MLA Intellectual Freedom Committee

 

Montana Challenged Books

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Reported Materials Challenges in Montana

 

 

 

 

  ***** not a school library book or school curriculum text; title loaned to student from private collection

Title  

Author

Resolution

Year

Alligators in the sewer and 222 other urban legends
Thomas J. Craughwell school--removed from collection per school policy at superintendent's direction "books did not meet curricular expectations" (2005)
American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis public – committee recommended retention (1991)
Are You There God?  It’s Me Margaret Judy Blume school – retained (1985)
Dead Folks Jon A Jackson Big Sky High School (Missoula) retained 2009
Beastly Boys and  Ghastly Girls William Cole school – retained (1991)
The Big Sky 
A. B. Guthrie school – resolution unreported (1992)
Black Magic, Satanism, Voodoo 
Dr. Leo Martello public – discarded because of physical condition; not reordered (1993)
Blind Date
R.L. Stine school–retained (1992)
Blubber 
Judy Blume school – retained (1985)
Bump in the Night  Anne Rockwell  school  – retained (1989)
Bumps in the Night   Harry Allard  school – retained (1994)
Catcher in the Rye   J. D. Salinger                 

 school– resolution unknown; reported by ALA

 

Big Sky High School (Missoula)  retained

(pre1987)

 

(2009)

Catfish
 Edith Hurd  public – retained (1991)
Cavalcade of Witches
 H.Z. Walck  public – resolution unreported (1991)
Contemporary Social Problems
 (textbook)  school (curriculum) – retained (1995)
A Day No Pigs Would Die   Robert Peck  school – resolution unreported 

school – retained

(1988)


(1997)

Deenie
 Judy Blume  school – retained (1985)
The Devil and All His Works *****  Dennis  Wheatley                 school (1993)
Die Softly  Christopher Pike  school – resolution unreported (1995)
Dragon Lance Chronicles

 

Margaret Weis
Tracy Hickman
public – complaint not pursued (1991) 
Elf Quest Book #4  Kay Reynolds  public – retained (1992)

Enormous Crocodile
Roald Dahl  school – complaint not pursued (1992) 
The Exes  Pagan Kennedy  school – resolution unreported (2003)
Faerie Tale Theatre:  Sleeping Beauty (video)  Shelley Duvall  public – retained (1992) 
Family Secrets  Norma Klein  public – retained (1990)
A Fan’s Notes  Frederick Exley  public – complaint not pursued (1989)
Final Exit  Derek Humphry  public – retained (1994)
Fit of Shivers  Joan Aiken  school – resolution unreported (1993)
Fool’s Crow James Welch

school (curriculum) – removed 


school (curriculum) – retained

(1999)


(2000)

For Those I Loved Martin Gray Kohrs Memorial Library - retained 2009
Forever War I  Joe Haldeman  public – retained (1992)

Girls are Girls/Boys are Boys

So What’s the Difference

 

Sol Gordan  public – retained  (1998)
The Giver Lois Lowry  school – retained  (1996)
Golden Compass  Phillip Pullman  school – retained (2000)
Gollanca  Joan Aiken  school – resolution unreported (1993)
Grandpa’s Ghost Stories James Flora 

school – committee recommended removal


school – retained

(1989)  


(1994)

The Guy Book  Mavis Jukes Lockwood Middle School (Billings)--school board voted to retained after complaintant challenged superintendent's decision to retain (2006)
Hammer of Eden  Ken Follette  school – retained (2000)
Harris and Me  Gary Paulsen  school – retained (2000)
Haunted  R.L Stine  school – retained (1992)
Hosie’s Alphabet  Leonard Baskin  public – retained (1988)
King Stork Howard Pyle 

school – retained but flagged as not
suitable for some readers 

 


school- restricted acces

 

(1993)

 


(1996)

Lulu Goes to Witch School  Jane O’Connor school – retained (1992)
Montana Gothic   Dirck Van Sickle  public – retained  (1989)
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark  Alvin Schwartz  school – resolution unreported (1994)
National Wildlife Magazine  National Wildlife
Federation
school – retained and offered to add new title to serial collection to provide balance  (1995)
A Natural History of Unnatural Things Daniel Cohen public – retained and reclassified from youth to adult collection  (1994) 
The Joy of Gay Sex  Charles Silverstein
Felice Picano

public – retained (1993)


Lewis & Clark Library (Helena) - retained (2008)
 
Not in God’s Image  *****  Julia O’Faolain school (1993)
One Teenager in 10  Ann Heron, editor  public – complaint not pursued (1993)
Our Bodies, Ourselves Boston Women’s
Health Book Collective

school – removed, then shelved with restricted borrowing policy


public – retained 

(1978)

 


(1978)

Outside Over There Maurice Sendak school – retained  (1991)
Raw Head, Bloody Bones  Mary Lyons  school – retained  (1992)
Redbook Magazine Hearst Corporation school – subscription not renewed  (1992)
Red Sky at Morning  Richard Bradford school – resolution unknown; reported
by ALA 
(1987)
Red Woolen Blanket Bob Graham public – complaint not pursued  (1992)  
Rolling Stone Magazine Straight Arrow
Publisher

school – removed


 school – removed


school – access restricted

 

 

(1998)

 

(2002)

 

 

Runaways  Jeffrey Artesen school – removed (1995)
Sexy Joyce Carol Oates school - retained (2007)
Shazira Shazam and the Devil  Erica Ducornet school – retained (1990)
Siddhartha  Herman Hesse &
Hilda Rosner, translator
school – resolution unreported  (1992)
Sink or Swim Betty Miles school – resolution unreported  (1993)
Starring Sally J. Freedman As Herself Judy Blume school – retained   (1985)
Staying at Sam’s Jenny Hessel public – complaint not pursued   (1992)
The Story of Stuff video Big Sky High School (curriculum) - removed 2009
Summer Awakening Anita Eires public – retained  (1990)
Superfudge Judy Blume school – retained   (1985)
Then Again Maybe I Won’t Judy Blume school – retained   (1985)
Two by Two Kathryn Hewitt public – complaint not pursed  (1990)
Unfinished Business Maggie Scarf  public – retained (1989) 
Urban Legends
Thomas J. Craughwell school--removed from collection per school policy at superintendent's direction "books did not meet curricular expectations" (2005)
Valentine for Dragon Shirley Rousseau
Murphy
school – relocated, cover removed,flagged “not for all readers” (1993)
The Vanishing Hitchkiker; American Urban Legends
Jan Brunvand school--removed from collection per school policy at superintendent's direction "books did not meet curricular expectations" (2005)
Viking’s Daughter John Andrews public – retained  (1991)  
Visions of the Future:
Magic Numbers and Cards
Stephanie Reiff  school – removed by superintendent  (1989)
We All Fall Down Robert Cormier school – retained   (1995)
What Kids Want to Know About Sex and Growing Up (film)   school – retained (1994)
What’s Happening to Me? (film)   school – removed (1994) 
When Someone You  Know is Gay Susan Cohen public – complaint not pursued   (1993)
Wicked Stepdog Carol Lea  Benjamin school – resolution unreported  (1994)
Winterkill Craig Lesley school – removed from required course reading list, but retained in library  (1993)
Witch Poems Daisy Wallace school – retained (1993)
Witches, Pumpkins  & Grinning Ghosts  Edna Barth school – retained (1991) 
Witch’s Handbook 
 
Malcolm Bird school – resolution unreported  (1989)
Wizard & Glass
Stephen King school – resolution unreported  (1999)
 World War II  Ivor Matanle Warren Elementary School (Helena) - retained  2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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