Margarita to run for Medina, Nico Simon/Pulse. Retained prom queen against her. YA

Challenged at the Douglas County Library in Roseburg in 1989. Reasons: encourages devil worshipping; not appropriate for Twenty-six Halloween poems, young children. Reclassified from one for each of the letters of Merriam, Eve Halloween ABC , Macmillan. picture book to juvenile poetry. the alphabet. J

Challenged by a parent at the Colonel Wright Elementary School library in The Dalles in 1992. Reason: theme witchery; format Twenty-six Halloween poems, misleading. Reclassified from one for each of the letters of Merriam, Eve Halloween ABC , Macmillan. picture book to poetry. the alphabet. J

Challenged at the Salem-Keizer School District in 1993. Reasons: Twenty-six Halloween poems, satanic references and violence. one for each of the letters of Merriam, Eve Halloween ABC , Macmillan. Retained. the alphabet. J Challenged in 2008 at an elementary school by a parent. Reason: nudity, religious Illustrated history and Life, History and Magic of the viewpoint and occult / Satanism. psychology of the cat. Mery, Fernand Cat, Madison Square Press Outcome unknown. Translated by Emma Street A

Bringing Down the House: Challenged in the Beaverton Tells the story of six M.I.T. The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Schools as supplemental reading students who used math to Students Who Took Las Vegas in 2004. Reasons: profanity and win $4 million playing for Millions, Arrow; Free references to prostitution and blackjack in Las Vegas before Mezrich, Ben Press. gambling. Outcome unknown. finally getting caught. A

As a baby demon still ensconced in Hell, Hellboy's is allowed to eat only roasted maggots. His adventures arise from trying to add flesh to his diet. His quests are Challenged at the Corvallis-Benton complicated by such sidekicks Mignola, County Library in 2005. Reason: as a fly, a bird-demon, Donnie Michael Hellboy Junior, Dark Horse. unknown. Retained. (a junior devil), and Hitler. A

Miller, George; Challenged at the Multnomah Judy Morris; Babe: Pig in the City, (video); County Library in 1999. Reason: Mark Lamprell Universal could frighten children. Retained. Adventures of Babe, the pig. E

An exploration into the lives of several characters living in New York as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex. Challenged in 2008 in a public Produced by Howard Gertler, Mitchell, John library. Reason: concerned that Tim Percell, John Cameron Camerson, sexually explicit material is Mitchell. Written and directed director Shortbus (video), Team Love available to children. Retained. by John Cameron Mitchell. A

An exploration into the lives of several characters living in Mitchell, John Challenged in 2010 in a public New York as they navigate the Camerson, library. Reason: offensive sexual comic and tragic intersections director Shortbus (video), Team Love content. Retained. between love and sex. A

Tells the story of a Native Challenged at the Reynolds High American who travels to an School in Troutdale in 1989. urban environment from his Momaday, N. House Made of Dawn, Reason: two pages are sexually rural and ancestral home. 1969 Scott Harper; NAL; Penguin. explicit. Retained. Pulitzer Prize winner. A One of a three book series by one of comics' most popular writers in which Wonderland's Alice, Oz's Dorothy, and Neverland's Wendy reveal their carnal natures by relating their past sexual encounters. Moore has an agenda beyond titillation. The work voices an impassioned defense of artistic freedom that stresses that Lost Girls: Book 3, The Great Challenged in 2007 at a public fiction and fantasies aren't the and the Terrible. Topshelf library. Reason: sexual content. same as actual events and Moore, Alan Productions Retained. behavior. A

A series of three sexually explicit graphic novels by one of the most popular comic writers in which Wonderland's Alice, Oz's Dorothy, and Neverland's Wendy reveal their carnal natures by relating their past sexual encounters. Moore has an agenda beyond titillation. The work voices an Challenged in 2007at a public impassioned defense of artistic library. Reason: children & teens freedom that stresses that can access. Recommended fiction and fantasies aren't the Lost Girls: Books 1,2,3, reclassification to a restricted same as actual events and Moore, Alan Topshelf Productions area. Retained with no change behavior. A

Challenged in 2012 in a public A comic book series which League of Extraordinary library by an individual. Reason: began in 1999. It was initially Moore, Allan; Gentlemen; America’s Best sexual content unsuited to age. based on a "Justice League of illustrated by Comics; Top Shelf; Retained; relocated from teen to Victorian England" but has Kevin O-Neill. Knockabout Comics adult section. since expanded. A

The story of an English teacher who muses endlessly on the meanings of language, even at times when she should be experiencing intense emotion. She witnesses an event that leads to a grisly murder and Challenged at the Multnomah becomes sexually involved County Library in 1997. Reason: with the cop investigating the Moore, Susannah In the Cut, Plume. unknown. Retained. case. A As creationist scientists have carefully studied this geological phenomenon, they have concluded that Mount St. Helens accomplished the same Footprints in the Ash: The Challenged at the Multnomah sort of geologic work that Explosive Story of Mount St. County Library in 2005. Reason biblical creationists attribute to Morris, John D. Helens, Master Books. unknown. Retained. Noah's flood. A

Originally published in 1970, Challenged at the Portland Public Morrison's first novel focuses The Bluest Eye, Random Schools in 2004. Reason: graphic on an 11-year-old Black girl Morrison, Toni House. violent & sexual content. Retained. named Pecola Breedlove. A

Young Thomas refuses to wear his new snowsuit, despite the pleas of his mother, his teacher and even his principal. When Challenged at the Salem-Keizer everyone's best efforts lead Public Schools in 2001. Reason: only to comedic chaos, they all the material is contrary to agree it's best to let Thomas Thomas' Snowsuit, Annick District's behavior policies. suit himself. For pre-school Munsch, Robert Press. Retained. through second grade. E

Challenged at the Salem Public A witch pig's one passion in Library in 1997. Reason: emphasis life, to fly on the wind, is Murphy, Shirley Pig Who Could Conjure the on witches, the occult, sorcery seriously endangered when a R. Wind, Atheneum. and incantations. Retained. demon puts a spell on her. E

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 2001. Reason: Muy Interesante Muy Interesante, (periodical). nudity. Retained. Spanish-language magazine. A

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1991. Reasons: A guide outlining methods to Improvised Radio Jamming outlines covert methods of radio intercept and jam enemy radio Techniques: Electronic communications interference & frequencies. Covers techniques Myers, Guerrilla Warfare, Paladin suggests using the information in used by the Special Forces and Lawrence W. Press. illegal acts. Retained. terrorists. A Three student filmmakers set out into the forest to film a documentary on a legend known as The Blair Witch. As they become lost in the woods, an unseen evil begins to stalk and harass them. They soon realize that what they are filming is not a legend, but Myrick, Daniel Challenged at the Tillamook their own descent into a & Eduardo Blair Witch Project , (video). County Library in 2000. Reason: horrifying encounter with the Sanchez Artisan Home Entertainment profanity. Retained. supernatural. A

The entire series was challenged in Nakamura, a public library in 2011: Reason: Shungiku & too sexually explicit; may Katherine legitimize alternative sexual Schilling Junjo Romantica; Blu behaviors. Retained Manga series graphic novel A

An exploration of the ways that anime presents social and cultural issues such as alienation, gender inequality, and teenage angst in an in- depth and sophisticated manner, uncovering the identity conflicts, fears over rapid Anime from Akira to Princess Challenged at the Multnomah technological advancement, Napier, Susan Mononoke , Palgrave County Library in 2003. Reason: and other key themes present in Jolliffe Macmillan. inappropriate pictures. Retained. much of Japanese animation. A

Retelling of the fairy tale, "Rumpelstiltskin," in which a strange little man helps a Challenged in a public library in miller's daughter spin straw Napoli, Donna 2010 with a request to reclassify as into gold for the king on the Jo & Richard adult. Reason: too mature for condition that she will give him Tchen Spinners; Dutton young teens. Not reclassified. her first-born child. YA

The story of wildlife conservationists Mark and Delia Owens' journey through the heart of Southern Africa in Challenged at the Salem Public search of a prime research site African Odyssey, (video). Library in 1998. Reason: concern where they can find wildlife in National National Geographic about stoning/beating to death of a habitat untouched by the Geographic Television Education Films, wildebeest. Retained. intrusion of civilization. A Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 2002. Reason: Learn Gun Safety with Eddie introducing children to firearms National Rifle Eagle: Level 1 Workbook, use without adult supervision. Association National Rifle Association. Retained. Gun safety for children J

Challenged at the Liberty Alice is in love, and her Elementary School in Albany in romance with Peter provides 1992. Reason: sections that some awkward yet funny referred to french kissing, moments as she tries to sort Naylor, Phyllis Alice In Rapture, Sort of, descriptions of bras and breasts. out the world of dating and Reynolds Atheneum. Retained. first boyfriends. YA

Alice is in love, and her Challenged at Salem-Keizer School romance with Peter provides District in 1998. Reason: too some awkward yet funny advanced for pre-teens. moments as she tries to sort Naylor, Phyllis Alice In Rapture, Sort of, Restricted to middle school or out the world of dating and Reynolds Atheneum. above. first boyfriends. YA

Challenged at the Corvallis-Benton County Library in 2006. Reason: concerns that the depiction of an affair between a student and teacher is inappropriate for youth; A high school student enters requested reclassification. into an affair with one of her Nelson, R.A. Teach Me, Razorbill. Retained in Young Adult collection. teachers YA

Challenged at the Corvallis-Benton County Library in 2004. Reason: concern expressed that the magazine was bigoted because of Nest: A Quarterly of Interiors, cartoons in the magazine. Nest was published quarterly Nest magazine (periodical). Retained. from 1997 until winter 2003-04 A

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1992. Reason: concerns that "kids will imitate what they see on the video which Soccer instructional video. Winning Kick, (video).New might cause injury to other Practice Makes Perfect, Soccer New Image StudiosImage Studios. children." Retained Series, Tape 2 J

Challenged at the Corvallis-Benton County Library in 2004. Reason: New York children seeing a sexually explicit A magazine on literature, Review of Books New York Review of Books cover. Retained. published 20 times a year. A Drawing on a wide range of published sources, Newman has compiled a thorough how- Challenged at the Multnomah to guide. Along the way, she Whole Lesbian Sex Book: A County Library in 2000. Reason: offers a primer in sexual Passionate Guide for All of explicit sexual descriptions. politics and lesbian manners at Newman, Felice Us, Cleis Press. Retained. the turn of the century. A

Challenged at Multnomah County Heather discovers that her Library in 1992. Reason: presents family is different than her Heather Has Two Mommies, a picture of misguided morality & classmates, but soon learns Newman, Leslea Alyson Books. deviate living. Retained. that all families are unique. J

Heather discovers that her Challenged at the Cottage Grove family is different than her Heather Has Two Mommies, Lane County Head Start Center in classmates, but soon learns Newman, Leslea Alyson Books. 1994. Removed. that all families are unique. J

Heather discovers that her Challenged at Multnomah County family is different than her Heather Has Two Mommies, Library in 1994. Reason: promotes classmates, but soon learns Newman, Leslea Alyson Books. a lesbian life style. Retained. that all families are unique. J

Challenged in 2007 by a parent in a public library. Reason: unsuited Heather discovers that her to age group; homosexual family is different than her Heather Has Two Mommies, content; offensive language and classmates, but soon learns Newman, Leslea Alyson Books. religious viewpoint. Retained that all families are unique. E

Dan, an aspiring novelist, cannot help but feel immensely attracted to Alice, a young American waitress and stripper who is in London after escaping from a failed relationship. After some time Dan meets Anna, a photographer who also attracts him. From there, things go downhill for Alice and Dan. Eventually Dan, Alice, Anna Challenged at a public library in and Alice's fiancé, Larry, take Nichols, Mike May 2010. Reasons: sexually part in a twisted dance of and Patrick Closer. Columbia TriStar explicit and offensive language. deceit, guilt and anger. Based Marber Entertainment (video) Retained on the play by Patrick Marber. A Challenged at the Cedar Mill Community Library in 2002. Reason: over sexual language and Michael Smith and Gregory disrespect for people with mental Collins strike a business deal Nicholson, Geoff Bedlam Burning , Overlook. illness. Retained. that complicates their lives. A

Since the car accident that claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras and hear people's Challenged in a public library by a thoughts, and she goes out of parent in 2011. Requested moving her way to hide from other to adult section. Reason: violence, people until she meets Damen, concern about dark and graphic another psychic teenager who Noel, Alyson Evermore; St. Martin's Griffin content. Retained; not moved is hiding even more mysteries. YA

Challenged by a parent in the Hood River County Schools in 1998. Reason: inappropriate for middle school students because of the evil intentions of its characters, graphic descriptions of gore and mutilations and A re-telling of the warrior Beowulf: A New Telling, Hill descriptions of monstrous Beowulf and his defeat of the Nye, Robert and Wang. characters. Retained monster Grendel. J

Challenged at the Jefferson Middle School Library in Eugene in Thirteen-year-old Joss copes 1987. Reason: sexual references. with changing relationships as Removed because elementary her best friend, Fletcher, students also use library. suddenly starts seeing her as a Just Good Friends, Transferred to another school girl and her parents show signs O'Connor, Jane HarperCollins; Dell. with no younger children. of marital tension at home. YA

The authoritative guide to the Challenged at the Multnomah Catholic Church in the United County Library in 1991. Reason: States, including personnel public funds should not be changes, new appointments and Official Catholic Official Catholic Directory, P. expended on religious books. assignments, and contact Directory J. Kenedy & Sons. Retained. information. A Young Ken McLaughlin spends his days on his family's Wyoming ranch with his head in the clouds, surrounded by endless blue skies, wide-open spaces, and beautiful horses. To his brusque, practical father, Challenged at the Oregon City the boy is an enigma and a Library in 1991. Reason: objection disappointment. Then one day, to library having this book in the Ken's life is filled with new children's department because of purpose when he finds Flicka, a profane language. Retained magnificent filly as wild as she O'Hara, Mary My Friend Flicka, without restriction. is fast. J

The author uses diaries, court records, and interviews with the killer himself to present Challenged at the Multnomah Keith Hunter Jesperson's County Library in 200). Reason: version of why he became a I: The Creation of a Serial violent content of the book could serial killer and how he killed Olson, Jack Killer, St. Martin's. cause emotional trauma. Retained. his victims. A

Challenged at the Hillsboro Public A 1993 rap album by the NBA Library in 1994. Reasons: explicit, basketball star. The first single, obscene lyrics; degrading to "(I Know I Got) Skillz," hit the O'Neal, Shaq Diesel , Jive (audio women description of sex acts. Top 40 on the Billboard Hot Shaquille cassette). Retained. 100 charts. A

Challenged at the Salem-Keizer School District in 2001.Reason: A collection of more than 170 illustrations that are disgusting, schoolyard rhymes, ranging inappropriate, and/or from insults and riddles to unnecessary. Restricted to tongue twisters, jeers and Opie, Iona I Saw Esau, Candlewick. teachers jump-rope rhymes. E

Provides understandable and comprehensive information to guide families through a Challenged at the Multnomah number of legal topics. In County Library in 2000. Reason: addition, it provides cross- Legal Issues for Older Adults: the book is cataloged in sociology references, glossaries and An Oregon Legal Information rather than legal materials; resource lists to direct readers Oregon State and Reference Guide, Oregon requested classification change. to other sources of Bar State Bar. Reclassified. information. A A step by step guide, with examples, of how to write all types of notes and letters including love, break-up and For the Love of Letters; a Challenged in 2007 in a public erotic letters; apology, thank- 21st Century Guide to the Art library. Reason: sexual content. you, recommendation and O'Shea, Samar of Letter Writing, Collins Retained cover letters. A

Based on a real incident, Sada Abe's 1936 murder and castration of her lover, this file depicts a man and a woman consumed by a destructive love Challenged at the Multnomah in a political environment in County Library in March, 2000. Japan of imperialism and Oshima, Nagisa In the Realm of the Senses, Reason: explicit sex and violence. increasing governmental director (video). Retained. control. A

Based on a real incident, Sada Abe's 1936 murder and castration of her lover, this file depicts a man and a woman consumed by a destructive love in a political environment in Challenged at the Multnomah Japan of imperialism and Oshima, Nagisa In the Realm of the Senses, County Library July 2000. Reason. increasing governmental director (video). pornographic. Retained. control. A

Based on a real incident, Sada Abe's 1936 murder and castration of her lover, this file In the Realm of the Senses depicts a man and a woman Dans l’empire des sens (Other consumed by a destructive love titles: Dans l’empire des sens, Challenged in a public library in in a political environment in Ai no korīda, L'empire des 2009. Reason: sexual content Japan of imperialism and Oshima, Nagisa sens)(video) Criterion inappropriate for a public library. increasing governmental director Collection Retained. control. In Japanese A

Challenged in a public library in Junie B. Jones and a Little 1999. Reason: negative content, Junie has a new baby brother Monkey Business, Random slang and offensive statements. who her grandmother calls Pack, Barbara House. Retained. "the cutest little monkey." E Challenged Fairview Elementary School in the Reynolds School District in 1990. Reasons: children are encouraged to make choices for adventure with no concern for danger; thought process This book tells the story of the Underground Kingdom transferable to experimentation upside-down world hanging (Choose Your Own with drugs, sex, alcohol, running from the bottom side of the Packard, Edward Adventure), Bantam Books. away. Retained. earth's crust. J

Challenged at the Salem-Keizer School District in 1996. Reason: the way the book handled issues Packer, Kenneth such as dating, premarital sex, L. and Jeannine Let's Talk about Health, homosexuality and masturbation. A health book geared for Bower Sebco. Outcome unknown. adolescents. YA

This book is aimed at the Pandolfini's Endgame beginning or intermediate Course: Basic Endgame player. It consists of 239 Concepts Explained by specific endgame positions, America's Leading Chess Challenged at the Multnomah progressing from elementary Palmer, Happ & Teacher, Fireside Chess County Library in 1991. Reasons: endings to some subtle minor Martha Cheney Library. errors in information. Retained. piece and pawn situations. A

A parent challenged the performance of the theme song on this CD in 1995 by Salem kindergarten students in a Halloween classroom Witches' Brew Pot Full of presentation. Reason: a song Songs to teach skills and Pandolfini, Songs for Oral Language about the sin of witchcraft, which encourage the use of Bruce Development; Activity Records is religion. Retained imagination. J

An anthology of essays in which the most absurd Challenged at the Corvallis-Benton positions are defended with County Library in 1996. Reason: calm intelligence and witty subjects covered included rationality. Topics range from necrophilia as well as containing the sexual liberation of Apocalypse Culture, Amok perversity and sensationalism. necrophiliacs to strong cases Parfrey, Adam Press. Retained. against art and agriculture. A A racist cop receives a heart transplant from a black lawyer he hates, who returns as a ghost Challenged at the Multnomah to ask the cop to help take Parriott, James County Library in 1996. Reason: down the men who murdered L. Director Heart Condition, (video). offensive language. Retained. him A

A reference book containing an alphabetical list of slang, One of 5 books challenged at the vernacular vocabulary not Bend Senior High School in 1993 generally acceptable in formal Partridge's Concise by a member of the Oregon usage, including information Dictionary of Slang and Citizens Alliance. Reason: teaches given for each word, including Unconventional English, children to use vulgar, useless meaning, pronunciation and Partridge, Eric Macmillan. expressions. Retained. etymology. A

The friendship between young Jess and Leslie grows as they meet in Terabithia, their secret hiding place where the two of them rule as king and queen. Then tragedy strikes and their kingdom is threatened. Only when Jess comes to grips with Challenged at the Multnomah this tragedy does he finally Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia, Harper County Library in 1990. Reason understand the gift Leslie has Katherine Trophy. unknown. Retained. given him. J

Challenged at the Tigard Public Library in 1990. Reasons: graphic This book, the subject of a pictures from nude lesbian / BBC TV documentary, traces vampire European films; sadistic the history of cinematic sex. Requested restriction from vampires from Nosferatu to the Seal of Dracula, Crown children. Retained with no present-day ghouls of Terrance Pattison, Barrie Publishers. restrictions. Fisher and Mario Bava. A

Challenged at the McMinnville Two junior high boys lose their Public Library in 2001. Reason: not "uncool" status when they kiss appropriate for young children. girls and foil some football Schernoff Discoveries, Reclassified from children's to YA team thugs in this comedy set Paulsen, Gary Yearling. collection. in the 1950s. J

Challenged by a third grade student’s parent at Cecil Sly The story of a 13 year-old Elementary School in Prineville in boy’s search for his parents 2011. Reason: violence. Retained after they were taken prisoner as reading material in the by British soldiers and Iroquois curriculum for sixth-grade and at the beginning of the Paulsen, Gary Woods Runner; Random above. Revolutionary War. YA A first person account of a boy whose alcoholic parents send Challenged in a public library in him to stay with farmers in a 2011. Reason: it will encourage remote area of Minnesota. The Harris and Me: A Summer alcoholism, use of offensive story focuses on the humorous Remembered ; Harcourt Brace language, cruelty to animals, and events of a city boy learning to Paulson, Gary. & Co viewing pornography. Retained live on a farm. J

A 1969 Western film in which a group of aging outlaws hopes Challenged at the Salem Public to have one final score while Library in 2001. Reason: violence. the West is turning into a Peckinpah, Sam Wild Bunch, (video). Retained. modern society. A

This sixth season CBS Showtime reality series offers Challenged in a public library in viewers an aggressive, April 2010. Reason: The humorous expose of taboo description provides no indication topics, using the duo's that there is explicit, violent porn trademark humor, knowledge in the "War on Porn" episode. of carnival tricks as well as Penn & Teller: Bullshit ; Requested warning label. Retained hidden cameras and blatant Penn and Teller Showtime Entertainment with no label. confrontation. A

Between the Sheets: A Collection of Erotic Bedtime Challenged at the Multnomah Penthouse Stories, Penthouse County Library 2002. Reason: A compilation of erotic stories magazine International. graphic sexual language. Retained. from Penthouse. A

Mina Pereira was born with antennae on her head, and no matter what surgery doctors attempt, they keep growing back. A heartbreaking story of Challenged at the Multnomah a little girl's struggle to survive County Library in 2002. Reason: a family so dysfunctional that it Peres Da Costa, Homework, Bloomsbury disparity between cover and constantly teeters on the edge Suneeta Publishing. content. Retained. of chaos. A

A top news anchor risks his job and his life to battle the Challenged at the Multnomah politically correct attitudes of County Library in 2001. Reason: members of the Channel 6 anti-gay, anti-abortion material. news team who are hiding the Peretti, Frank E. Prophet, Crossway Books. Retained. truth about his father's death.. A Walter Adams' deepest passion is for his music but his greatest love is for his son. A lifelong free spirit, Walter teaches his gifted son Henry, to always think with his head-- but to play music with his heart. The two are an unstoppable team until Walter suffers a nervous breakdown. Suddenly forced to Challenged at the Corvallis-Benton reunite with their estranged County Library in 2004. Reason: family, Walter and Henry will profanity; requested the book be have to find a way to keep their Petrie, Daniel; Walter and Henry, (video). moved to the adult area. special bond and their music Director Showtime Entertainment Reclassified. intact. A

Removed by a library staff Alanna finds a way to switch member in 1989 but later places with her twin, Thom, returned to the shelves of the and take his place as a knight in David Hill Elementary School in training at the palace of King Hillsboro. Reasons: sexual Roald. Disguising herself as a Alanna: Song of the Lioness, references and the use of an boy, Alanna begins her training Pierce, Tamara Book One, Knopf. amulet to prevent pregnancy. as a page in the royal court. YA

Removed by a library staff member in 1989 but later returned to the shelves of the David Hill Elementary School in Alanna of Trebond continues In the Hand of the Goddess: Hillsboro. Reasons: sexual her masquerade as Alan in this, Song of the Lioness, Book 2 , references and the use of an the second book in the Song of Pierce, Tamara Knopf. amulet to prevent pregnancy. the Lioness series. YA

Removed by a library staff member in 1989 but later The third in the Song of the returned to the shelves of the Lioness series finds the title David Hill Elementary School in heroine, Alanna; her psychic Woman Who Rides Like a Hillsboro. Reasons: sexual cat, Faithful; and the older Man: Song of the Lioness, references and the use of an man-at-arms, Coram, among Pierce, Tamara Book 3, Knopf. amulet to prevent pregnancy. the desert tribes of the Bazhir. YA

The complete saga of Alanna the Lioness from her years as a Challenged at the Multnomah page – disguised as a boy – to County Library in 2003. Reason: her triumphant adventures as a adult content of tapes for knight of Tortall and her rise to Song of the Lioness series, children; requested that they be the highest rank of King’s Pierce, Tamara Knopf (children's cassettes). re-cataloged adult. Retained. Champion. E Challenged in a public library by an individual in 2012. Reason: A very funny picture book Concern that reading this book about a silly rabbit family and Dumb Bunnies Go to the Zoo, may result in confusion and their adventures by the author Pilkey, Dav The; Blue Sky Press stupidity. Retained of Captain Underpants. E

Challenged at the Lake Oswego Public Library in 2001. Reason: language contained in background Planet Earth Silver: A Skateboard Video, music in video Retained and Video (video). reclassified as YA J

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1996. Reason: if children can look at and read the Playboy magazine "it can lead to very dirty A men's magazine with literary magazine Playboy, (periodical). minds." Retained. articles. A

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1996. Reason: If it is given to children on request Playboy might result in a child pervert. A men's magazine with literary m agazine Playboy, (periodical). Retained. articles. A Challenged at the Lake Oswego Public Library in 1996. Reason: magazine is pornography and doesn't belong in the library; it violates community and family values. Retained; parental Playboy permission required for children A men's magazine with literary magazine Playboy, (periodical). to view or check out. articles. A

Private Christian school put up display in at the Forest Grove Library on 3 bulletin boards in the children's area available to display primary school student art from local schools. Library user challenged the inclusion of Religious Display by a drawings depicting the 7 days of Exhibit of student art from a Christian school on bulletin creation. Reason: violation of Christian school that included board available to display separation of church & state. drawings of turkeys, pilgrims, Policy - Display primary student art. Retained. and the 7 days of creation. j Challenged in a public library by clergy in 2013. Reason: lack of filtering on computers & wireless network. Library District Board voted to filter children's computers in children's room for Policy - Internet "pornography" Internet Access

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1990. Reason: access to adult materials "which they would be banned from Policy - Minors' Children's Access to Adult viewing because of age" should be Access Materials prohibited. Retained. Adult materials A

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 2003. Reason: they promote violence, sexual A Policy - Minors' Music with parental advisory activity and inappropriate All music with parental & Access labels. language. Retained. advisory labels. YA

Challenged in a school library by library staff. Reason: zombies are violent and inappropriate for elementary school children. Requested that all zombie books Policy - Minors' be removed from the library. Access Multiple Retained Books about Zombies J

Would have restricted Citizen's initiative in Josephine government agencies from County in 1990 to restrict minor' giving birth control facts to Policy- Minor's Birth Control Information; access to birth control minors without parental Access restricting minors' access information. Defeated. consent

Fifteen-year-old Tasha Dawson narrates a tale of teenage motherhood. Balancing her honor-roll grades with the perils of surviving inner-city Challenged at the Portland Public Buffalo, N.Y., Tasha gives Schools in 2004. Reason: birth to Imani, a child Porter, Connie Imani All Mine, Mariner pornographic passages and lewd conceived in violence and Rose Books. language. Retained. given a name that means "faith." A Linda Strong, the younger of two orphaned girls, grows tired of being mistreated by her sister Eileen and leaves home to start a life of her own as a nature writer. Linda's friendships, and her attempts Challenged the Clatskanie Library at independence, are quite District in 1991. Reason: racism engaging, while her work in Porter, Gene Her Father's Daughter, and bigotry against the Japanese. the outdoors brings nature to Stratton Kessinger Publishing. Removed. life. A

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 2004. Reason: Portland Portland Mercury, language and sexual content. An alternative weekly Mercury (periodical). Retained. newspaper. A

This is an instructional book. Published in 1967, the book was written to protest the United States government over their involvement in the Vietnam war. The book contains recipes and instructions for the manufacture of explosives, Challenged at the Multnomah drugs, rudimentary County Library in 1999. Reason: telecommunications hacking The Anarchist Cookbook, Lyle concern that it is available to devices and other dangerous Powell, William Stuart; Barricade Books. minors. Retained. and illegal items. A

Challenged at the Little Butte Intermediate School in Eagle Point in 1987. Reason: the book could Prelutsky offers a dozen Nightmares: Poems to "disturb a child's sleep and offered original poems on scary topics Trouble Your Sleep, no learning experience." Placed in – ghouls, vampires, etc. – for Prelutsky, Jack Greenwillow. the "reserved" section. young readers. J

Challenged at the Washington Elementary School in Pendleton in 1993. Reasons: violent, scary; Nightmares: Poems to could cause nightmares; does not Prelutsky offers a dozen Trouble Your Sleep , teach good, healthy morals. original poems on scary topics Prelutsky, Jack Greenwillow. Restricted. – ghouls, vampires, etc. J Challenged by a parent at the Firwood Elementary School in Sandy in 1995. Reasons: belief From a "mud-encrusted" Headless Horseman Rides that the book is evil & that mummy to the eponymous Tonight: More Poems to students would not be able to rider, these 12 creepy Trouble Your Sleep, differentiate between real * made- creations are accompanied by Prelutsky, Jack HarperTrophy . up". Retained. gory black-and-white artwork. J

Challenged at the Powell Valley From a "mud-encrusted" Headless Horseman Rides Elementary School library in mummy to the eponymous Tonight: More Poems to Gresham in 1995 by a parent. rider, these 12 creepy Trouble Your Sleep, Reasons: contains evil stories & is creations are accompanied by Prelutsky, Jack HarperTrophy. satanic. Retained. gory black-and-white artwork. J

One of 12 titles challenged by a parent at Ackerman Junior High in in Canby in 1987. A materials review committee recommended all be retained. This title was 1 of 4 that the parent appealed in 1988. Reasons: Could encourage young minds to pursue the occult; portraying the Bible as myth; Four children in an English ridicule toward Christianity; village meet a leprechaun who secular humanism indoctrination. has just awakened from a 200- Price, Susan Devil's Piper, Greenwillow. Retained. year-long sleep. J

Challenged in a public library in Quoyle, an emotionally-beaten 2008 by a clergyman & his wife man, moves from New York to who so not have children in the Newfoundland with his young school district on behalf of a daughter in search of his family religious organization. Reason: roots and inner peace. Winner sexual & homosexual content; of the National Book Award unsuitable for age group; violence, for Fiction, the Irish Times religious viewpoint. Requested International Fiction Prize, and Proulx, Annie Shipping News, The; Scribner removal. Retained. the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A Challenged at the Douglas County Library System in 1989. Reasons: using drugs is portrayed beneficial; main character smokes opium in order to remember the past, which leads her to solve the Sally Lockhart finds herself mystery; drugs have no side enmeshed in the perplexing The Ruby in the Smoke, Laurel effects. Retained and reclassified clues surrounding her father's Pullman, Philip Leaf. from children's to YA. death, in this Victorian thriller. YA

Lyra Belacqua, an orphan growing up within the precincts Challenged at the Salem-Keizer of Oxford University, lives in a School District in 2001. Reason: universe in which science, demon possession and satanic theology and magic are closely Pullman, Philip Golden Compass, Del Rey. practices. Retained. allied. J

Challenged in 2008 in a public library by a member of the clergy and a religious organization. Reason: concern that it sends a Golden Compass (Video), message to children to defy Movie, based on the book, Pullman, Philip SEGA authority and to glorify evil. directed by Chris Weitz J

Queen risked his life when he joined the Mongols as bearded biker Billy St. John. His adventures with one of America’s most notorious bike Challenged at the Seaside Public gangs, where he explains Under And Alone: The True Library in 2005. Reason: because "murder and mayhem have Story Of The Undercover of concerns about language and a become simply a lifestyle Agent Who Infiltrated belief that the book promotes choice," resulted in the America's Most Violent criminal activity, and would be a convictions of more than 50 Outlaw Motorcycle Gang, bad influence on young people. Mongols and earned him an Queen, William Random House. Retained. impressive cache of awards. A

Documents performance artist and comic, video producer and Challenged in a public library in sometime peepshow stripper 2008. Reason: concern that Julia Query's journey to help Query, Julia and Live Nude Girls Unite ( video), sexually explicit material is visible organize the only strippers Vicky Funari First Run Features and available to children. Retained union in the U.S. A A children's book author known for his beautiful illustrations becomes entranced by a 16-year-old runaway girl. His obsession with her, Challenged at the Multnomah expressed in his paintings, County Library in 1988. Reason: begins a forbidden relationship the sexual nature of subject that is threatened by her matter, particularly between adult disappearance – and her true Rampling, Anne Belinda, Arbor House. & child. Retained. identity. A

The adventures of Henry, a six- year-old from Atlantic City whose heroes are early Christians and who would like to be a saint. He has a photographic memory and is always reciting scriptures to the consternation of adults. When his father, a crooked Challenged in the Tillamook Public casino guard, is jailed Henry is Library in 2001. Reason: not put in a home, but manages to Reeves, Fredrick Henry of Atlantic City, Vintage. appropriate for any age. Retained escape. A

Six-year-old Henry is a neglected child growing up in an Atlantic City hotel and Challenged at the Tillamook casino. Obsessed with the County Library in 2001. Reason: ancient Gnostics, he imagines Henry of Atlantic City, anti-family, anti-church, anti-God. himself a saint in 5th century Reeves, Fredrick Vintage. Retained. Byzantium. A

Before outlining some of the options facing the Serbs, Croats and Muslims living in Bosnia today, Reger provides a lucid account of the Yugoslav War Challenged at the Corvallis-Benton and the peace process. Good- County Library in 2003. Reason: quality black-and-white Rebuilding of Bosnia, Lucent the subject matter is disturbing to photographs and political Reger, James P. Books. children. Retained. cartoons appear throughout. YA

A comedy in which A Jewish Challenged in a public library in lawyer's aged mother 2008. Reason: portrayal of constantly harms his love life, Where's Poppa? (video); homosexual behaviors; nudity and and he considers various means Reiner, Carl MGM Home Entertainment use of offensive language. Retained of getting rid of her. A Reiss, Mike, Xeth Feinberg, A feature-length extension of Tal Vigderson, Challenged in a public library in the animated TV series Queer and Mike Queer Duck: The Movie. 2011. Reason: homosexual and Duck, created by frequent The Mendel Paramount anti-family content. Retained. Simpsons scripter Mike Reiss A

Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. As the horrible war plods on, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against Challenged at the Cedar Ridge the principles of hate that Elementary School in Sandy in meaninglessly pit young men of 1993. Reason: language. the same generation but Recommended editing by different uniforms against each Remarque, All Quiet on the Western expurgation. Retained without other – if only he can come out Erich Maria Front, Ballantine. expurgation. of the war alive. A

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1987. Reason: the occult topic could be Two girls suspect their Witch's Sister, Aladdin; frightening and traumatic for neighbor is a witch and trying Reynolds, Phyllis Atheneum. children. Retained. to convert one girl's sister.

The third and concluding chapter in Anne Rice's erotic retelling of the sleeping beauty fairy tale sees Beauty, Tristan, Challenged at Multnomah County Laurent and some secondary Library in 1995. Reason: concern slaves from the village about "erotic (pornographic...)" kidnapped and whisked away Beauty's Release , Dutton & novels in the collection at the to more sensual adventures in Rice, Ann Co. taxpayers 'expense. Retained. an unnamed Arabian kingdom. A

Challenged at the Douglas County Library System in 2000. Reason: Richards, Dick; nudity and availability to children. Based on Raymond Chandler's Director Farewell My Lovely, (video). Retained. mystery with the same title. A

Challenged at the Douglas County Library System in 1992. Reason: An accident leaves her profanity; gives children paralyzed from the chest down, Richmond, impression that use of obscene but Sally learns to see the joy Sandra Wheels for Walking, Signet. language acceptable. Retained. in life again. YA Challenged by a parent in a public library in 2008. Reason: A little girl is prompted by a recommended that the it be book about Stranger Danger to labeled in a way that would let tell her teacher she is being parents know it is about child abused by her father. The Not in Room 204, Albert sexual abuse. Retained with no father's actions are implied, but Riggs, Shannon Whitman change. not specifically stated. E

A collection of black-comedy cartoons created by a British Challenged by a parent at the humorist featuring bunnies Central Linn High School in Halsey using bizarre methods to in 2008. Reason: unsuitable for attempt suicide. Winner of the Book of Bunny Suicides , anyone & especially children; no 2007 Garden State (N.J.) Teen Riley, Andy Plume curriculum value. Retained non-fiction award. YA

Challenged at the Woodburn Rip City Public Library in 2000. Reason: A monthly magazine about the magazine Rip City, (periodical). beer ads. Reclassified to adult Portland Trailblazers. YA

Rhonda Silverstar (nee Silverstern), the Brooklyn-born stripper currently headlining at Plotsky's Burlesque in Newark, N.J., is appalled when Tush, one of her back-up girls, is brutally murdered and the Challenged at the Multnomah police don't seem to care. Take it Off, Take it All Off!: A County Library in 1994. Reason: Rhonda sets out to investigate Ritz, David Novel, Dutton. book is "just plain filth". Retained. the murder herself. A

This book concludes Roberts' Key Trilogy , in which mortal Challenged at the Multnomah women quest to unlock the County Library in 2005. Reason spellbound souls of ancient Roberts, Nora Key of Valor, Jove. unknown. Retained. demigoddesses. A Written by the creator & designer of Leisure Suit Larry Challenged at the Multnomah Adventure games; contains Roberts, Ralph Official Book of Leisure Suit County Library in 1993. Reason: background information, hints and Al Lowe Larry, Compute Books. "juvenile pornography". Retained. and tips. A Challenged at the McBride Elementary School in St. Helens in 1993. Reasons: offensive language; cat named S.O.B.; content violent & gruesome; negative attitude towards an older Rob admits having seen a Roberts, Willo The View from the Cherry character. Restricted to mature murder, but no one believes David Tree, Aladin Paperbacks. 5th & 6th graders. him – except the murderer. J

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1996. Reason: kids could learn things from this book that could get them in trouble. "The entire contents is Mexican Slang is a bilingual Robinson, Mexican Slang: A Guide, how to request different sex acts guide to slang words and Linton H. Bueno Books. in Spanish slang. Retained. phrases. A

Challenged at the Multnomah Addie's Thanksgiving gesture Thanksgiving Treasure, County Library in 1990.Reason toward a crotchety old man Rock, Gail Yearling. unknown. Retained. enriches both their lives. YA

Challenged at the Oakland High School in 1992. Reason: irreverent, negative, and sexual attitudes pervading the publication; subscribing with district funds does not promote district educational goals. Subscription not renewed; A biweekly American-based Rolling Stone students need parental permission magazine devoted to music, YA, magazine Rolling Stone, (periodical). to check out back issues politics and popular culture. A

Challenged at the Corvallis-Benton County Library in 1992. Reason: 3 nude men on the cover of an issue; indecent; restricted access A biweekly American-based Rolling Stone requested. Retained without magazine devoted to music, magazine Rolling Stone, (periodical). restriction. politics and popular culture. A

A list of essential oils for Challenged at the Eugene Public treating certain conditions, Library in 1990. Reason: advocates with each oil described in recreational drug use of herbs. detail. Includes precautions Rose, Jeanne Herbs and Things, Last Gasp. Retained. and instructions for use. A Third book in a series. presents Challenged in a public library in the general principles of Master math : basic math and 2009. Reason: factually mathematics from grade school Ross, Debra pre-algebra; Career Press inaccurate. Removed. through college A

The sequel to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone sees Harry facing trouble at Challenged in Bend at the Three Hogwarts. Amid classes, bullies Rivers Elementary School in 2000. and ghosts, Harry must rescue Reason: references to witchcraft the school from a mysterious Harry Potter and the and concerns that the book would danger, and is faced with a Chamber of Secrets, lead children to hatred and trap set by the evil Lord Rowling, J.K. Scholastic. rebellion. Retained. Voldemort. J

After another awful summer with the Dursleys, Harry learns that he is being pursued by Challenged in Bend at the Three Sirius Black, an escaped Rivers Elementary School in 2000. prisoner from Azkaban. Sirius Reason: references to witchcraft heads for Hogwarts, trailed by and concerns that the book would his guards from Azkaban, the Harry Potter and the Prisoner lead children to hatred and foul Dementors, and trouble for Rowling, J.K. of Azkaban, Scholastic. rebellion. Retained Harry isn't far behind. J

Harry Potter's miserable life is Challenged in Bend at the Three turned upside down with an Rivers Elementary School in 2000. invitation to Hogwarts School Reason: references to witchcraft of Witchcraft and Wizardry – and concerns that the book would and with the discovery of his Harry Potter and the lead children to hatred and true identity. A tale of magic, Rowling, J.K. Sorcerer's Stone, Scholastic. rebellion. Retained full of wit and imagination. J

When Tad's spear flies to the bottom of a pond and Tad goes after it, the last thing he expects is to meet a water-spirit named Challenged at the Multnomah Azabel. This meeting is but the County Library in 2005. Reason first of strange things that Tad Rupp, Rebecca Waterstone, Candlewick. unknown. Retained. will face. YA

This graphic novel tells the story of Elric of Melniboné, king of ruins and lord of a Challenged at the Multnomah scattered race that once ruled Michael Moorcock's County Library in 2001. Reason: the world. This is a story of the Stormbringer, Dark Horse subject of sexual abuse accessible final battle between Law and Russell, P. Craig Comics/Topps. to children. Retained. Chaos. A Russo examines the portrayals of homosexuality and gender in One of 17 books challenged at the Hollywood films from the past Deschutes County Library in 1993 90 years, and makes by a member of the Oregon connections between the Citizens Alliance. Reason: the treatment of gays and lesbians The Celluloid Closet: materials exist to promote in film and in American society Homosexuality in the Movies, homosexuality and moral decay. at large. Regarded as a Russo, Vito Harper Paperbacks. Retained. definitive work on the subject. A

Challenged in an elementary school library in 2010. Reason: objection to religious content in a One person's interpretation of a Rylant, Cynthia Dog Heaven; Blue Sky Press school dog heaven. E

Challenged at the Beaverton School District in 1993. Reason: profanity; suggested removal from Sachar captures awkward The Boy Who Lost His Face, elementary school libraries. junior high school experiences Sachar, Louis Trumpet. Retained. with humor and sensitivity. J

Wayside School is 30 stories high with only one room on each floor. On the top floor is Mrs. Jewls' class, where order Challenged at the Multnomah has been abandoned in favor of County Library in 1998. Reason: nonsense and silliness. Each of Wayside School is Falling the content undermines value the 30 stories in this collection Down , Listening Library systems and teaches disrespect of features an unusual vignette or Sachar, Louis (audiocassette). people and property. Retained. character sketch. E

Challenged by a 13 year old at the Driftwood Public Library in Lincoln City in 1993. Reason: sexual content will encourage sexual experimentation & lead to Set in South Africa during the pregnancy or AIDS; suggested 1950s, this novel recounts Beyond Safe Boundaries, reclassification to adult or warning political turmoil and its effect Sacks, Margaret Puffin. label. Retained in YA collection. on a Jewish family. YA Expurgated by an apparent self- appointed censor at the Coquille Public Library in 1994 along with several other books. Most were mysteries and romances in which The fifth volume in the Prey single words and sexually explicit series. Ex-cop Lucas passages were whited out by a Davenport tracks a psychotic vandal who left either dots or murderer who is terrorizing a Sanford, John Winter Prey, Putnam. solid ink pen lines where the Wisconsin town. A A collection of 55 black-and- Challenged at the Multnomah white crime scene photographs County Library in 1996. Reason: made primarily between 1914 book will "help reader become and 1918 by New York City Evidence, Farrar Straus desensitized to brutality and police detectives investigating Sante, Luc Giroux. become dehumanized." Retained. murders and suicides. A

At a crossroads in his life, Rodolfo ("Chato") Medina remembers the year he was 14, a time of turmoil and change, not only for him but also for his family and friends. A Los Angeles barrio is the setting for Challenged at the Toledo High this novel about people caught Famous All Over Town, School in 1992. Reason: profanity. between two cultures, neither Santiago, Danny Plume. Retained. of which offers welcome. YA

Something peculiar is happening in Port Arbello. The children are disappearing, one by one. An evil history is Challenged at the Multnomah repeating itself. And one County Library in 1995. Reason: strange, terrified child has incidents in this book might result ended her silence with a scream Saul, John Suffer the Children, Dell. in "bad thoughts." Retained. that began a hundred years ago. YA

The craft book on origami Challenged by parents at the incorporates stories about Glendale school libraries in 1993. werewolves and vampires. It Saunders, Horrorgami: Spooky Reasons: satanic content; offers step-by-step instructions Richard and Paperfolding Just for Fun, illustrations could be frightening for "horrifying" origami Brian Macne Sterling Publishing Co. for younger readers. Removed. projects. J A three-part BBC production chronicles the story of Nan Astley, barely 18 and certain that life holds more for her than her oyster girl's existence. "You'll meet someone who'll have your head spinning and your legs turning to jelly," her sister promises. That someone turns out to be Kitty Butler, a music-hall entertainer, with whom Nan falls instantly in love. Nan follows her to London, where, as a double Challenged at the Corvallis-Benton act, they become the toast of County Library in 2006. Reason: London, until Kitty's "marriage Sax, Geoffrey nude sex between women. of convenience" breaks up the Director Tipping the Velvet, (video). Retained. act and Nan's heart. A

Schlesinger argues that the Challenged at the Multnomah rising cult of ethnicity threatens Disuniting of America: County Library 1992. Reason: ads a common American identity, Reflections on a Multicultural in the book; publisher has ulterior imperiling the civic ideals that Schlesinger, Society, Whittle motives ads beyond providing traditionally have bonded Arthur M. Communications information. Retained. immigrants into a nation. A

A group of parents supported by the Oregon Eagle Forum objected to the implementation of this program in Tigard middle schools in 1992. Reason: anti-Christian, anti-family, dangerous and School Quest self esteem and drug- resembling group therapy. Curriculum abuse prevention program Retained YA

Challenged in a public library in 2009. Reason: sexually explicit Likewise: The High School material inappropriate for the teen Comic Chronicles of Ariel collection. Retained with no One of a series of Schrag, Ariel Schrag; change. autobiographic graphic novels. YA Challenged in the South Umpqua School district in Myrtle Creek in 1985. Reason: the book presents a variety of concepts that are "controversial and inappropriate for seventh-graders." The book's sections on death planning, Schusky introduces the major extrasensory perception, genetic areas of study in the social planning, group therapy, and sciences by discussing the religious values have little to do theories of noted contributors Schusky, Ernest Introduction to Social with the teaching of basic social in the field – Redfield, Marx, L. Science , Prentice-Hall. science. Outcome unknown. Mills and others. YA

Challenged at Dry Hollow A sequel to Schwartz’ first Elementary School by a parent in collection of scary stories, More Scary Stories to Tell in 1988. Reasons: too scary and illustrated by Stephen Schwartz, Alvin the Dark, Harper Lippincott. violent. Outcome unknown Gammell. J

Challenged at the Salem-Keizer This spooky addition to Alvin Public Schools in 1990. Reasons: Schwartz's popular books on satanic illustrations; promotes evil American folklore is filled with Scary Stories to Tell in the intent and preying upon the tales of eerie horror and dark Schwartz, Alvin Dark, HarperTrophy. innocent; poorly written. Retained. revenge. For J

Challenged at the Hillsboro Elementary School by a parent in A sequel to Schwartz’ first 1992. Reasons: contents & collection of scary stories, More Scary Stories to Tell in illustrations. Reclassified from illustrated by Stephen Schwartz, Alvin the Dark, Harper Lippincott. fiction to folklore. Gammell. J

Challenged at the Westside Elementary School in Hood River Scary Stories 3: More Tales in 1994 by parents. Reason: the to Chill Your Bones, book's topic, writing style & A collection of chillers, ghost Schwartz, Alvin HarperCollins. pictures are too scary. Retained. stories and urban legends. J

Challenged at the Multnomah In a Dark, Dark Room and County Library in 1999. Reason: Seven scary stories based on Schwartz, Alvin Other Scary Stories, too scary for children's section. traditional folktales from and Dirk Zimmer HarperTrophy. Retained. various countries. E Challenged at the Douglas County Library System in 1994. Reasons: makes the wolf look like a good A retelling of the classic tale The True Story of the Three guy in a bad way; not proper to from the point of view of Scieszka, Jon Little Pigs, Viking Juvenile. read to children. Retained. Alexander T. Wolf. J

Henry Hill is a small time Challenged at the Multnomah gangster, who takes part in a County Library in 1996. Reason: robbery with Jimmy Conway shocking and cruel violence; and Tommy De Vito, two other "glamorizes and idolizes crime. gangsters who have set their Scorsese, Martin Goodfellas, (video). Retained. sights a bit higher. A

Challenged at the Multnomah Robert De Niro portrays fighter County Library in 1992. Reasons: Jake La Motta, an extremely concern about the effect of the difficult New York boxer who language & sexual scenes on has to contend with his own Scorsese, young viewers. Suggested a rating temper and jealousy, as well as Martin scheme for the video collection. the Mob and the boxing Director Raging Bull, (video). Retained with no rating scheme. establishment. A

Challenged at the Corvallis-Benton An allegorical interpretation of Scorsese, County Library in 2003. Reason: the last days of Jesus Christ, Martin Last Temptation of Christ, inaccurate portrayal of Christ. based on the book by Nikos Director (video). Retained Kazantzakis. A

Challenged in a public library in 2011 by an individual. Reason: sex education, unsuited to age. Concern that two of the crafts promote sexual activity. Requested With a sense of humor, Sedaris Simple Times: Crafts for Poor book be restricted to 19 years and shows how to make popular Sedaris, Amy People; Grand Central Pub. older. Retained. crafts. A

A boy and girl learn about Challenged at the Multnomah patience and understanding County Library in 1987. Reason: a while caring for a puppy that Some Swell Pup , Farrar; dog urinates on people, and has been abandoned on their Sendak, Maurice Random House. children abuse animals. Retained doorstep. J A surreal story of Mickey and his journey into the mysterious Challenged at the Salem-Keizer night kitchen where bakers are School District in 1992. Reason: preparing the "morning cake." frontal nudity of a male child in a Mickey is the savior of the few pictures; may be confusing to story getting the key ingredient, In the Night Kitchen, children as they are taught that milk, for the bakers to Sendak, Maurice HarperCollins. bodies are private. Retained. complete the cakes. J

A surreal story of Mickey and his journey into the mysterious Challenged by a parent at the night kitchen where bakers are Beaver Acres Elementary School in preparing the "morning cake." Beaverton in 1995. Reason: child's Mickey is the savior of the nudity in the book; requested story getting the key ingredient, In the Night Kitchen, parental warning. Retained with milk, for the bakers to Sendak, Maurice HarperCollins. no change. complete the cakes. E

A surreal story of Mickey and his journey into the mysterious night kitchen where bakers are Challenged at the William Knight preparing the "morning cake." Elementary School in Canby by a Mickey is the savior of the teacher in 1995. Reasons: nude story getting the key ingredient, In the Night Kitchen, pictures; book would contribute milk, for the bakers to Sendak, Maurice HarperCollins. to sexual abuse. Retained. complete the cakes. E

A surreal story of Mickey and Challenged at the Oregon City his journey into the mysterious Library in 1996. Reason: nudity of night kitchen where bakers are small boy in a picture book for preparing the "morning cake." children "would allow children... Mickey is the savior of the to believe that pornography... is story getting the key ingredient, In the Night Kitchen, okay to look at without their milk, for the bakers to Sendak, Maurice HarperCollins. parent's consent". Retained. complete the cakes. J

A surreal story of Mickey and his journey into the mysterious night kitchen where bakers are preparing the "morning cake." Mickey is the savior of the Challenged at the La Pine story getting the key ingredient, In the Night Kitchen, Elementary School in 1997. milk, for the bakers to Sendak, Maurice HarperCollins. Reason: nudity of boy Retained. complete the cakes. J A tale of siblings, jealousy and responsibility. The heroine is Challenged at the Salem-Keizer Ida, a young girl who's father is School District in 1993. Reasons: away, leaving her watch her pictures of goblins kidnapping a baby sister. When her sister is baby may cause nightmares & kidnapped by goblins, Ida must Outside Over There, arouse children's fears for go off on a magic adventure to Sendak, Maurice HarperCollins. themselves. Retained. rescue her. E

A tale of siblings, jealousy and responsibility. The heroine is Challenged by a teacher at the Ida, a young girl who's father is William Knight Elementary School away, leaving her watch her in Canby in 1995. Reasons: nudity; baby sister. When her sister is would encourage nudity & kidnapped by goblins, Ida must Outside Over There, contribute to sexual abuse. go off on a magic adventure to Sendak, Maurice HarperCollins. Retained. rescue her. E

Challenged at the Riley Creek Elementary School in Gold Beach in 1994 by a parent. Reason: A letter in the 3/94 issue about Seventeen (specifically the being gay contains Seventeen "Sex & Body" column), misinformation. & promotes An American magazine for magazine (periodical). homosexuality. Retained. teenage girls.

Challenged in Redmond High School. in 1994. A parent requested it be removed from the required reading list for sophomore honors classes. The story of stable boy Alan Reason: objectionable language, Strang (Daniel Radcliffe) and sexual messages and "Christian the psychiatrist who tries to insults". Removed from required unravel the religious and list; still on supplemental with sexual mystery that ensues parental permission required & in when the troubled teenager Shaffer. Peter Equus; Penguin school library. blinds six horses.

Lt. Luis Mendoza must contend with the trials of domestic life, as well as the murder of a young blonde whose body is Challenged at the Multnomah discovered in a playground and Root of All Evil, Carroll & County Library in 1995. Reason: the case of an elusive burglar- Shannon, Dell Graf. racist. Retained. rapist. A While playing hide and seek in the cemetery, Kris unwittingly calls the spirit of the legendary town Challenged in a public library in bully, Cryin' Ryan. Ryan's October 2009. Reason: sexually ghost implores Kris to help lay Legend of Cryin' Ryan; explicit content not appropriate for his spirit to rest and she sets out Ardustry Home Entertainment the children's collection. Retained to vindicate the dead boy, Shapiro, Deanna (video) with no change. murdered forty years before. J

As Michael and Robert, a gay couple in New York, prepare Challenged at the Multnomah for Robert's departure for a two- County Library in1995. Reason: year work assignment in concern that material about Africa, Michael must face homosexuality is available to Robert's true motives for young people & is shelved with leaving while dealing with their family films. Recommended circle of eccentric friends, Sherwood, Bill; removal or separate shelving. including Nick, who is living director Parting Glances, (video). Retained with no change. with AIDS. A

A television series about Jackie Challenged in a public library in Peyton a sharp-tongued and 2012 by an individual. Reason: quick-witted nurse who is insensitivity, sexually explicit, trying to survive the chaotic Showtime offensive language & drugs. grind of saving lives in a hectic Networks, Inc. Nurse Jackie ; Lionsgate Retained New York City hospital. A

When their father is jailed for embezzlement and their mother suffers a nervous breakdown, four young siblings Challenged at the Grants Pass try to cope with the changes in middle school libraries in 1982. their lives and the new Reason: profanity, violence and responsibilities thrust upon Shreve, Susan Masquerade, Knopf. sexual innuendos. Removed. them. YA

A collection of twenty-five nursery rhymes, rewritten to feature vampires, ghouls, Challenged from the Multnomah mummies, the Loch Ness Monster Goose, Voyager County Library in 2002. Reason: monster, and other fearsome Sierra, Judy Books. violence. Retained. creatures.. E

A veteran male prostitute, John, befriends the new guy who looks to John for advice Challenged at the Multnomah and friendship in this gritty Silver, Scott; County Library in 2001. Reason: look at the world of male Director Johns, (video). homosexual content. Retained. prostitutes. A Challenged at the Multnomah The ABCs of gay male Silverstein, New Joy of Gay Sex, County Library in 1993. Reason: sexuality are presented in an Charles Perennial. homosexual content. Retained. encyclopedic format. A

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1994. Reason: illustrations do not inform, but The ABCs of gay male Silverstein, New Joy of Gay Sex, instead excite the reader. sexuality are presented in an Charles Perennial. Retained. encyclopedic format. A

Challenged at the Salem-Keizer Public Schools in 1990. Reason: Some poems may provoke children to act in opposition to A Light in the Attic, family taught behavior & values. Silverstein offers another book Silverstein, Shel HarperCollins. Retained. of poems and drawings. J

Challenged at the Eagle Point School District in 1991. Reason: A Light in the Attic, exposes children to frightening or Humorous poems and Silverstein, Shel HarperCollins. gory material. Retained. drawings. J

Challenged in 2012 in a public A graphic novel consisting of library; Reason: exposed children 11 short stores described as to graphic sexual violence. “skin-crawling” terror. Furry Trap, The; Outcome: Library agreed not to Simmons, Josh Fantagraphics Books display this item in the future A

The first of his three semiautobiographical plays about Challenged at the Dallas High the "Jerome" family, this play School 1996. by parents takes place in Brooklyn, N.Y., concerned about use in an toward the end of the Great Introduction to Theatre class. Depression. Fourteen-year-old Reason unknown. Retained but Eugene Morris Jerome restricted to use by advanced (Simon's alter ego) is the Britghton Beach Memoirs, theater students as supplemental protagonist and narrator of the Simon, Neil Plume. with parent permission play. A Underground comic books erupted in the 1960s as a reaction to ultraconservative and patriotic comics produced by the large corporations that featured characters like Captain America and Superman. Bored with moralistic tales, artists Challenged at the Multnomah produced a new and County Library in 2005. Reason: revolutionary style, freely Comix: The Underground subject is degrading and immoral attacking politicians, the war in Revolution, Thunder's Mouth and a bad influence on young Vietnam, and corporate Skinn, Dez Press. people. Retained. America. A

Beginning with a traditional nuclear family and ending with blank spaces in which the child reader is instructed to "draw a picture of your family," this Challenged at the Multnomah book catalogues multicultural County Library in 1996. Reason: contemporary family units, "subtle way of introducing including those with single homosexuality to preschoolers. parents, lesbian and gay See no purpose in showing gays as parents, mixed-race couples, Who's in a Family?, Tricycle a normal healthy family." grandparents and divorced Skutch, Robert Press . Retained. parents. E

This political novel spans 20 years of recent Czech history, culminating in the Prague Spring and the Russian invasion of 1968. Shortly after the war, Danny Smiricky, is dozing in a rural Bohemian church when a statue of St. Joseph moves on its pedestal, Challenged at the Eugene Public seemingly of its own volition. Library in 1990. Reason: The Catholic clergy call it a description of gonococci infection miracle, but the Communist graphic & distasteful; suggested secret police conduct their own labeling as containing graphic investigation. Alleging that the The Miracle Game, Random sexual descriptions. Retained event was a fraud, they torture Skvorecky, Josef House. without labeling. and murder the attending priest. A Challenged at the Coquille Public Library in 1990. Reason: cruel, sadistic, vicious ugly; children Parchment House, a home for victimized; misdirected view of orphans, holds dark and sinister children's institutions; portrayal of secrets. And, like the other adults as callous & evil; may result orphans in the house, Jonnie is warped view of life, warped Rattle is all alone in the world. values; provoke nightmares & Johnnie eventually instigates a Smith, Cara Parchment House, Four fear, or incite sadistic behavior. rebellion, risking everything to Lockhart Winds Press. Retained. save the children. J

Challenged at the Multnomah A collection of short stories, Black Men/White Men: Afro- County Library in 2000. Reason: personal reminiscences, American Gay Life and pornographic nature of the book. interviews, political articles, Smith, Michael J. Culture, Gay Sunshine Press. Retained. photos, poems and drawings. A

Lifelong platonic friends Zack and Miri look to solve their respective cash-flow problems by making an adult film Challenged in 2012 by an together. As the cameras roll, individual in a public library. however, the duo begin to Reason: sexually explicit, unsuited realize that they may have more Smith, Mike, Zack and Miri Make a Porno; to age. Requested restriction to 18 feelings for each other than writer & director The Weinstein Company years & older. Retained. they previously believed. A

Lifelong platonic friends Zack and Miri look to solve their respective cash-flow problems by making an adult film together. As the cameras roll, Challenged in 2013 by an however, the duo begin to individual in a public library. realize that they may have more Smith, Mike, Zack and Miri Make a Porno; Reason: sexually explicit. feelings for each other than writer & director The Weinstein Company Retained. they previously believed. A

Challenged at the Douglas County Library System in 1993. Reasons: language (Oh, God); requested that book be burned or words The fattest kid in the fifth Smith, Robert blacked out. Retained without grade wants to lose weight -- Kimmell Jelly Belly, Yearling. change. but not badly enough to starve. J Challenged at the Multnomah Produced by Dr. Dre with County Library in 1994. Reasons: assistance from Mr. Suge language, content, tenor & Knight, Doggy Style was the presentation; library making first solo outing by hip-hop Snoop Doggy "pornographic material available rapper Calvin Broadus, a.k.a. Dogg DoggyStyle, (audio). to minors. Retained. Snoop Doggy Dogg.

Challenged at the Nyssa Middle Seventeen-year-old Rosemary School in 1991. Reason: rape, thought she could live with objectionable language, anorexia, but nearly destroys Snyder, Anne Goodbye, Paper Doll, Signet. adulterous actions. Retained. herself YA

Jessica brings home a stray cat, only to discover that the cat, Worm, is making her do Challenged at the Kennedy High terrible things. Jessica is sure School in Mount Angel in 1988. that Worm has cast a spell on Snyder, Zilpha Reason: witchcraft theme and her and must discover how to Keatley Witches of Worm, Anthenum. scary illustrations. Retained. escape. J

Two challenges at the La Pine Elementary School in 1993. Reasons: occult; teaches Egyptian Two girls get involved in an culture & religious beliefs; elaborate "Egypt game," a Snyder, Zilpha encourages dangerous & illegal fantasy game that soon leads to Keatley The Egypt Game, Yearling. activities. Retained. strange happenings. J

Challenged in a public library in Reluctant to admit that he August 2011 by a parent. Reason: suffers from claustrophobia and mention of going to a store to steal anxious not to alienate his porno movies unsuitable for age friends, Rudy tries to find a Requested moving to YA section. way to distract them from Snyder, Zilpha Removed because of low pursuing their plan of exploring Keatley Fool's Gold, Delacorte Press circulation an abandoned gold mine. J

Challenged at the Springfield Public Library in 1990. Reasons: Encyclopedia Brown: The fighting is made to look comic; This lively mystery follows Boy Detective in the Case of scene where boy guesses the color Brown as he sets off to find the the Missing Time Capsule of a girl's underwear offensive & town's stolen time capsule in (Video) Media Home ignores a person's right to privacy. time for its 100th birthday Sobol, Donald Entertainment. Retained. party. J Jack doesn’t like being called Little Bunny, and he’s tired of Challenged at the Douglas County the being the smallest rabbit Library in Roseburg in 1989. around. Jack tries to change Solotareff, Don't Call Me Little Bunny, Reasons: the character gets away his diminutive reputation and Gregoire Farrar Straus and Giroux. with bad behavior. Retained. winds up in jail for his efforts. E

Challenged at Multnomah County Library in 1995. Reasons: hero Jack doesn’t like being called using weapons, hiding out from Little Bunny, and he’s tired of authorities, and escaping prison; the being the smallest rabbit objection to violence and failure around. Jack tries to change Solotareff, Don't Call Me Little Bunny , of hero to take responsibility for his diminutive reputation and Gregoire Farrar Straus and Giroux. actions. Retained. winds up in jail for his efforts. E

Challenged again at Multnomah Jack doesn’t like being called County Library in 1999. Reason: Little Bunny, and he’s tired of violence and breaking the law in the being the smallest rabbit the book, requested removal from around. Jack tries to change Solotareff, Don't Call Me Little Bunny , children's area or warning. his diminutive reputation and Gregoire Farrar Straus and Giroux. Retained with no change. winds up in jail for his efforts. E

The book discusses the ethical Challenged at the Multnomah aspects of such sexual County Library in 1998. Reason: questions as masturbation, information in the book pregnancy, premarital sex and Sex: It's Worth Waiting For, discriminates against gay youth. homosexuality from a Christian Speck, Greg Moody Publishers. Retained. perspective. YA

An article by the Review’s historical editor in anticipation of Halloween: “St. Johns and North Portland have more than their share of specter type Challenged in a public library in legends and myths. From tales "Grave History and Telling 2011 by an individual. Reason: of deaths and unsolved Walks in North Portland", St. concern that readers will believe murders, to Buddhist Johns Review, vol. 108, No. the community is racist. Request underpinnings, our area is 21 Oct. 14, 2011 removal of the newspaper issue awash in fabled stories of http://www.holycrosspdx.org/s and that future issues be reviewed peculiar and sometimes creepy chool/pdfs/edit_21%20Oct%20 carefully prior to making them hauntings that have become Speirs, Jim 14%202011.pdf available. part of the peninsula fabric.” A Spiegelman's story about the Holocaust in comic form Challenged at the Multnomah revolves around his survivor Maus I: a Survivor's Tale County Library in 2005. Reason father's experiences and won a Spiegelman, Art Pantheon. unknown. Retained. 1992 Pulitzer Prize. A

A memoir of Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and history. Cartoon format portrays Jews as mice, Nazis as cats. Using a unique comic-strip-as-graphic- art format, the story of Vladek Maus II: A Survivor's Tale Challenged at the Multnomah Spiegelman's passage through and Here My Troubles County Library in 2005. Reason the Nazi Holocaust is told in his Spiegelman, Art began., Pantheon unknown. Retained. own words. A

Challenged at the Douglas County An anthology of some of the Library in Roseburg in 1992. best comic artists from Spiegelman, Art Reason: pornography. Requested America and Europe. Formerly and Francoise removal or restriction from an oversized magazine, now Mouly Raw; Viking Penguin children. Retained. published as a paperback. A

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1995. Reason: book scares children by conveying that "death is some horrible scary Spier examines the amazing Spier, Peter People, Doubleday. thing..." Retained. variety of human life on Earth. E

Challenged at the Corvallis-Benton Spin is a music magazine that County Library in 2003. Reason: reports on "all the music that Spin Magazine Spin, (periodical). graphic sexual content. Retained. rocks." YA

Challenged at the La Grande Jason and Richie navigate Middle School Library in 1988. seventh grade, dodging zits, Reasons: profanity, sexual mothers, younger siblings and Space Station, Seventh Grade, obscenity, immoral values everything else thrown their Spinelli, Jerry Dell; Little. throughout the book. Retained way. YA Sports Illustrated is the largest weekly American sports magazine. Its swimsuit issue, Challenged at the Corvallis-Benton which has been published County Library in 2006. Reason: since 1964, is now an annual Sports children may see topless women; publishing event that Illustrated Sports Illustrated (Swimsuit requested reclassification. generates its own television magazine Edition), (periodical). Retained in magazine collection. shows, videos and calendars. A

Challenged at the Oregon City Spy magazine was a satirical Public Library in 1995. Reason: monthly founded in 1986. female nudity in the August 1995 After one folding and rebirth, it Spy magazine Spy, (periodical). issue. Retained. ceased publication in 1998. A

Created by a group of young women who hung out at the St Stephen's Community Youth Challenged by a parent in Taft 7 - Arcade Drop-In in Toronto 12 high school library in 2013. Canada. Intended to encourage St. Stevens Little Black Book for Girlz: a Reason: Too graphic for a 7th young women to learn more Community Book on Healthy Sexuality ; grader; Unresolved. Remains in 3 about their bodies, their House Annick Press other district high School libraries relationships and their lives. YA

Challenged at the Philomath Discusses the use of magic Middle School Library in 1984. boards and automatic writing Stadtmauer, Visions of the Future: Magic Reason: "badly written." and speaking to receive Saul Boards, Raintree. Removed. communications from spirits J

Challenged at the Dallas School District in 1991. Reason: the book entices impressionable or Discusses the use of magic emotionally disturbed children boards and automatic writing Stadtmauer, Visions of the Future: Magic into becoming involved in and speaking to receive Saul Boards Raintree. witchcraft or the occult. Retained. communications from spirits J In 1809 an alien creature alights on Earth and burrows into the ground for a long hibernation, preparatory to a Challenged at the Multnomah campaign of subjugation and County Library in 1994. Reasons: murder. But in the next few sexually explicit; preys on "blood decades a barn is erected over lust deviancy". Requested separate the spot, presenting a problem Down On the Farm, St. shelving of horror stories. to the alien when it awakens in Stchur, John Martin's. Retained. the 1980s. A Life is no fairy tale for teenager Grace Adams. The quiet and dowdy daughter of Watseka's favorite son, lawyer John Adams, and his lovely, cancer- Challenged at the Multnomah stricken wife Ellen, Grace has County Library in 1997. Reason an ugly little secret that she's Steel, Danielle Malice, Delacorte Press. unknown. Retained. kept for four years. A

Use in 3rd grade reading at the Fairfield Elementary School in Eugene challenged in 1994 by parents. Reasons: violence & The adventures of a foppish Abel's Island, Collin mention of conjugal love between mouse as he comes head-to- Steig, William Publishers. mice. Retained. head with nature. J

Four stories by William Steig: Challenged at the Multnomah Sylvester and the Magic William Steig Video Library, County Library in 1999. Reason: Pebble/Amazing Bone/Doctor Steig, William (video); Weston Woods Studio scary and violent scenes. Retained. De Soto/Brave Irene E

Challenged at Multnomah County Library in 1991. Reason: thesis of the book that childhood phobias Uses separate text for adult and occur in very young children child to explain that children's because they are sexually phobias are related to their Stein, Sara attracted to their parent of the sexual feeling towards their Bonnett About Phobias, Walker. opposite sex. Retained. parents. J

Challenged at the Salem Public Library in 1996. Reason: obscenity Stern's memoir focuses more and pornographic photos. on his professional family than Stern, Howard Miss America, HarperCollins. Retained. on his biological family. A

Challenged at the Dickie Prairie Elementary School in Molalla in 1992. Reason: graphic A collection of some of the photographs from a number of more frightening moments in Look of Horror: Scary horror films. Restricted from movie history – and the faces Sternfield, Moments from Scary Movies, general circulation. Students in that make those moments Jonathan Courage Books. grades 5 to 8 must request access. memorable. J

An 11-year-old boy on a New Challenged at the Newberg Public England island tries to shield Library in 1998. Reason: profanity his alcoholic father from the Stevenson, The Bones in the Cliff , and inappropriate subject matter anticipated arrival of a James Greenwillow. for children. Retained dangerous pursuer. E Sold into shipboard slavery by Challenged at the Multnomah his wicked uncle, the newly County Library in 1995. Reason: orphaned David Balfour turns violence. Requested removal his misfortune into adventure in from children's collection and this Disney adaptation of the Stevenson, placement in adult collection. classic Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Kidnapped, (video). Retained without change novel. E Stone identifies the reasons Jewish culture and Jewish people have succeeded--thrived Challenged in a public library in even--for more than four April 2010. Reason: promotes thousand years under both Breaking the Jewish Code; prejudice and stereotyping. good and unthinkable Stone, Perry F. Charisma House Retained circumstances. A NF

Challenged at the Douglas County Library in 1998. Reason: pictures of a sexual nature and that the A collection of writings related Stovall, Linny, Kid's Stuff (Left Bank #6) Blue title would attract children. to children and families by ed. Heron Retained. Northwest authors. A

A runaway dog saves a little boy’s life, beginning a friendship that crosses the Challenged at the Multnomah nation. Dogcatchers, County Library in 2001. Reason: kidnappers, hospitals and even violent and abusive subject prison can’t keep the two best Strain, Jim Bingo , (children's video). matter. Retained. friends apart! E

Strasser, an award-winning Challenged by staff member at the author, tells the story of a Crook County Middle School teenage boy from the suburbs Library in Prineville in 1989. who, as he grows distant from Reasons: explicit language. his parents, becomes involved Petition circulated in community. with drugs, eventually Strasser, Todd Angel Dust Blues, Delta. Outcome unknown. becoming a dealer. YA

Challenged at the Eugene Public The five-year analysis of a Library in 1991. Reason: Concern schizophrenic young woman raised by member of the National that describes the struggle to Alliance for the Mentally Ill that address buried fears, hates and Severed Soul: A the book asserts that sexual desires that caused the Strean, Herbert Psychoanalyst's Heroic Battle schizophrenia is caused by patient to escape reality into and Lucy to Heal the Mind of a environmental rather than paranoid obsessions and Freeman Schizophrenic, St. Martin's. biological factors. Retained. fantasies. A The story of Night Bear and his people, the Plains Indians, tells Challenged at the Creswell High of the land and life they hold School in 1984. Reason: sacred, and their struggle to Strom, references to masturbation, rape maintain their ways in a Hyemeyohsts Seven Arrows, Harper. and incest. Retained . changing world. A

The article criticized the school board for not renewing the lacrosse coach's contract. The coach's wife had been put on leave for allegations of Administrators removed an op-ed inappropriate sexual conduct piece in April 2013. Reason: it with a student. She was under would cause a disruption & investigation but not yet Op-ed in "The Arrow contained inaccuracies. Outcome: charged. The coach's contract ( Sherwood High School issue republished without this was not renewed after refusing Student Press student newspaper) article. to resign. YA

All of the photographs document the human figure (both male and female) in many of its ages. Sturges photographs mainly nudes and Challenged at the Multnomah is probably best known for the County Library in 2000. Reason: controversy surrounding his Radiant Identities: concern that it is child nude photographs of young Sturges, Jock Photographs, Aperture. pornography. Retained. girls. A

Challenged in a public library in Through rhyming text, a Mom and the Polka-dot Boo- January 2010. Reason: A picture mother explains to her child Sutherland, boo: A Gentle Story of a half-naked woman drawn by a that she has breast cancer, Eileen and Explaining Breast Cancer to child no appropriate in the which might mean such things Maggie a Young Child; American children's collection. Retained in as a loss of energy and hair but Sutherland Cancer Society the children's collection. never a loss of love. E

Four high school boys are lost for 24 hours in an underground cave. As they struggle to survive and escape, with only Challenged at the Multnomah each other to rely on, the four County Library in 1999. Reason: boys find themselves dropping inappropriate language. Request it their macho facades and Sweeney, Joyce Free Fall, Laurel Leaf. be labeled adult. Retained. sharing their darkest secrets. A Challenged at the Hillsboro Public Library in 1994. Reasons: lyrics that are explicit, obscene, The title song is a No. 1 hit degrading to women descriptions single by the Miami bass group of sex acts. Requested that it be Tag Team. It has been Whoomp! (There It Is)–CD5, replaced by non-offensive rap commonly used at sporting Tag Team Bellmark (audio CD). music. Removed. events, particularly basketball. A

Translation of a bestselling Japanese thriller in which a class of junior high school students is taken to a deserted island where, as part of a ruthless authoritarian program, Challenged in 2008 by the parent they are provided arms and of a public library patron. Reason: forced to kill one another until sexual content and values. Patron only one survivor is left recommended the book be standing. Described by some as Takami, reclassified and not circulated to a Lord of the Flies for the 21st Koushan Battle Royale, VIZ minors. Retained without change. century A

Challenged at the Vale Elementary School in 1993. Reason: 2 articles in 10/93 implied girls must depend of male acceptance for self-worth. Restricted - no access to students Teen magazine covers teen below 5th grade; 5 - 6th parental idol gossip, movies, music and Teen magazine Teen, (periodical) permission; unrestricted 7th & 8th. fashion. YA Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 2001. Reason: Teen People features celebrity Teen People vulgarity and sexual content. and human interest stories magazine Teen People, (periodical). Retained. directed at teenagers. YA Challenged by a parent in 2008 at an elementary school. Reason: A beautiful young mermaid Walt Disney Presents the Religious viewpoint, falls in love with a handsome Teitelbaum, Little Mermaid, A Big Golden occult/Satanism. Outcome prince and sacrifices a great Michael Book, Western Publishing unknown. deal in hopes of marrying him. J

Wicca 2000 offers hundreds of Challenged at the Multnomah ready-made prayers, County Library in 2001. Reason: meditations, divination material containing rituals and methods, charms, spells, Wicca 2000: Invocations, spells was checked out by a rituals and invocations that can Prayers, and Rituals for the juvenile who was extremely be used or adapted for use Telesco, Patricia Magickal Millennium, Citadel. influenced by it. Retained. now or in the future. A Challenged at the Corvallis-Benton County Library in 2004. Reason: A manga comic series. The title Concern about shelving proximity refers to three Adolfs - two to cartoon books like Garfield German boys growing up in Adolph Graphic Novel Series; Reclassified. - new graphic novel Japan and Adolf Hitler, who is Tezuka, Osamu Cadence Books section established. a minor character. A

Shockwaves rock a 1960s small town when the grisly shotgun murder of two leading citizens Challenged at the Albany Public sets the town's deputy sheriff Library in 2005. Reason: against the sheriff and other Thayer, Steve Wheat Field, Onyx (audio). disturbing content. Retained. politically powerful residents. A

Challenged at Multnomah County Library in 2002. Reason: bias against "North Slope pipeline" This novel follows a young Thomas, Far Distant Place, Clipper Request for warning on cover. native Alaskan woman's dream Danielle Audio. Retained without warning. of running the Iditarod. A

Children's video that explains the physical habits and habitats of dogs and touches on their Dog, (Eyewitness Video Challenged at the Multnomah evolution as well as the roles Series) Dorling Kindersley County Library in 2000. Reason: they've played in mythology, Thomas, Paul Vision. scariness of video. Retained. legend, superstition and the arts. E

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 2000. Reason: When a 17-year-old from language and explicit sex; Texas lands a job as news requested listener age reporter on a cable TV show, recommendation be changed. he gets a taste of Hollywood- Thomas, Rob Satellite Down, (audiotape). Retained. style celebrity. YA

This is the story of a female Challenged at the Multnomah android built by an ambitious County Library in 1994. Reasons: male scientist who rejects her nudity & sexual situations not and leaves her to fend for Thompson, Amy Virtual Girl, Ace Books. suitable for youth. Retained. herself in the real world. YA

A guide written by a female Challenged at the Multnomah physician and single mother County Library in 1991. Reason: deals with topics of relevance Thompson, Single Solutions: An Essential technical error in the book's to single career women: Charlotte E.; Guide for the Career Woman, information. Retained pending finances, child-rearing, M.D. Branden Books. release of a new edition. traveling, etc. A Thrasher is a monthly skateboarding magazine that publishes articles (not limited to the skateboarding subject), Challenged at the Douglas County skateboard photography, Library System in 1992. Reason: interviews with professional language & attitudes; belief that is skateboarders, interviews with more about Neo-Nazism than and reviews of musical groups, Thrasher skateboarding. Replaced with skate park reviews and magazine Thrasher, (periodical). another skateboarding magazine. miscellaneous oddities. A

Challenged in a public library in Full-color directory of the 2012 by an individual. Reason: luxury hotels in the Charming Charming Hotels & Resorts of marketing material for one Hotels of Italy chain, including Italy & Beyond. International company rather than an objective high quality Blue Guides Tither, Julie Hotel Network trip planning guide. Retained content and maps. A

Challenged at the Tigard Public Library in 1990. Reasons: sexually explicit lyrics in 3 songs; promotes Loc'ed After Dark, Rhino sexual contact before marriage. This CD became the second rap Tone Lōc Records (Audio) Retained. album to top the pop charts. A

After young Marty Peterson rescued Shiloh from his abusive owner, Judd Travers, he thought his troubles were Challenged at the Multnomah over. But when Judd starts County Library in 2003. Reason: threatening to take "his" dog Tung, Sandy; Shiloh 2, (video), Warner portrayal of a character's back, Marty is afraid of losing Director Home Video inappropriate behavior. Retained. the best friend he's ever had. E

Rusty Sabich, family man and the number-two prosecutor of Kindle County, is handed an explosive case – the brutal murder of a woman who happens to be his former lover. A shocking turn of events suddenly transforms him from the accuser into the accused Challenged at the Salem Public and plunges him into a Library in 1991. Reason: explicit nightmare world where Presumed Innocent, Farrar sexual content. Suggested rating nothing seems real and no one Turow, Scott Straus and Giroux. system. Retained without rating. can be presumed innocent. A Challenged in the Portland Public Schools in 2002 by an African Twain tells the story of Huck, a The Adventures of American student. Reason: young homeless boy, and his Huckleberry Finn, multiple offended by an ethnic slur used in trip down the Mississippi River Twain, Mark publishers. the 1885 novel. Retained with an escaped slave, Jim. J

Challenged at the Cascades A nasty ogre who eats only Elementary School in Lebanon in children is suddenly converted Zeralda's Ogre, Farrar Straus 1989. Reason: frightening when he taste’s young Ungerer, Tomi and Giroux. illustrations. Removed. Zeralda’s wonderful dishes. J

The mysterious beast is the Challenged at the Salem-Keizer toast of France, until its true School District in 1997. Reason: identity is revealed in the Beast of Monsieur Racine, concern about illustrations. funniest of all possible Ungerer, Tomi Farrar Straus and Giroux. Retained. practical jokes. E

Based on the book by Raymond Briggs, Santa Claus takes a vacation in France, Challenged at a public library in Scotland and Las Vegas before Father Christmas, Sony 2006. Reason: alcohol use and returning to a stack of mail at Unwin, Dave Pictures (video). offensive language. Retained the North Pole. J

A collection of five original fairy tales: The Frog Prince, The Eagle Rider, The Dragon Sense, The Ogre's Boots and The Duke Who Outlawed Jelly Challenged at the Hillsboro Public The Duke Who Outlawed Jelly Valentine, Beans: And Other Stories, Library in 1993. Reason: promotes Beans. Includes gay and Johnny Alyson Books homosexual lifestyles. Retained. lesbian characters. J

Alan Dixon (Bubba) has been bullied Nolan (Nerd) for five years. So when Mr. Green asks their class to become reporters, Nolan decides he’ll write an exposé—on Bubba. He creates a secret identity for himself and creates Shredderman.com as a place where truth and justice Shredderman: Secret Challenged in a public library in prevail—and bullies get what’s Van Draanen, Indentity; Life Oak Media 2013. Reason: offensive language. coming to them. The first of a Wendelin (audio book) Retained. series J A historical novel based on 10 year old Mary Ellen Todd's Challenged in a religious high 2,000-mile trek from Arkansas Van Leeuwen, school in 2009. Reason: Use of the to Oregon on the Oregon Trail Jean Bound for Oregon, Puffin n-word with her family in the 1850s. J

When Santa was a Shaman: Van The Ancient Origins of Santa Challenged by a parent at a public Renterghem, Claus and the Christmas library in 2006. Reason: sexually Illustrated history of Santa Tony Tree, Llewellyn Publications explicit content. Retained Claus and the Christmas Tree. A

Challenged at the Salem Public Library 1992. Reason: pornographic language. Vanhee describes his work as Withdrawn because of poor "[s]ex and violence and rock 'n' condition & missing pages. roll, that's what's in my books. Vanhee, Gregory Shooter, Avon Books. Otherwise would have retained. I raise hell in my books A

Set in 1970s Holland, this Challenged in a public library in movie tells the story of three Verhoeven, 2011. Reason: description does not young working-class men with Paul & Gerard Spetters; MGM Home inform potential viewers of a passion for motorcycle racing Soetem Entertainment sexually explicit content. Retained and for the same young woman. A

A Christian film. Amanda's boss is involved with the mob, and she finds a stash of money and a list of rigged winners for an upcoming horse race. She Challenged in 2007 at a public and her boyfriend decide to Road to Redemption , 20th library. Reason: should be take a chance and 'borrow' the Vernon, Robert; Century Fox Home reclassified from comedy to money. Her plan goes awry Director Entertainment, (video) religion. Retained as is. and the mob goes after them. A

A monthly magazine, launched in 1993. The publication predominantly features R&B Challenged at the Corvallis-Benton and hip-hop music artists, County Library 2004. Reason: a actors and other entertainers. suggestive cover and article about The magazine's target the connection between rap and audience is predominantly the pornography industry. young, urban followers of hip- Vibe magazine Vibe, (periodical). Retained. hop culture. YA A monthly magazine, launched in 1993. The publication predominantly features R&B and hip-hop music artists, actors and other entertainers. The magazine's target Challenged again at the Corvallis- audience is predominantly Benton County Library in 2004. young, urban followers of hip- Vibe m agazine Vibe, (periodical). Reason unknown Retained. hop culture. YA

Challenged at the Multnomah Vig, Butch and Bricks are Heavy, (sound County Library in 1994. Reasons: L7 recording). explicit lyrics & pictures. Retained. Heavy metal music. A

Enny tells of her relationship Challenged at the Multnomah with Orfe, an unusually County Library in 1994. Reasons: talented musician, and of the contains death and profanity; not love between Orfe and Yuri, a Voigt, Cynthia Orfe, Simon Pulse. suitable for youth. Retained. recovering addict. YA

First book based on a TV series Challenged in 2007 at the that revolves around teenagers Ponderosa Junior High School in from the Upper East Side of Klamath Falls by a parent. Reason: Manhattan. They gossip and Von Ziegesar, unsuitable for junior high school deal with sex and relationship Cecily Gossip Girls, Little Brown students. Removed problems. YA

First book based on a TV series Challenged in 2007 by a parent in that revolves around teenagers a public library. Reason: unsuited from the Upper East Side of to age group; sexually explicit and Manhattan. They gossip and Von Ziegesar, anti-family content; and offensive deal with sex and relationship Cecily Gossip Girls, Little Brown language. Retained problems. YA

Challenged at the Corvallis-Benton County Library in 2006. Reason: the book may lead children to Lyle, the crocodile, thought believe heroic deeds are the only everyone loved him until the Lovable Lyle, Houghton way to overcome bullying. day he received a hate note Waber, Bernard Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books. Retained. from an anonymous despiser. E At the book's center is the narrator's feeling for Mr. Sweet, an elderly friend from her childhood. Diabetic and alcoholic, Mr. Sweet is repeatedly recalled from the edge of death by the narrator and her brother. Their affectionate need for him works like a charm until his 90th birthday, when the narrator hurries back from the Challenged at the Tillamook university but is only just To Hell With Dying, Harcourt County Library in 1992. Reason: recognized before Mr. Sweet is Walker, Alice Brace Jovanovich. use of hell in the title. Retained. really gone. J

Meridian Hill is a young woman at an Atlanta college attempting to find her place in the revolution for racial and social equality. Working in a campaign to register African Challenged at the Union High American voters, she continues School in 1994. Reasons; graphic to work in the Deep South sexual language describing rape & despite a paralyzing illness. other sexual encounters; Meridian's nonviolent methods degrading to teen readers. prove to be an effective Walker, Alice Meridian, multiple publishers. Retained. means of furthering her beliefs. A

Challenged by a local minister & members of Parents for Academic Excellence as an English course reading assignment in the A story told through the letters Junction City high School in 1995. and diary entries of Celie, an Reasons: crude words, promotes abused and uneducated perverse, destructive values, even African American woman. has God condoning lesbian sex . Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Walker, Alice The Color Purple, Harcourt. Retained. and American Book Award. A

Challenged by a parent at the North Bend High School Library in A mixture of scholarly 1998. Reasons: specific sexual and materials discussing feminist religious passages and concerns themes in myth, religion and that the book "is of no benefit to culture. More than 1,300 The Woman's Encyclopedia of anyone." Retained as a reference entries on everything from Walker, Myths and Secrets, book, use restricted to non- magic to reincarnation to Barbara G. HarperOne. required assignments. romance. A Ben and his friend Jake like to play and explore along the river near their homes. Excitement over their discovery of an old buried boat is compounded when they find a treasure map inside it, with an X to mark the spot. As they get close to an island in Quicksand Swamp, Challenged at the Multnomah where they hope the treasure is County Library in 2000. Reason: buried, they realize that the Danger in Quicksand Swamp, scary and too realistic [nature] of island is surrounded by Wallace, Bill Aladdin. book. Retained. alligators. E

Challenged by a parent at a public library in 2007. Reason: violent One in a series of dinosaur images may be upsetting to young picture books depicting the children. The parent suggested a daily life activities - "where parental advisory sticker. Retained they lived, what they ate, how Wallace, Karen I am a Quetzalcoatlus, Hodder as is they fought ". E

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1998. Reason: racist stereotypes of Native Porky Pig & Company, Americans Classic animated children's Warner Brothers (video). MGM/UA. Retained. video. E

This is the movie that made John Waters famous. The plot Challenged at the Multnomah revolves around two vile Waters, John, County Library in May 2004. families laying claim to the title Director Pink Flamingos, (video). Reason: sexual content. Retained. "The Filthiest People Alive." A

This is the movie that made John Waters famous. The plot Challenged at the Multnomah revolves around two vile Waters, John, Pink Flamingos, (video). New County Library in February 2004. families laying claim to the title Director Line Home Entertainment Reason: sexual content. Retained. "The Filthiest People Alive." A

Challenged at the Salem-Keizer School District in 1997. Reason: sections on the occult and Watson, Jane witchcraft do not promote a A collection of unexplained Werner, Sol positive message for students. and little explored phenomena Chaneles and Golden Book of the Restricted to middle school & that challenge the mind and Alan Lee Mysterious, Golden Press. above. science. E After moving to a trailer park Challenged by a parent in 2008 at with his mother eleven-year-old a public library. Reason: Jamie Reardon struggles to recommendation that it be cope with a deeply buried labeled in a way that parents will secret. The author alludes to Jumping the Scratch, Laura know it is about child abuse. sexual abuse only in broad Weeks, Sara Geringer Retained with no change. terms with no graphic detail. J

Being painfully timid and shy Challenged at the Multnomah does not keep a young mouse County Library in 1993. Reason: from rescuing his babysitter in mother in the book was very an emergency situation, negative towards her shy son; although after becoming a Wells, Rosemary Shy Charles, Dial. lowered self-esteem. Retained. hero he still says zero J

Westheimer discusses the physical changes that take place during adolescence. She Dr. Ruth Talks to Kids: Where Challenged at the Junction City moves on to emotions and Westheimer, You Came From, How Your Public Library in 2000. Reason: touches on such topics as peer Ruth K. (Ruth Body Changes, and What Sex overly permissive stance on pressure and sharing the Karola) Is All About, Aladdin. sexuality. Retained. telephone with parents. J

A traumatized World War II Challenged at the North Bend veteran trapped in a VA High School in 1992. Reason: hospital stays sane through his graphic sex. Asked the district to detailed recollections of raising adopt a rating system for library canaries as a teenager – and Wharton, books similar to that used for through the loyalty of his William Birdy, Vintage. movies. Retained. closest friend. A

One of 17 books challenged at the Deschutes County Library in 1993 by a member of the Oregon Citizens Alliance. Reason: the A collection of seven stories White, Edmond materials exist to promote that examine the various and Adam Mars- Darker Proof: Stories from a homosexuality and moral decay. effects of AIDS on gay men and Jones Crisis, NAL. Retained. their families. A

Thirty-year old Justine longs for a life more fulfilling than the one she leads with her boring husband and the dead- end job she has. But when a passionate young co-worker catches her eye and steals her Challenged in a public library by heart, Justine's good girl White, Mike an individual in 2012. Reason: existence takes a turn for the writer; Miguel Good Girl, The; 20th Century nudity, sexually explicit, anti- worse with unexpected and Arteta, director. Fox Home Entertainment family, suicide. Retained comical results. A Challenged at the Multnomah A raging forest fire traps a County Library in 1990. Reason forest ranger and a young boy White, Robb Fire Storm, Doubleday. unknown. Retained. he suspects is an arsonist. A

A collection of stories for children, first published in Challenged at the Springfield 1888. Best known for The Public Library 1987. Reason: the Happy Prince, a tale of a statue Happy Prince and Other stories were "distressing and who becomes friends with a Wilde, Oscar Stories, Penguin. morbid." Retained. swallow. J

In this picture book, a young Challenged at Multnomah County boy talks about his divorced Library in 1992. Reason: concern father's new “roommate," that the implication of this book, another gay man. One of the about a boy with a gay father, first children’s books with a won't be understood by children, positive portrayal of Willhoite, Daddy's Roommate, Alyson and is questionable material for homosexuality and same-sex Michael Books. them. Retained. parenting. E

In this picture book, a young boy talks about his divorced father's new “roommate," another gay man. One of the Challenged at Multnomah County first children’s books with a Library in 1992. Reason: book positive portrayal of Willhoite, Daddy's Roommate, Alyson presents a picture of misguided homosexuality and same-sex Michael Books. morality & deviate living. Retained. parenting. E

In this picture book, a young boy talks about his divorced father's new “roommate," another gay man. One of the Challenged at Multnomah County first children’s books with a Library in 1992. Reason: promotes positive portrayal of Willhoite, Daddy's Roommate, Alyson a homosexual lifestyle as normal. homosexuality and same-sex Michael Books. Retained. parenting. E

Challenged by 34 individuals at the Tillamook County Library in 1992 during the statewide ballot initiative campaign on Measure 9. In this picture book, a young Reason: it "promotes a dangerous boy talks about his divorced and ungodly lifestyle from which father's new “roommate," children must be protected." another gay man. One of the Subsequently 45 individuals first children’s books with a submitted "compliment forms in positive portrayal of Willhoite, Daddy's Roommate, Alyson supporting the library's ownership homosexuality and same-sex Michael Books. of the book. Retained. parenting. E In this picture book, a young boy talks about his divorced Challenged at Multnomah County father's new “roommate," Library in 1993. Reason: another gay man. One of the homosexual content; should be first children’s books with a located in a separate section & positive portrayal of Willhoite, Daddy's Roommate, Alyson not featured in a special kit of homosexuality and same-sex Michael Books. materials about families. Retained. parenting. E In this picture book, a young boy talks about his divorced father's new “roommate," Challenged at the Hermiston another gay man. One of the Public Library in 1994. Reason: first children’s books with a teaches homosexuality is normal positive portrayal of Willhoite, Daddy's Roommate, Alyson & natural. Reclassified to homosexuality and same-sex Michael Books. parenting. parenting. E

In this picture book, a young boy talks about his divorced father's new “roommate," another gay man. One of the first children’s books with a Challenged at the Lane County positive portrayal of Willhoite, Daddy's Roommate, Alyson Head Start officials in Cottage homosexuality and same-sex Michael Books. Grove in 1994. Removed. parenting. E In this picture book, a young boy talks about his divorced father's new “roommate," another gay man. One of the first children’s books with a Challenged at the Springfield positive portrayal of Willhoite, Daddy's Roommate, Alyson Public Library in 1994. Reason: will homosexuality and same-sex Michael Books. lead children astray. Retained. parenting. E

In this picture book, a young boy talks about his divorced Challenged at Multnomah County father's new “roommate," Library in 1995. Reasons: Concern another gay man. One of the that it included in an early first children’s books with a childhood curriculum kit since the positive portrayal of Willhoite, Daddy's Roommate, Alyson book deals with a homosexual homosexuality and same-sex Michael Books. parent. Retained. parenting. J

Challenged at the Multnomah The sequel to Daddy's County Library 1999. Reason: Roommate. This time Daddy is Concern about a gay wedding, in getting married to his partner, Willhoite, Daddy's Wedding, Alyson the children's section on parenting Frank, and asks his 10-year-old Michael Books. shelf. Retained. son to be the best man. E Challenged a public library in 2006. Reason: "concern that younger children might see drawings of adults kissing that parents are not prepared for, and there may be some confusion in The sequel to Daddy's regard to seeing images of people Roommate. This time Daddy is of the same sex getting married." getting married to his partner, Willhoite, Daddy's Wedding, Alyson Requested reclassification. Frank, and asks his 10-year-old Michael Books. Retained. son to be the best man. E

Sam, an 11-year-old boy, discovers that his grandfather is a magician – and that he Challenged at the Little Butte himself may have certain Intermediate School in Eagle Point talents. An entertaining story in 1989. Reasons: swear words of magic thrust into a “normal” Magic Grandfather, and deals with magic and witches. life, published long before Williams, Jay Macmillan. Outcome unknown. Harry Potter J

Challenged in Salem's Sprague High School American Literature Utah naturalist Williams class in 1995 by a parent. Request ponders the loss of her mother to remove from supplemental to cancer and the disastrous reading list. Reason: flooding of a bird refuge in a misrepresented the Church of moving account of the Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints' interrelations between Williams, Terry religion and culture. Retain, but personal tragedy and natural Tempest Refuge, Vintage not required reading. history. Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 1998. Reason: use of aliens to present weather A spoof on the Earth's weather Earth Weather, as Explained information, inappropriate for as explained by Professor by Professor Xargle, Dutton children under 8 years old. Xargle to his extraterrestrial Willis, Jeanne Juvenile. Retained. class. E

Challenged at the Albany Public Library in 1986. Reason: the book A history of witchcraft and the "is satanic in nature, thereby occult from ancient times to having tremendous drawing modern day. Wilson discusses power to the curious and topics including witch trials, Wilson, Colin Witches, Crescent. unsuspecting." Outcome unknown. spells and werewolves. A Two decades into the future humans are battling for their very survival when a powerful AI computer goes rogue and all the machines on earth rebel against their human controllers. A 2012 winner of the Young Adult Library Services Challenged in a public library in (YALSA) Alex Award for Robopocalypse: A Novel ; 2012 by a parent. Reason offensive adult works with special appeal Wilson, Daniel H.Doubleday language. Retained to teen readers. A

Challenged at the Salem Public Library in 1989. Reasons: language that profanes God's name; A collection of comic strip cartoon where child prays that his stories from the '70s about a Nuts, Richard Marek parents will be killed so they won't pre-teen "Kid," an only child Wilson, Gahan Publishers. see his report card. Retained. growing up in a big city. YA Challenged in a public library in 2011. A patron initiated the challenge, library staff also expressed concern. Reason: sexual A collection of stories from the Wilson, Sean and sexist content. Retained . The ten years history of Ax, a Michael & adult graphic novel section was Japanese alternative comics Mitsuhiro AX: Alternative Manga. Vol. moved to a location closer to adult magazine, translated into Asakawa 1 Top Shelf Productions fiction. English for the first time. A

Challenged at the Multnomah A dramatization of Robert County Library in 1996. Reason: Graves' version of the times of no rating on outside to give the Roman Empire from warning of full nudity of dancing Augustus to Claudius told woman at the very beginning of through the dying Claudius as Wise, Herbert, I, Claudius, (video).Image the movie. Requested rating on he sets down the history of his Director Entertainment material. Retained without rating. family. A

On the anniversary of his sister's murder, Leo, tormented by his mother's insane accusations and his own waking nightmares, kidnaps a wealthy girl intending to kill Challenged at the Crook County her, but instead their long night The Long Night of Leo and Library in 2003. Reason: vulgar together helps them both face Wittlinger, Ellen Bree, Simon Pulse. language. Retained. their futures. YA Wolff represents many children who grow up in dysfunctional families, turning to alcohol and a life of misdemeanors in order to gain attention. He does an excellent job of presenting his hardships through humor and sharp wit. In an attempt to escape the reality that is his life, Wolff created extravagant plans to escape, and though most of his Challenged in 1994 as an attempts were unsuccessful, alternative choice to class reading he succeeded in creating a of Imani All Mine by Connie world in which he fancied This Boy's Life: A Memoir, Porter in the Portland Public himself to be in charge of his Wolff, Tobias Atlantic Monthly Press Schools. Reason: lewd language destiny. A

Challenged at the Multnomah County Library in 2000. Reason: Woodring creates inventive, showing body cutting and often bizarre creatures who bleeding not related to the inhabit otherworldly landscapes Woodring, Jim Frank, Vol. 2, Fantagraphics. storyline. Retained. and dreamlike narratives. A

Challenged at the Salem Public An official publication from Library in 1999. Reason: violence World Wrestling and sexual Entertainment -- originally innuendoes. Request to move it known as WWF (World from Young Adult area. Wrestling Federation) but WWF magazine WWF magazine, (periodical). Reclassified. changed to WWE in May 2002. YA

One of 17 books challenged at the Deschutes County Library in 1993 Growing Up Straight: What by a member of the Oregon A compilation of materials, Every Thoughtful Parent Citizens Alliance. Reason: the published in 1968, aimed at Wyden, Peter Should Know About materials exist to promote helping parents understand and Barbara Homosexuality, New homosexuality and moral decay. homosexuality and recognize Wyden American Library. Retained. “signs” in their children. A

This is a gay male youth- Challenged at the Corvallis-Benton oriented magazine. Its name is County Library in 2002. Reason: a reference to the XY explicit sexual content in a chromosome pair found in XY magazine XY magazine, (periodical). magazine for teens. Retained. males. YA A romantic comedy manga series which details the life of Suekichi, a student who will inherit a fortune when he graduates from college and Challenged at the Multnomah gets married with unexpected Yamamoto, Dance till Tomorrow, VIZ County Library in 2003. Reason: complications from a Naoki Media LLC. sexual material. Retained. mysterious girl, Aya Hibino A

Formerly Young Miss Challenged at the Canyonville magazine, it was published for School (K - 8) in 1993. Reason: not 72 years for teen girls. YM is appropriate for upper elementary now published online only with school library. Restricted; will a subscription link to Teen YM magazine YM magazine, (periodical). attempt to find suitable substitute. Vogue. YA

Two women, convinced their Challenged at the Multnomah bad luck is due to some sort of Crystals: A Fiona Kendrick County Library in 1997.Reason a "curse," decide to fight back Zavala, Ana Mystery, Tor Books. unknown. Retained. by learning to use witchcraft. A

Sarah's an ordinary teenage girl who must take care of her brother Michael when her dad goes to investigate a series of Challenged at the Multnomah mysterious deaths. As mutant County Library in 2003. rats begin to appear all over Reason: graphic contents. Staten Island, attacking people, Reclassified from children's to and heading for the city, Sarah Zindel, Paul Rats, Hyperion. young adult. realizes everyone's in danger. YA

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