Banned Books Week: Youth Services

Who challenges books? Why? What’s the difference between a challenge and a ban?
Take our quick quiz, below; then visit http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bannedbooksweek.htm to learn all about it!

Banned Books Quiz:

1. What is the most challenged children’s book title of 2006?

2. Which popular early chapter book character is being accused of talking trash?

3. Fund-raiser fraught with issues: which ‘classic’ high school novel is consistently challenged?

4. Which wizard’s seven stories top the list as the MOST CHALLENGED books of the 21st century?

5. What’s normal? Can you name this highly-challenged children’s book on human development?

Answers:
1. And Tango Makes 3, by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson

2. Junie B Jones series, by Barbara Parks

3. The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier

4. Harry Potter series, by J. K. Rowling

5. It’s Perfectly Normal, by Robie Harris