Title |
Author
|
Resolution
|
Year
|
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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) | ||
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian | Sherman Alexie | Billings School District #2 - retained | 2013 | ||
Aghora II: Kundalini | Robert E. Svoboda | Billings Public Library -- retained | 2018 | ||
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) | ||
Daddy's Little Girl | Director: Chris Sun (DVD) | Billings Public Library-- retained | 2018 | ||
A Day No Pigs Would Die | Robert Peck | school – resolution unreported school – retained |
(1988) (1997) |
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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) | ||
Drama | Raina Telgemeier | school library | 2017 | ||
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) | ||
Fifty Shades of Grey (audio version) | E.L. James | Billings Public Library -- retained | 2016 | ||
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
school- restricted access |
(1993)
(1996) |
||
Lulu Goes to Witch School | Jane O’Connor | school – retained | (1992) | ||
The Marbury Lens | Andrew Smith | Bozeman Public Library - retained | 2013 | ||
Meeting Room Policy | Bitterroot Public Library Board | public--upheld library meeting room policy in face of challenge to deny a group from using the meeting room (2017) |
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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) |
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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) | ||
Passenger | Andrew Smith | Bozeman Public Library - retained | 2013 | ||
Punkzilla | Adam Rapp | Park High School Library - retained | 2014 | ||
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 Boys Kissing | David Levithan | public library - retained | 2017 | ||
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 |