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) |
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)
|
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 suitable for some readers
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)
|
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) |
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 |
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