Banned and Challenged Books
in Texas Public Schools
2002-2003
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| Title |
Author |
School District |
School Involved |
Use |
Reason for Challenge |
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Achingly
Alice |
As an eighth grader,
Alice
is discovering her sexuality while at the same time experiencing
the daily struggles of growing up with two brothers and a widowed
father. |
|
|
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
|
North
East
Independent
School District
(San
Antonio)
|
Fox Run Elementary
|
Library
|
Sexual Content
|
|
|
Pleasant
Grove
Independent
School District
(Texarkana)
|
Pleasant
Grove
Middle School
|
Library
|
Sexual Content
|
|
Adventures of Super Diaper Baby
|
When their principal finds George
and Harold causing havoc in the cafeteria, he assigns them an essay
on good citizenship so they do not write another comic about their
superhero, Captain Underpants. Instead George and Harold write about
a new "superhero", Super Diaper Baby and his fight against evil
Deputy Doo-Doo.
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|
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Dav
Pilkey
|
Abilene
Independent
School District
|
Ortiz Elementary
|
Library
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
Other: References to bodily waste
|
|
Airframe
|
Casey Singleton's life is threatened
when she is sent by her boss at Norton Aircraft to investigate the
mysterious circumstances of an airliner incident which killed three
and wounded 56.
|
|
|
Michael Crichton
|
Lumberton
Independent
School District
|
Lumberton
Middle School
|
Library
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
|
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Alice
in April
|
Alice
is just about to turn 13 and is expected to be the woman of the
house to her father and brother. She also copes with boys critiquing
the figures of the girls, and the abuse of a classmate who later
commits suicide.
|
|
|
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
|
Humble
Independent
School District
|
Riverwood
Middle School
|
Library
|
Other: Inappropriate subject
content for adolescents
|
|
Alice
in Lace
|
Alice's
eighth grade health class instructor has assigned the students real-life
scenarios to write about, such as pregnancy, shoplifting, and planning
a funeral. Alice and her friend Patrick are to plan their wedding
and honeymoon, find an apartment, and buy furniture on a limited
budget.
|
|
|
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
|
Humble
Independent
School District
|
Riverwood
Middle School
|
Library
Other: Inappropriate subject
content for adolescents
|
|
Alice
In Rapture, Sort Of
|
This book in the
Alice
series covers the summer between grade school and junior high, when
Alice and her sixth-grade friend Patrick start dating.
|
|
|
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
|
Humble
Independent
School District
|
Riverwood
Middle School
|
Library
|
Other: Inappropriate subject
content for adolescents
|
|
Alice
on the Outside
|
Alice
is in the eighth grade and wonders about her relationship with her
boyfriend, Patrick. She gains some insight into the nature of prejudice
from a week-long consciousness-raising exercise at school, and must
deal with a crush that another female student has on her.
|
|
|
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
|
Columbia-Brazoria
Independent
School District
(West Columbia)
|
Charlie Brown Intermediate
|
Library
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
Sexual Content
|
|
|
Humble
Independent
School District
|
Riverwood
Middle School
|
Library
|
Other: Inappropriate subject
content for adolescents
|
|
|
Linden-Kildare Consolidated
Independent
School District
(Linden)
|
Linden-Kildare Junior High
|
Library
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
|
|
|
McKinney
Independent
School District
|
Scott
Johnson
Middle School
|
Library
|
Sexual Content
|
|
All But
Alice
|
Entering seventh grade, motherless
Alice
decides that she should try to find universal sisterhood. On her
quest she joins a series of girls' clubs and is disillusioned. She
also must deal with her father's dating and decide whether she should
stick with her boyfriend Patrick.
|
|
|
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
|
Columbia-Brazoria
Independent
School District
(West Columbia)
|
Charlie Brown Intermediate
|
Library
|
Sexual Content
|
|
Alpha and the Dirty Baby
|
A young girl must outwit the
family of imps that changed her parents into a lump of coal and
an egg in order to get them back to normal.
|
|
|
Cole Brock
|
Abilene
Independent
School District
|
Ward Elementary
|
Library
|
Violence or Horror Mysticism
or Paganism
|
|
Anastasia Krupnik
|
Anastasia, a precocious ten-year-old
girl, keeps lists of things she loves and hates in a notebook, has
a difficult time dealing with her mother's recently-announced pregnancy,
falls for a 6th grader of a different race, tries being Catholic,
and deals with the death of her grandmother.
|
|
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Lois Lowry
|
New Braunfels
Independent
School District
|
Lone Star Elementary
|
Curriculum
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
|
|
Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal
Snogging
|
Humorous journal of a year in
the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl. She tries to reduce
the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood
animals, and win the love of handsome Robbie.
|
|
|
Louise Rennison
|
Houston
Independent
School District
|
West
Briar
Middle School
|
Library
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
Sexual Content
|
|
|
Irving
Independent
School District
|
Lamar
Middle School
|
Library
|
Sexual Content
|
|
Animalia
|
Animalia
is an ABC book using alliteration to teach each letter of the alphabet
along with pictures of random objects.
|
|
|
Graeme Base
|
Seguin
Independent
School District
|
McQueeney
Elementary
|
Library
|
Violence or Horror
|
|
Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories
|
This book is a collection of
six short stories whose protagonists learn about tough situations
in life through their involvement in sports.
|
|
|
Chris Crutcher
|
Gregory-Portland
Indepenent School District
(Gregory)
|
Gregory-Portland Junior High School
|
Library
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
Sexual Content
|
|
The Bad Beginning: A Series of Unfortunate
Events
|
First in a series of stories
about the Baudelaire children. Their sad tale begins with the loss
of their parents in a fire and their subsequent life with mean Count
Olaf whose only desire is to obtain
the children's inheritance.
|
|
|
Lemony Snickett
|
Cypress-Fairbanks
Independent
School District
(Houston)
|
Sheridan
Elementary School
|
Curriculum
|
Other: Discusses child abuse
and negative thoughts
|
|
The Beet Fields
|
For a 16-year-old boy out in
the world alone for the first time, every day is an education in
the hard work and boredom of migrant labor and teaches him more
about friendship, hunger, or profanity. He joins a carnival and
becomes a grunt, running a ride and shilling for the geek show.
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|
|
Gary Paulsen
|
Rivercrest
Independent
School District
(Bogata)
|
Rivercrest
Junior High School
|
Library
|
Sexual Content
|
|
Bless Me, Ultima
|
Antonio, a young Hispanic boy
in
New Mexico,
faces a complex maturation process after Ultima,
a "curandera," comes to live with his
family. Antonio is torn between his traditional Catholic beliefs
and the influence of Ultima, who cures
with herbs and uses supernatural forces to combat evil in their
midst.
|
|
|
Rudolfo
Anaya
|
Hubbard
Independent
School District
|
Hubbard
High School
|
Curriculum
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
Sexual Content Violence or Horror Mysticism or Paganism
|
|
|
Van Vleck
Independent School District
|
High School
|
Curriculum
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
Sexual Content
|
|
Body of Christopher Creed
|
Chris Creed is the school misfit
who disappears one day. Speculation is that he has committed suicide,
run away, or is a victim of crime. Torrey
Adams becomes concerned (out of guilt) and begins to look for Chris.
He finds that some mysteries are meant to be overcome rather than
solved.
|
|
|
Carol Plum-Ucci
|
McKinney
Independent
School District
|
Faubion
Middle School
|
Library
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
|
|
Born Too Short: The Confessions
of an Eighth-Grade Basket Case
|
Matt Greene is short, lacks sexual
experience, and has a cracking voice. He envies his best friend,
Keith Livingston, who is tall, good-looking and very attractive
to girls. One night, after Matt vents his frustration through a
series of nasty wishes, Keith's fortunes start to turn sour while
Matt's life takes a positive turn.
|
|
|
Dan Elish
|
Arlington
Independent
School District
|
Nichols
Junior High School
|
Library
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
Sexual Content
|
|
Brave New World
|
This novel describes a utopian
state in which everyone consumes daily doses
of "soma", babies
are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment
is "Feelie", a movie that stimulates
the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Bernard senses that his
relationship with a young woman has potential beyond the confines
of their normal existence.
|
|
|
Aldous
Huxley
|
South
Texas
Independent
School District
(Mercedes)
|
Science
Academy
|
Curriculum
|
Sexual Content
|
|
Bridge to Terabithia
|
Jesse's dull rural world expands
when he becomes friends with Leslie, the new girl in school, and
they create a secret world of Terabithia
beneath a tree. When Leslie dies while trying to reach it in a storm,
Jesse struggles to deal with her death and the effect her life had
upon his.
|
|
|
Katherine Peterson
|
Cypress-Fairbanks
Independent
School District
(Houston)
|
Sheridan
Elementary School
|
Curriculum
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
|
|
Las Brujas
(The Witches)
|
A young boy and his Norwegian
grandmother, an expert on witches, thwart a witches' plot to destroy
the world's children by turning them into mice.
|
|
|
Roald
Dahl
|
Pasadena
Independent
School District
|
Parks Elementary
|
Library
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
|
|
Buried Onions
|
Eddie tries to escape from the
poverty and gang society that surround him by taking classes and
staying away from his old gang friends. But when his cousin is killed,
his aunt urges him to go after the murderer. Eddie tries to leave
the neighborhood by taking a landscaping job, but this job goes
awry. He joins the military and hopes that this decision will give
him his best chance yet for a good life.
|
|
|
Gary Soto
|
Victoria
Independent
School District
|
Juan Linn Elementary
|
Library
|
Violence or Horror
|
|
Cave Under the City
|
Tolly,
twelve, and his brother, Bubber, six,
are growing up in the
Bronx
during the Depression. Their father must leave home to find work,
and their mother and grandmother are too ill to care for them. The
boys take to the streets to avoid being taken by the authorities
and separated.
|
|
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Harry Mazer
|
Darrouzett
Independent
School District
|
Darrouzett
Elementary
|
Library
|
Other: Inappropriate themes
|
|
The Cay
|
In April, 1942, following the
torpedo blast that sinks his Virginia-bound ship, eleven-year-old
Phillip Enright is left blinded and
stranded on a saltwater cay with a large Negro named Timothy. Phillip
learns to trust and love Timothy in order to survive.
|
|
|
Theodore Taylor
|
Terrell
Independent
School District
|
Wood
Intermediate
School
|
Library
|
Other: Racial remarks, prejudice
|
|
Children, Violence, and Murder
|
Causes of violent crime involving
children as well as attitudes toward child criminals are explored.
Case histories of young murderers, and tragedies such as the
Columbine
High School
shooting, are profiled.
|
|
|
Richard Worth
|
Wharton
Independent
School District
|
Wharton
Junior High School
|
Library
|
Violence or Horror
|
|
The
China
Garden
|
Seventeen-year-old Clare Meredith
goes to Ravensmere, an English estate,
to vacation prior to entering university. She begins to have psychic
visions and senses that she has been to the area before, and local
villagers seem to recognize her. She is mysteriously drawn to
midnight
walks in an abandoned "China
Garden," and subsequently becomes romantically involved with a young biker named
Mark.
|
|
|
Liz Berry
|
Cleburne
Independent
School District
|
Cleburne
Middle School
|
Library
|
Sexual Content Mysticism or Paganism
|
|
The Chocolate War
|
Stunned by his mother's recent
death and appalled by the way his father sleepwalks through life,
Jerry Renault, a
New England
high school student, ponders the poster in his locker -- "Do I dare
disturb the universe?" Jerry defies the school bully, Archie, and
is at first a hero -- then a victim.
Citations include "ALA Best Book for Young Adults."
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|
|
Robert Cormier
|
Dime
Box
Independent
School District
|
Dime
Box High School
|
Curriculum
|
Sexual Content Violence or Horror
Other: Contradicts character education
|
|
Christmas Sonata
|
A young boy and his mother travel
to northern
Minnesota
to spend Christmas 1943 with relatives. The boy and his cousin,
who is dying, declare that there is no Santa Claus. The boy's uncle
overhears the conversation, and succeeds in restoring the children's
faith in the spirit of Christmas.
|
|
|
Gary Paulsen
|
Irving
Independent
School District
|
Barton Elementary
|
Library
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
|
|
The Cold One
|
The lives of several strangers
in various parts of the world intersect when they all become the
target of "The Cold One," an ancient, supernatural evil being.
|
|
|
Christopher Pike
|
Linden-Kildare Consolidated
Independent
School District
(Linden)
|
Linden-Kildare Junior High
|
Library
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
Sexual Content
|
|
Crazy Lady
|
Junior high isn't as easy as
Vernon Dibbs expected. Since his mother
died a couple of years ago, his life seems a little lost. To make
some money and stay out of trouble, he begins tutoring the son of
his alcoholic neighbor, Maxine.
Vernon
develops a bond with Maxine's son and helps her learn that giving
up her son will give him greater opportunities.
|
|
|
Jane Leslie
Conly
|
North
East
Independent
School District
(San
Antonio)
|
Fox Run Elementary
|
Library
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
|
|
Cut
|
Thirteen year-old Callie is confined
to a mental hospital, Sea Pines, because she cuts herself with sharp
objects. She gradually improves and responds to therapy.
|
|
|
Patricia McCormick
|
Bandera
Independent
School District
|
Bandera
Middle School
|
Curriculum
|
Other: Inappropriate subject
matter
|
|
Deal With it: A Whole New Approach
to Your Body, Brain, and Life as a Gurl
|
"Growing up" questions for young
girls are answered in a frank and forthright manner. Topics include
pimple remedies, masturbation techniques, anxiety, and depression.
With Rebecca Odes and Heather McDonald.
|
|
|
Esther Drill
|
Cypress-Fairbanks
Independent
School District
(Houston)
|
Cypress
Springs
High School
|
Library
|
Sexual Content
|
|
Detour for Emmy
|
Emmy is an ideal and popular
student through the eighth grade. Then, in the ninth grade, she
falls in love and becomes pregnant. Bewildered, she faces the consequences
as best she can -- demonstrating both bravery and weakness.
|
|
|
Marilyn Reynolds
|
Elgin
Independent
School District
|
Elgin
Middle School
|
Library
|
Sexual Content
|
|
Die Softly: Die Softly
|
Herb secretly photographs the
school cheerleaders while they are showering and inadvertently gets
one photo of someone sneaking up on one of the girls with a baseball
bat. The same girl reportedly dies in an auto accident just afterwards,
causing Herb to suspect that the girl was dead before the accident
occurred. Herb becomes a suspect for murder.
|
|
|
Christopher Pike
|
Houston
Independent
School District
|
P.
Henry
Middle School
|
Library
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
|
|
Dove Song
|
When teen-agers Bobbie Lynn and
Mason's father is sent to
Viet Nam,
their mother suffers from extreme depression and neglects them.
After the father becomes "missing in action," the mother's depression
becomes debilitating and the children are eventually forced to seek
help from the parents of their new friends, the
Feeneys.
|
|
|
Kristine L. Franklin
|
Northside
Independent
School District
(Vernon)
|
Elementary
|
Library
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
|
|
Draw Me a Star
|
The artist tells a young child
to draw a star, then the star tells him
to draw a Sun, then a man and a woman and so on until a "universe"
is created. The story is based on the author's memory of stories
told to him as a child by his grandmother.
|
|
|
Eric Carle
|
Aldine
Independent
School District
(Houston)
|
Magrill
Elementary
|
Library
|
Sexual Content Other: Nude illustration
|
|
Dream Wolf
|
Tiblo
and his sister Tanksi, young Indians
living in the great plains, become lost while picking berries in
the mountains. After a wolf leads the children back home, the tribe
adopts a new attitude towards the "Wolf People."
|
|
|
Paul Goble
|
Bullard
Independent
School District
|
Bullard Elementary
|
Curriculum
|
Mysticism or Paganism
|
|
Drive-By
|
Twelve year-old Tito is left
to help care for his sister in the aftermath of his older brother
Jimmy's murder by fellow gang members. He soon learns that the murder
was a result of Jimmy's skimming drug money, and that he is now
expected to pay up.
|
|
|
Lynne Ewing
|
Cypress-Fairbanks
Independent
School District
(Houston)
|
Bleyl
Middle School
|
Library
|
Violence or Horror Other: Suggestive
of gangs
|
|
Early Sunday Morning: The
Pearl Harbor
Diary of Amber Billows,
Hawaii,
1941 (Dear
America
Series)
|
Twelve year-old Amber moves to
Hawaii
in 1941. Her diary notations include her experiences during the
move and the bombing of
Pearl Harbor
in December of that year.
|
|
|
Barry Denenberg
|
Garland
Independent
School District
|
Steadham
Elementary
|
Library
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
|
|
Empress of the World
|
Fifteen year-old Nicola, while
attending a summer program for gifted children, falls in love with
another girl. Nicola is startled by the realization and tries to
sort out her identity.
|
|
|
Sarah Ryan
|
Grand Prairie
Independent
School District
|
Arnold
Middle School
|
Library
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
|
|
The Exchange Student
|
In the year 2094,
Daria's mother takes in an exchange
student from the planet Chela. Unknown
to them, Fen (the exchange student) is secretly conspiring to take
some earth animals back to Chela, where
animals have become extinct because of wildlife conservation practices
there.
|
|
|
Kate Gilmore
|
Cypress-Fairbanks
Independent
School District
(Houston)
|
Cook
Middle School
|
Library
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
|
|
The Face on the Milk Carton
|
High school student Janie Johnson
is shocked when she recognizes a missing child's picture on a milk
carton as herself. Throughout the book Janie attempts to piece together
her past, eventually confronting her parents and learning that they
are actually her grandparents.
|
|
|
Caroline B. Cooney
|
Flour
Bluff
Independent
School District
|
Flour
Bluff
Intermediate
School
|
Curriculum
|
Sexual Content Other: Challenge
to authority
|
|
Fallen Angels
|
Perry, a
Harlem teen-ager, is sent to the front lines in
Viet Nam
in the '60's, where he faces death in face-to-face confrontations
with the Viet Cong. As he struggles to find virtue in himself and
his comrades, he questions why the black troops are given the most
dangerous assignments, and even why
U. S.
troops are there at all. Winner of the 1989
Coretta Scott King award.
|
|
|
Walter Dean Myers
|
Gilmer
Independent
School District
|
Gilmer
High School
|
Curriculum
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
Other: Racial epithets
|
|
Forever
|
This story of first love between
teen-agers involves sexual activity, separation and loyalty, parental
relationships, and other young adult issues surrounding romantic
relationships.
|
|
|
Judy Blume
|
Houston
Independent
School District
|
P.
Henry
Middle School
|
Library
|
Sexual Content
|
|
|
Linden-Kildare Consolidated
Independent
School District
|
Linden-Kildare Junior High
|
Library
|
Sexual Content
|
|
The Fountainhead
|
Howard Roark is an architect
who has independent and innovative ideas.
As he struggles to find his own way, he is almost destroyed
by Dominique Francon, his lover, and
a series of other antagonists. Roark exemplifies the author's philosophy,
which is based on the idea of the human ego as the "fountainhead"
of all progress and on the virtue of selfishness.
|
|
|
Ayn
Rand
|
Dublin
Independent
School District
|
Dublin
High School
|
Curriculum
|
Sexual Content Other: Adult theme
Other: Length of book
|
|
Gerald's Game
|
Gerald and his wife Jessie experiment
with a bedroom game that involves handcuffing Jessie to the bedpost.
Things go awry and Jessie ends up stranded for 28 hours in the same
room with her husband's corpse.
|
|
|
Stephen King
|
Cypress-Fairbanks
Independent
School District
(Houston)
|
Jersey
Village
High School
|
Library
|
Sexual Content Violence or Horror
Other: Discusses incest
|
|
Ghost Girl
|
Torey
Hayden attempts to communicate with a young girl named
Jadie, who never speaks or shows any
kind of emotion to anyone.
When Jadie finally does reveal
her story, the nightmare is too horrendous to contemplate.
|
|
|
Torey
L. Hayden
|
McKinney
Independent
School District
|
Scott
Johnson
Middle School
|
Library
|
Sexual Content
|
|
Ghost of a Chance
|
Melissa Soul is a sixteen-year-old
whose parents are divorcing -- and there are other problems. Her
best friend Chloe introduces her to James, and both girls fall in
love with him. The situation is further complicated since James
is a ghost who can be in two places at one time -- and gives new
meaning to "two-timing."
|
|
|
Laura Peyton Roberts
|
Kerrville
Independent
School District
|
Nimitz
Elementary
|
Library
|
Sexual Content
|
|
Goddess of the Night (Daughters
of the Moon, 1)
|
Vanessa, Catty, Serena, and
Jimena are the mortal daughters of the
moon goddess Selene. They have been
sent to earth to battle Atrox, the forces
of darkness. Each of the four has a special but different supernatural
talent, and all must work in unison to be successful against the
forces. When Catty, who can travel through time, disappears, they
wonder if she is a victim of Atrox.
|
|
|
Lynne Ewing
|
Fort
Bend
Independent
School District
(Sugarland)
|
First
Colony
Middle School
|
Library
|
Violence or Horror Mysticism
or Paganism
|
|
Goosebumps and R.L. Stine Series
|
Multi-part series of stories
involving ghosts, goblins, and scary happenings.
|
|
|
R.L. Stine
|
Houston
Independent
School District
|
Port
Houston
Elementary School
|
Library
|
Violence or Horror
|
|
The Grapes of Wrath
|
Story of the
Joad family who travel to
California
after their farm has been destroyed by the effects
of
"The Dust Bowl" drought. Their trip exposes the family
to the hardships of surviving during the Depression. The
Joad's experience loss of several family
members and the hope for steady employment when they finally reach
California. Steinbeck's novel uses the Joads' story to
symbolize the plight and endurance of migrant farm workers in
America.
|
|
|
John Steinbeck
|
Smyer
Independent
School District
|
High School
|
Curriculum
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
Sexual Content
|
|
The Great Gilly
Hopkins
|
Gilly
is a precocious eleven-year-old girl who has lived with several
foster families, all of which she has disliked intensely. She is
sent to live with the Trotter family, the strangest so far, and
devises a scheme to persuade her real mother to take her away. The
plans do not work out to Gilly's expectations,
and she begins to wonder if she would rather stay with the Trotters.
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K. Patterson
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Lingleville
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Lingleville
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Library
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
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Grizz
|
Retold Grimm brothers' fairy
tale about a young suitor who makes a pact with the devil to not
groom himself in return for the hand of a young woman and great
wealth.
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Eric A. Kimmel
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Corpus Christi
Independent
School District
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T.G. Allen Elementary
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Library
|
Mysticism or Paganism
|
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The Grooming of
Alice
|
Continuing story of Alice and
her friends -- about to enter ninth grade -- and their struggles
with adolescence, friendships, family and first love.
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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Humble
Independent
School District
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Riverwood
Middle School
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Library
|
Other: Inappropriate subject
content for adolescents
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of
Secrets
|
Harry Potter is in his second
year at the Hogwart's
School
of
Witchcraft and Wizardry. Old friends and new torments abound, including a spirit
named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girl's bathroom, a conceited
professor, and a mysterious force that turns
Hogwart students to stone.
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J.K. Rowling
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Blooming
Grove
Independent
School District
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Elementary
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Library
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Mysticism or Paganism
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Tatum
Independent
School District
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Tatum
High School
|
Curriculum
|
Mysticism or Paganism
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
|
Harry Potter is in his fourth
year at Hogwart's
School
of
Witchcraft and Wizardry. He attends the Quidditch World
Cup with Ron and Hermione during the summer. Back at school, someone
mysteriously enters Harry name to compete in the dangerous "Tri-Wizard
Tournament."
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J.K. Rowling
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Blooming
Grove
Independent
School District
|
Elementary
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Library
|
Mysticism or Paganism
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Tatum
Independent
School District
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Tatum
High School
|
Curriculum
|
Mysticism or Paganism
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
Azkaban
|
Harry Potter is in his third
year at Hogwart's
School
of
Witchcraft and Wizardry. He is threatened by the evil Sirius Black, convicted of
killing thirteen people with a single curse and recently escaped
from Azkaban prison.
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J.K. Rowling
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Blooming
Grove
Independent
School District
|
Elementary
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Library
|
Mysticism or Paganism
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La
Feria
Independent
School District
|
C.E. Vail Elementary
|
Library
|
Other: Use of the word "bitch"
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Tatum
Independent
School District
|
Tatum
High School
|
Curriculum
|
Mysticism or Paganism
|
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's
Stone
|
First in a series of books chronicling
Harry Potter's adventures at the Hogwart's
School
of
Witchcraft and Wizardry. Raised by a non-wizard "muggle"
aunt and uncle, Harry does not know that his parents were wizards
and he is famous in the wizard world. He is summoned to attend the
infamous school and has the first of many adventures.
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J.K. Rowling
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Blooming
Grove
Independent
School District
|
Elementary
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Library
|
Mysticism or Paganism
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Houston
Independent
School District
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Golfcrest
Elementary School
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Library
|
Other: Parent's religious beliefs
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Tatum
Independent
School District
|
Tatum
High School
|
Curriculum
|
Mysticism or Paganism
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Hello, I Lied
|
Story of a seventeen year-old
gay teen, Lang, and how his relationship with an older actor becomes
complicated when Lang gets emotionally involved with a young French
woman.
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M.E. Kerr
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Brenham
Independent
School District
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Brenham
Middle School
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Library
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Other: Homosexual Content
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Hoops
|
A high school basketball player
from
Harlem
is befriended by a former professional player who, after being forced
to quit because of a game-related scandal, hopes to prevent other
young athletes from repeating his mistake.
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Walter Dean Myers
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McKinney
Independent
School District
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Scott
Johnson
Middle School
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Library
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
Sexual Content
|
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House of the Spirits
|
Epic tale of a South American
family, the Truebas, in an unidentified
county that appears to be
Chile,
with a focus on a young girl who becomes the matriarch of the clan.
Clara has telepathic abilities, can read fortunes, make objects
move, and predict the future. The book focuses on the extended family
and their relationships in the context of the political/military
oppression of the country.
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Isabelle
Allende
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Leander
Independent
School District
|
Leander
High School
|
Curriculum
|
Sexual Content
|
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How Sex Works
|
The book is intended to facilitate
discussion of sexual issues between parents and their children,
and includes photographs and sketches showing, among other things,
proper insertion of birth control devices and sexual positions.
Puberty, love, pregnancy, sexual myths, and reproductive health
are but a few of the topics discussed.
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Elizabeth
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Fenwick
|
Fort
Bend
Independent
School District
(Sugarland)
|
Stephen
F.
Austin
High School
|
Library
|
|
How to Eat Fried
Worms
|
Because of a bet to win a mini-bike,
ten year-old Billy has to eat fifteen worms in fifteen days.
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Thomas Rockwell
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Liberty
Independent
School District
|
San Jacinto
Elementary
|
Library
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
|
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I Have to Go
|
Little Andrew struggles with
learning to adjust his needs to the adult world and its expectations.
The book is targeted to preschoolers "in the throes of toilet training."
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Robert Munsch
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Corsicana
Independent
School District
|
Elementary
|
Library
|
Other: bathroom humor
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Gonzales
Independent
School District
|
Gonzales Junior High
|
Library
|
Other: Use of slang word for
urination
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The Impact Zone
|
Jim runs away from his mother
and stepfather to
Hawaii,
where he has various adventures and gets into surfing a treacherous
wave called the Pipeline, or the "impact zone."
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|
Ray Maloney
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Cypress-Fairbanks
Independent
School District
(Houston)
|
Dean
Middle School
|
Library
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
Sexual Content
|
|
In the Night Kitchen
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Mickey, a small boy, dreams of
a "Night Kitchen" where he makes a cake with a cook that looks like
Oliver Hardy and has an adventure looking for milk for the morning
cake.
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Maurice
Sendak
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Gilmer
Independent
School District
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Gilmer Elementary
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Library
|
Other: Naked child in illustration
|
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Inner City Mother Goose
|
Revised versions of the traditional
Mother Goose rhymes with a focus on inner-city political and social
issues.
|
|
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Eve Merriam
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Bay City
Independent
School District
|
McAllister
Middle School
|
Library
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
Violence or Horror Other: Homosexual content
|
|
Invisible Man
|
A classic since 1952 when it
was first published, Invisible Man chronicles
the trials and tribulations of the narrator, a young, nameless black
man, as he experiences American intolerance and racism both in the
South and in
New York City.
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Ralph Ellison
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Van Vleck
Independent School District
|
High School
|
Curriculum
|
Other: Content of beginning chapters
|
|
It
|
It (Derry) is a small town that is haunted by a mysterious evil force. Several people
stumble upon the horror as teen-agers, then leave town to seek success
in the world. As adults, they are mysteriously drawn back to
Derry to once again face the nightmare.
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Stephen King
|
East
Central
Indepenent
School District
(San
Antonio)
|
Bexar
County
Learning
Center
|
Library
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
Sexual Content Violence or Horror Mysticism or Paganism
|
|
It's Halloween
|
Children's book of rhymes and
illustrations about the holiday of Halloween. Illustrated by Marilyn
Hafner.
|
|
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Jack Prelutsky
|
Waco
Independent
School District
|
Alta
Vista Montessori Elementary
|
Library
|
Mysticism or Paganism
|
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It's Perfectly Normal: Changing
Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health
|
Book for adolescents that explains
the physical, psychological, emotional and social changes that occur
during puberty. Includes watercolor and pencil illustrations of
various body types to encourage teen self-acceptance. Illustrated
by Michael Emberley.
|
|
|
Robie
H. Harris
|
Cypress-Fairbanks
Independent
School District
(Houston)
|
Aragon
Middle School
|
Library
|
Sexual Content Other: Graphic
drawings of sexuality
|
|
It's So Amazing! A Book about Eggs,
Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families
|
Written in comic book style,
this book is directed towards assisting parents in talking to children
about "where babies come from," and addresses topics such as conception,
birth, love, sexuality and family. Illustrated by Michael
Emberley.
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|
|
Robie
Harris
|
Hays Consolidated
Independent
School District
(Kyle)
|
Tom Green Elementary
|
Library
|
Sexual Content
|
|
Jacob Have I Loved
|
Told from the perspective of
one of a pair of twin sisters who feels inferior to her beautiful
and talented sibling, the novel explores the strained relationship
between the sisters and issues of jealousy, resentment, family relationships,
and community life.
|
|
|
Katherine Paterson
|
Houston
Independent
School District
|
Elrod
Elementary School
|
Curriculum
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
|
|
Jazmin's Notebook
|
Fourteen year-old
Jazmin Shelby keeps a daily notebook
where she records all the daily happenings of her life in 1960s
Harlem. Jazmin has a mentally unstable mother in
an institution, a dead father, and has been shuttled between foster
homes and other temporary arrangements. With the help of her older
sister CeCe and supportive friends and
community she is able to avoid the pitfalls of drugs, violence and
sexual activity and continues working towards her dreams.
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|
|
Nikki Grimes
|
Mexia
Independent
School District
|
R.Q. Sims Intermediate
|
Library
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
Sexual Content
|
|
Junie B. Jones is a Beauty Shop Guy
|
The story of a
kindergardener's adventure after she
decides to become a hair dresser. She begins practicing her craft
on her bunny slippers, the dog, and eventually on herself. When
she goes to school wearing three hats to cover her experiments,
her teacher is sympathetic and her dad exasperated.
Junie finally solves the problem by
asking her teacher for help.
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Barbara Park
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Houston
Independent
School District
|
Kolter
Elementary
|
Library
|
Other: poor grammar example
|
|
Kissing Doorknobs
|
Tara
is diagnosed at eleven years of age with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
(OCD). The story traces the progression of
Tara's illness and the reactions of her family and friends, while also addressing
anorexia, shoplifting, drug use, and unsafe sex. Nominated by the
Young Adult Library Services Association as one of 1998's Best Books
for Young Adults.
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|
|
Terry Spencer
Hesser
|
Pleasant
Grove
Independent
School District
|
Pleasant
Grove
Middle School
|
Library
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
|
|
Knock a Star: A Child's Introduction
to Poetry, 1982 Edition
|
Collection of poems accompanied
by black and white pencil sketches.
Includes explanations of different types of poems and includes
works by well-known poets like Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes,
and Walt Whitman, as well as lesser-known poets
|
|
|
X.J. Kennedy
|
Austin
Independent
School District
|
Williams
Elementary School
|
Library
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
|
|
The Last
Mission
|
Story of a young Jewish-American
fifteen-year-old in 1944 who, dreaming of being a hero, lies about
his age to enter the U.S. Air Force. After flying numerous successful
bombing missions, Jack is shot down behind enemy lines and taken
to a German POW camp.
|
|
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Harry Mazer
|
Burkburnett
Independent
School District
|
Burkburnett
Middle School
|
Library
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
|
|
A Little Bit Dead
|
A young white man risks his life
to save a Native American in the late 1800's. Eighteen-year-old
Reece also falls in love with and marries an ex-prostitute and then
adopts an orphan boy.
|
|
|
Chap Reaver
|
Pleasant
Grove
Independent
School District
|
Pleasant
Grove
Middle School
|
Library
|
Sexual Content
|
|
Looking After Lily
|
A sequel to the 1992 Lily follows
the 1880s adventures of sixteen-year-old
Texas
outlaw Haywood Beatty and his pregnant sister-in-law Lily, whose
husband is in jail, as they struggle to lead respectable lives and
begin a relationship together.
|
|
|
Cindy Bonner
|
Commerce
Independent
School District
|
Commerce
Middle School
|
Library
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
|
|
Lysistrata
|
Ancient Greek play about an Athenian
woman, Lysistrata, who is tired of the
Greek city-states warring against each other.
Lysistrata convinces all the women in
town to deprive their husbands of sex until they agree to make peace.
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|
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Aristophanes
|
Stafford
Municipal
School District
|
Stafford
High School
|
Curriculum
|
Sexual Content
|
|
Mars Crossing
|
Science fiction novel set in
the year 2028. The crew of the Don Quijote
are stranded on Mars when a technical mishap occurs, dooming their
ship. Five of them set out for an abandoned Brazilian ship, but
only three will be able to return home on that ship. It becomes
evident that someone is determined to eliminate the others in order
to return to Earth.
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|
|
Geoffrey A. Landis
|
McKinney
Independent
School District
|
Scott
Johnson
Middle School
|
Library
|
Sexual Content
|
|
Meet the Werewolf (The Eerie Series)
|
The origins, habits, myths, legends,
and famous case histories of werewolves.
|
|
|
Georgess
McHargue
|
Longview
Independent
School District
|
Pinewood
Park
Elementary
|
Library
|
Other: Fantasy
|
|
More Scary Stories to Tell in the
Dark
|
Collection of scary "campfire"
stories for young people, including hauntings,
ghosts, and other eerie happenings.
|
|
|
Alvin E. Schwartz
|
Arlington
Independent
School District
|
Ellis Elementary
|
Library
|
Violence or Horror Mysticism
or Paganism
|
|
Neverwhere
|
Story of a hard-working young
man, Richard, who moves to
London
and gets a respectable job and a fianc‚e.
After stopping one night to help out what appears to be an injured
young girl named Door, he becomes invisible to people he knows and
seems to have no identity. He ends up in "London Below," a city
that exists in a parallel reality beneath the streets of
London,
where he embarks on a mission to destroy the Beast of London and
find an angel.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman
|
Houston
Independent
School District
|
Clifton
Middle School
|
Library
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
|
|
The Ones That Walked Away From
Omelas
|
Short story about a fantasy world
where the happiness of the inhabitants is based on the misery of
one child. Most residents accept the reality that enables their
happiness, while others cannot and choose to leave.
|
|
|
Ursula K.
LeGuin
|
McKinney
Independent
School District
|
Scott
Johnson
Middle School
|
Library
|
Other: Inappropriate for reading
level
|
|
The Outlaws
|
[Ed. note: We are unable to find
any information on this book and have been unable to obtain verification
of the title/author information submitted.
We are including the information as submitted by school officials,
but cannot verify the accuracy of it.]
|
|
|
Unknown
|
Tom
Bean
Independent
School District
|
Tom
Bean
Middle School
|
Curriculum
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
Violence or Horror Other: Instances of gang activity, smoking, and
other inappropriate behavior
|
|
Outrageously
Alice
|
In the ninth novel of the series
Alice
is entering eighth grade and longs for change. She experiments with
clothes and wears her hair in green spikes to be outrageous. But
though she is curious, she is also confused by sex and gender roles.
A lingerie bridal shower for an upcoming wedding, a French kiss
at a Halloween party, and problems in her friends' lives make her
realize how much growing up she still has to do.
|
|
|
Phyllis Reynolds
Naylor
|
Humble
Independent
School District
|
Riverwood
Middle School
|
Library
|
Other: Inappropriate subject
content for adolescents
|
|
The Philharmonic Gets Dressed
|
Follows the 105 members of the
Philharmonic Orchestra as they prepare for their evening's work,
including illustrations of them bathing, powdering, shaving and
dressing. Illustrated by Marc Simont.
|
|
|
Karla Kuskin
|
Mexia
Independent
School District
|
R.Q. Sims Intermediate
|
Library
|
Sexual Content
|
|
The Power of One
|
Story of a scrawny and friendless
white boy growing up in
South Africa
during World War II. Peekay is befriended
by two older men, one black and one white, who help him find his
sense of self and his place in the world.
|
|
|
Bryce Courtney
|
Clear
Creek
Independent
School District
|
Clear
Brook
High School
|
Curriculum
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
Sexual Content Violence or Horror
|
|
A Prayer for Owen
Meany
|
Owen Meany
is a small boy with an eerie high-pitched voice who accidentally
kills his best friend's mother with a baseball and comes to believe
that he is an instrument of God to be redeemed by martyrdom.
|
|
|
John Irving
|
McKinney
Independent
School District
|
Scott
Johnson
Middle School
|
Library
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
Other: Adult content
|
|
Primal Myths
|
An anthology devoted to myths
of creation.
|
|
|
Barbara C.
Sproul
|
Colmesneil
Independent
School District
|
Colmesneil
High School
|
Curriculum
|
Other: Racism
|
|
Saint George and the Dragon
|
Retelling for grade-schoolers
of old tale of Saint George and the Dragon -- the wandering champion
who became the patron saint of
England.
George of Lydda slays the dragon
who has captured
Sabra, the king's daughter, and then goes on to other dragons
and other times. Illustrated by Nicki
Palin.
|
|
|
Geraldine
McCaughrean
|
Cypress-Fairbanks
Independent
School District
(Houston)
|
Copeland
Elementary School
|
Library
|
Violence or Horror
|
|
A Separate Peace
|
The novel is set in a prep school
in
New Hampshire
during World War II. Friendship and jealousy between two boys --
Gene, a lonely, introverted intellectual, and
Phineas (Finny), a handsome, taunting,
daredevil athlete, and what happens between them and within them
one eventful summer.
|
|
|
John Knowles
|
Hamshire-Fannett
Independent
School District
(Hamshire)
|
High School
|
Curriculum
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
Other: References to suicide
|
|
Shabanu
|
Eleven-year old
Shabanu is given by her father, a nomad
living in the desert country of Pakistan, is given in marriage to
an older man she does not love for the purpose of increasing the
family's wealth and prestige. Shabanu
is faced with the decision of whether or not to accept her fate
in accordance with tribal custom and her father's wishes, or risk
considerable adverse consequences.
|
|
|
Suzanne Fisher Staples
|
Corsicana
Independent
School District
|
Middle School
|
Curriculum
|
Sexual Content
|
|
The Shining
|
The guests of the Overlook Hotel
are dead but not necessarily departed. When a family checks in so
that the father can write in the isolated setting, the forces of
evil in residence contrive to drive them insane. The author's young
son, who possesses psychic powers but does not know how to use them,
struggles to save the family.
|
|
|
Stephen King
|
Lago
Vista
Independent
School District
|
Lago
Vista
Middle School
and High School
|
Library
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
Violence or Horror
|
|
Silent to the Bone
|
After calling 911 to report that
his baby sister has stopped breathing, young teen
Branwell Zamborska
stops speaking, is suspected of causing his sister's injury, and
is put in a juvenile center. Told through the eyes of his best friend,
the quest to solve the mystery of what really happened involves
the attractive English au pair who lived with the family.
|
|
|
E.L. Konigsburg
|
Birdville
Independent
School District
(Haltom
City)
|
Middle School
|
Library
|
Sexual Content
|
|
Smack
|
British teen-agers Tar and
Gemma run away from their respective
abusive and alcoholic, or overly-restrictive parents to
Bristol
in search of freedom and end up squatting in a vacant building.
They become addicted to heroin, and the book traces the gradual
transformation and downward spiral of their lives and personalities.
|
|
|
Melvin Burgess
|
Victoria
Independent
School District
|
Juan Linn Elementary
|
Library
|
Sexual Content
|
|
Somebody Else's Kids
|
This book chronicles the struggles
of a special education resource room teacher responsible for four
special-needs children, including a twelve year-old who is pregnant,
an eleven year-old boy whose early life was full of domestic violence,
and a five-year-old with autism.
|
|
|
Torey
L. Hayden
|
Crawford
Independent
School District
|
Crawford
High School
|
Library
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
Sexual Content Violence or Horror
|
|
Song of Solomon
|
Macon Dead is an upper-class
Northern black businessman trying to insulate his family from the
danger and despair of the blacks in the neighborhood. The book follows
Milkman Dead,
Macon's
son, as he struggles to understand his family history and the ways
in which that history has both been damaged and transcended by slavery.
|
|
|
Toni Morrison
|
Newton
Independent
School District
|
Newton
Middle School
|
Library
|
Profanity or Inappropriate Language
|
|
Speak
|
High school freshman Melinda
loses her ability to speak after a senior rapes
her at an end-of-summer party. Melinda struggles to find her voice
in a dysfunctional family and among friends who consider her a traitor
for calling the police, but confronts her rapist and triumphs in
the end.
|
|
|
Laurie H. Anderson
|
McKinney
Independent
School District
|
C.T. Eddins
Elementary
|
Library
|
Sexual Content
|
|
Stephen King
|
[no
description available.]
|
|
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|
|
|
Stephen
|
King
|
Brookeland
Independent
School District
|
All Schools
|
Library
|
|
Stotan!
|
Four high school swim team buddies
join in a challenge by their coach to engage in
Stotan Week -- a nonstop test of physical
and emotional stamina. Each must confront their personal challenges
and circumstances, and friendships, in a way that changes them forever.
|
|
|
Chris Crutcher
|
Pleasant
Grove
Independent
School District
|
Pleasant
Grove
Middle School
|
Library
|
Sexual Content Violence or Horror
Other: Suicide
|
|
A Stranger Came Ashore
|
Robbie, a
Shetland
Island boy, meets a man claiming to be the lone survivor of a shipwreck, but
who is, in all likelihood, a ghost out to harm Robbie and his family.
|
|
|
Mollie Hunter
|
Gonzales
Independent
School District
|
Gonzales Junior High
|
Library
|
Mysticism or Paganism
|
|
Stranger in a Strange Land
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Science fiction story of a man
raised on Mars by Martians who arrives on Earth with no knowledge
of Earth's cultures or religions. He espouses a religion of free
love and psychic intervention which creates turmoil.
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Robert Heinlein
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South
Texas
Independent
School District
(Mercedes)
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Science
Academy
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Curriculum
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Sexual Content
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Stuck in Neutral
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Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel
has cerebral palsy and cannot walk or talk, but, unbeknownst to
anyone, also has excellent cognitive abilities and is well-adjusted
and happy. He discovers that his well-meaning father wants to kill
him to end what his father believes must be a tortured life because
of the physical disability. Told from the perspective of the boy,
raises issues of the meaning of freedom, life and death, and parental
responsibility.
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Terry Trueman
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Crawford
Independent
School District
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Crawford
Middle School
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Library
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Profanity or Inappropriate Language
Sexual Content Violence or Horror
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Take Away Three
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Young adult fiction story of
an affair in marriage.
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Tana
Reiff
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Rivercrest
Independent
School District
(Bogata)
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Rivercrest
Elementary School
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Library
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Other: Inappropriate for age
group
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The Teen-age Boy's Survival Guide:
The Real Deal On Girls, Growing Up, and Other Guy Stuff
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This American version of the
1997 British book Boys Behaving Badly covers issues of interest
to teen-age boys, including dating, pimples, emotional ups and downs,
fighting, masturbation, pornography, and the dangers of drugs.
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Jeremy Daldry
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White
Settlement
Independent
School District
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Brewer
Middle School
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Library
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Sexual Content
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Tell a Lie and Your Butt Will Grow
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A perpetual liar, Zack's science-fair
partner Andrew experiences surprising consequences involving a particular
body part when he engages in bragging or lying -- consequences which
threaten to jeopardize their bicycle-powered electrical generator
science fair project. Cartoon illustrations by Jack E. Davis.
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Dan Greenburg
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Corsicana
Independent
School District
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Elementary
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Library
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Profanity or Inappropriate Language
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Then Again, Maybe I Won't
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Tony Miglione's
life changed forever when his father became rich from an invention.
His family moved to a wealthy neighborhood on
Long Island,
where his new friend Joel shoplifts, his sixteen-year-old sister
undresses in front of her window, and his Grandma won't come down
from her bedroom. Besides his new life, Tony has questions about
growing up.
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Judy Blume
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McKinney
Independent
School District
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C.T. Eddins
Elementary
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Library
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Other: Mature subject matter
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True Believer
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Fifteen-year-old
LaVaughn is surrounded by poverty and
violence, but strives to overcome it by imposing study, discipline
and hard work in her life. When an attractive young man moves back
to the neighborhood, all her best efforts are in jeopardy.
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Virginia
Euwer Wolff
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Houston
Independent
School District
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Poe Elementary
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Library
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Other: Adult content
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Two Moons in August
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Sixteen-year-old
Sidonie and her family deal with their
mother's death in a small town in
Canada
in 1959. Sidonie becomes close to a
young man in the neighborhood who has an alcoholic father, and has
to deal with an absent father and her sister's relationships and
return home.
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Martha Brooks
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Pleasant
Grove
Independent
School District
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Pleasant
Grove
Middle School
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Library
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Sexual Content
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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This 1852 novel of the pre-Civil
War South that provides a historical look at the treatment of slaves
and the institution of slavery at that time, including the tragic
break-up of families.
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Harriett Beecher Stowe
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White
Settlement
Independent
School District
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Brewer
High School
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Curriculum
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Profanity or Inappropriate Language
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Unfinished Dreams: A Novel
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Sixth-grader Jason is an aspiring
violinist who gets encouragement from his school principal. When
the principal becomes ill with AIDS and is scorned by the community
and his classmates, Jason defends him and experiences damaging personal
consequences.
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Jane Breskin
Zalbin
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McKinney
Independent
School District
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C.T. Eddins
Elementary
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Library
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Other: Inappropriate subject
matter
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Weird on the Outside
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Teen-age Tracey
Bascombe runs away to
New York
to escape her dysfunctional parents, and resorts to being a stripper
named "Amanda" in order to survive.
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Shelley
Stoehr
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Galena
Park
Independent
School District
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Cunningham
Middle School
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Library
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Profanity or Inappropriate Language
Sexual Content
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Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod
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Account of Gary Paulsen's experience
running the Iditarod -- the 1150-mile winter sled-dog race between
Anchorage
and
Nome
-- as an inexperienced racer.
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Gary Paulsen
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McKinney
Independent
School District
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C.T. Eddins
Elementary
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Library
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Profanity or Inappropriate Language
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Wonder
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Jessica enters seventh grade
suddenly unpopular and nicknamed after "Wonder Bread" based on her
clothing choices. She perseveres with humor and determination and
learns important lessons about friendship and self-esteem.
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Rachel Vail
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Corsicana
Independent
School District
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Elementary
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Library
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Profanity or Inappropriate Language
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A World Out of Time
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Jaybee
Corbell travels three million years
into the future to a homecoming on a transformed earth.
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Larry Niven
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Houston
Independent
School District
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Eastwood
Academy
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Curriculum
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Sexual Content
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