Title
|
Author
|
Resolution
|
Year
|
| Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian |
Sherman Alexie |
Geraldine School District - parent challenged as an inappropriate book for the classroom (sex and language) |
(2012) |
| Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian |
Sherman Alexie |
Helena High School - retained |
(2011) |
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) |
| Into the World of the Dead |
Michael Boughn |
Superintendent and principal decided to remove it from the library as not appropriate for the Clinton elementary school
|
(2011) |
| King Stork |
Howard Pyle |
school – retained but flagged as not
suitable for some readers
school- restricted access
|
(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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