LibGuides: Banned Books Week: Classic Banned Books @ WCCC Library

Banned/Challenged Books

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank; B. M. Mooyaart (Translator); Eleanor Roosevelt (Introduction by)
Call Number: PS 3513 O53515 D5 1956
ISBN: 9780553296983
Publication Date: 1993-06-01
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Harold Bloom (Editor)
Call Number: PS 3511 .I9 G83 2004
ISBN: 9780791075777
Publication Date: 2003-09-01
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Call Number: PS 3537 .A426 C3 1951
ISBN: 9780316769488
Publication Date: 1991-05-01
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Call Number: PS 3562 .E353 T6 1960
ISBN: B00E28LOCO
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Call Number: PS 3562 .E353 T6 1960
ISBN: 9780156028356
Publication Date: 2003-05-28

Banned/Challenged Books

Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Call Number: PR 6029 .R8 N647 2005
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell; Erich Fromm (Afterword by)
Call Number: PR 6029 .R8 N647 2005
ISBN: 9780451524935
Publication Date: 1950-07-01
Ulysses by James Joyce
Call Number: PR 6019 .O9 U4 1961
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Call Number: PS 3563 .O8749 B4 1987
ISBN: 9781580601207
Uncle Tom's Cabin by David S. Reynolds (Editor); Harriet Beecher Stowe; Hammatt Billings (Illustrator)
Call Number: PS 2954 .U5 1998b
ISBN: 9780199841431
Publication Date: 2011-07-21

VIETNAM WAR BOOK BANNED IN MAINE!

Where in Maine? Closer than you think. But, wait – that happened many years ago - 1981 to be exact! Well, apparently, a student challenged the ban and the case was taken to court and drew national attention.

You can read about the incident at these links.

http://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/26/books/vietnam-war-book-banned-in-maine.html

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/1982/02/02/01190105.h01.html

365 Days by Ronald J. Glasser
Call Number: 959.704 Gla
ISBN: 9780807615270
Publication Date: 2004-01-01