WISCONSIN BANNED BOOKS


*Challenged or Banned in 2003-2004*

Walter the Farting Dog by William Kotzwinkle, and Glenn Murray. Frog, Ltd.
Challenged but retained on the library shelves of the West Salem Elementary School despite the book's use of the words "fart" and "farting" 24 times.


Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman. HarperCollins.
Challenged but retained on the reading list for 8th graders at the Evansville High School despite concerns about profanity, sexual imagery and violence.

*Challenged or Banned before 2003*

Age of Innocence by David Hamilton. In 1998.
Alfred Hitchcock's Witches Brew by Alfred Hitchcock. In 1992.
The Amboy Dukes by Irving Shulman. In 1949 (?)
American Foreign Policy, Vol. II by Thomas Paterson. In 1984.
The American Pageant: A History of the Republic by Thomas Bailey and David M. Kennedy. In 1984.
Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry. In 1992.
Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor. In 1969.
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume. In 1982.



Baby Be-Bop by Francesca Lia Block. In 1998.
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin. In 1966.
Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy. In 1990.
Blubber by Judy Blume. In 1986.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown. In 1974.


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Capital by Karl Marx. In 1953.
Captain Underpants and the Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies from Outer Space (and the Subsequent Assault of Equally Evil Lunchroom Zombie Nerds) by Dav Pilkey. In 2000.
Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. In 1994.
Changing Bodies, Changing Lives by Ruth Bell, et al. In 1981, 1982 & 1992.
Chinese Handcuffs by Chris Crutcher. In 1998.
Cujo by Stephen King. In 1987.



Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite. In 1993.
The Dark Half by Stephen King. In 1998.
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck. In 1994.
The Devil in the Drain by Daniel Pinkwater. In 1987.
The Doors of Perception by Aldoux Huxley. In 1980.
The Drowning of Stephan Jones by Bette Greene. In 1998 & 1999.



Early Disorders by Rebecca Josephs. In 1988.
Families by Jeannette Eyerly. In 1982.
Forever by Judy Blume. In 1983 & 1993.
Girls and Sex by Wardell B. Pomeroy. In 1990.
Guinness Book of World Records In 2002.



Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam. In 1993.
A Handbook for Conscientious Objectors by Robert A. Seeley. In 1982.
Hard Feelings by Don Bredes. In 1981.
The Iceman by Chris Lynch. In 1999.
In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action by Ellen Alderman. In 1998.
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton. In 1986.
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak. In 1985.
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. In 1975.



Jack by A. M. Homes. In 1998.
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl. In 1991.
Johnny Got His Gun by David Trumbo. In 1977 & 1982.
Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas: Further, Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison. In 2002.
The Last Mission by Harry Mazer. In 1986.
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein. In 1985 & 1986.
Living Today by Irene Oppenheim. In 1984.


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The Magician by Sol Stein. In 1981.
Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown. In 1974.
Married and Single Life by Audrey Palm Riker and Holly Brisbane. In 1984.
My House by Nikki Giovanni. In 1975.
Night Shift by Stephen King. In 1988.
Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep by Jack Prelutsky. In 1993.
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. In 1998 & 1999.
One Hundred Questions and Answers About AIDS by Michael Thomas Ford. In 1993.
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Book Collective. In 1982.



Peter by Kate Walker. In 1999.
Portrait of America, Vol. II by Stephen Oates. In 1984.
Radiant Identities by Jock Sturges. In 1998.
Sex by Madonna. In 1993.
Sir Gawin and the Loathy Lady by Selina Hastings. In 1992.
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. In 1984.
Snow Bound by Harry Mazer. In 1987.
Stars, Spells, Secrets and Sorcery by Barbara Haislip. In 1993.



That Was Then, This is Now by S. E. Hinton. In 1986.
Trig by Robert Newton Peck. In 1985.
Two Teenagers in Twenty by Ann Heron. In 1998 & 1999.
The Unicorn Who Had No Horn by Margaret Holland and Craig McKee. In 1991.
Vision Quest by Terry Quest. In 1984, 1985 & 1986.



A Way of Love, a Way of Life: A Young Person's Introduction to What It Means to be Gay by Frances Hanckel and John Cunningham. In 1998.
Wayside School is Falling Down by Louis Sachar. In 1995.
What to Do if You or Someone You Know is Under 18 and Pregnant by Arlene K. Richards and Irene Willis. In 1991.
What's Happening to My Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Mardaras and Dane Saavedra. In 1994.
When Someone You Know is Gay by Susan Cohen and Daniel Cohen. In 1998 & 1999.
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein. In 1986.
Whoopie Goldberg: Her Journey from Poverty to Mega-Stardom by James Robert Parish. In 2000.
The Witches by Roald Dahl. In 1993.
Woman's Body: An Owner's Manual by Diagram Group. In 1987.
Words of Conscience: Religious Statements of Conscientious Objectors by Shawn Perry, ed. In 1982.
Working by Studs Terkel. In 1978.

Taken from BANNED BOOKS, 2004 RESOURCE GUIDE by Robert Doyle. ALA, c2004