Materials Challenged in Oregon 1979 - July 2015 Based on published reports from the American Library Association, the Oregon Intellectual Freedom Clearinghouse (OIFC) and other news sources L e v e Author/ 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 As Nasty as They overturned & the album was Wanna Be, Luke Challenged at the Multnomah ruled not to be obscene in 1992 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 an individual. Reason: Secrets of Boys, The promotes sexual activity, smoking, and all other titles by drinking, taking drugs & other this author; Harper high risk behavior for teens. Hailey Abbott writes romance Abbott, Hailey 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 Redmond 1994. Reason: does not A news program on AIDS and ABC News of 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 physician assisted aid in dying 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 propaganda. Frame Faces of Liberty (photo returned & display continued as ACLU of Oregon display) scheduled 1 L e v e Author/ Other Title & Publisher Date, Reason & Outcome Description of Material l 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 Tijuana Bibles: Art explicit, often offensive and Wit in America's Challenged at the Multnomah cartoons, another genre of 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, given to someone in the book. neither works, some creative Adler, David Henry 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 We, Too, Must Love, 2008. Reasons: nudity. Request to prolific author Marijane Feminist Press at the change the cover to conceal the Meaker, expands on her City University of New partial nudity. Retained with no journalistic portraits of lesbian Aldrich, Ann York change. subcultures in and around York A When the New Baby Challenged at the Multnomah Oliver is going to be a big Comes, I'm Moving County Library in 1993. Reason: brother and doesn't like the Out, Charlesbridge child voiced disrespect for mother. idea one bit. For baby through Alexander, Martha 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 Removed from the 9th grade attend an all-white school. of a Part‑Time Indian, English Classes but returned to the National Book Award winner Alexie, Sherman The. Thorndike. library and NY Times Best Seller. YA 2 L e v e Author/ Other Title & Publisher Date, Reason & Outcome Description of Material l Use of this book in Sweet Home 8th grade language arts classes was challenged by 2 parents of students in the class and 3 other people in 2014. Reason: book isn’t appropriate for class because of its use of words not allowed by the student code of conduct and its discussion of sexual matters. It was The story of a boy growing up retained for 8th graders. The on the Spokane Indian school board voted to keep the Reservation who decides to Absolutely True Diary book as long as parents are attend an all-white school. of a Part‑Time Indian, informed of a specific alternative National Book Award winner Alexie, Sherman The. Thorndike. lesson in a timely fashion. and NY Times Best Seller. YA Originally published as a 12 part serial "The Student and Schoolmate" and later as a novel of the adventures of Dick Challenged in a public library in Hunter, a ragged bootblack 2013. Reason: Challenged not who makes the decision to about the content, but concern "grow up 'spectable', and how about children accessing a book he achieves this with help of Ragged Dick OR, written by a known pedophile. friends, honesty, hard work and Street Life in New York Book was located in adult faction study. Alger, Horatio, Jr. with Boot Blacks and retained in that area. J Challenged at the South Prairie Trevor Hog believes a séance Elementary School in Tillamook in will be the perfect cure for his Bumps in the Night, 1989. Reason: a medium and friend Dudley Stork's haunted Allard, Harry 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 Bumps in the Night, Library in 1990. Reason: too scary friend Dudley Stork's haunted Allard, Harry Bantam. for children. Retained. house. E Trevor Hog believes a séance Challenged at the Multnomah will be the perfect cure for his Bumps in the Night, County Library in 1990. Reason friend Dudley Stork's haunted Allard, Harry 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 Bumps in the Night, Reason: instructs children in the friend Dudley Stork's haunted Allard, Harry Bantam. occult. Retained house. E 3 L e v e Author/ Other Title & Publisher Date, Reason & Outcome Description of Material l 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 encourage sexual involvement. to New Orleans helps him face Allen, R.E. Young 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 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 Evermore: The to adult section. Reason: violence, people until she meets Damen, Emortals. St. Martin's concern about dark and graphic another psychic teenager who Alyson, Noel Griffin content. Retained; not moved is hiding even more mysteries. YA An uncompromising look at what the American Family Association believes are the consequences of the Challenged at the Multnomah homosexual lifestyle. It American 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 Challenged at the Multnomah homosexual lifestyle. It American Family County Library in 2005. Reason features former homosexuals Association It's Not Gay, (video). unknown. Retained. telling their own stories. A 4 L e v e Author/ Other Title & Publisher Date, Reason & Outcome Description of Material l 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 children & that the humor is no causing the farmers to try to dig appropriate for every child & the family out. The foxes dig Anderson, Wes & Fantastic Mr. Fox; family. Request to relocate from faster and tunnel under the Noel Baremback 20th Century Fox children's to adult & label "dark farms stealing all the chickens, (screenplay authors) Home Entertainment.