Nat Hentoff -- Nicholas J. Karolides -- Banned by neglect: Tom Sawyer, teaching the conflicts / Tim Hirsch -- Growing up with the Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor / Katherine T. Buchner and M. Lee Manning -- Facing intolerance: All-American Boys by Frank Mosca / Sharon M. Scapple -- Always Running from the real issues: why kids should read about gangs and drugs / Peter E. Morgan -- The amazing bone: any book can offend someone / Jane Smiley -- Stock phrases for all occasions: the lessons of As I Lay Dying / Brian Fitch -- Censors "who like to watch" curricula: Jerzy Kosinski and the banning of Being There / Dave Wood -- Un-Beloved? / Marshall B. Toman -- Censorship and Bless Me, Ultima: a journey through fear to understanding / Linda Varvel -- Protecting them from what? In praise of Blubber / Faith Sullivan -- The portrayal of sexuality in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye / Steven R. Luebke -- In defense of The Boy Who Lost His Face / Jeanne M. McGlinn -- Bridge to Terabithia: too good to miss / Karen Hirsch -- Stephen King's cases against child abuse: Carrie and The Shining / Susan M. Kelley -- Defending Ayla: two novels about being different / Mary Phillips Manke -- In defense of Crazy Lady / Carolyn Reeder -- Keep Cujo unleashed / John R. Woznicki -- Examining the power of Courses, Hexes & Spells / Nicholas R. Karolides -- Defending children's schooltime reading: Daddy's Roommate and Heather's Mommies / Patrick Finnessy -- A defense of A Day No Pigs Would Die / Jim Mulvey -- The Drowning of Stephan Jones by Bette Greene / Carolyn Meyer -- The invisible adolescent: Robert Cormier's Fade / Joyce Sweeney -- Defending Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers: framing--not taming--controversy / Beth Murray -- Lois Lowry's The Giver / Avi -- Goosebumps by R.L. Stine / Sandra Soares and Julia Tiede -- In defense of Gilly / Connie Russell -- Things fade and alternatives exclude: truth and myth in John Gardner's Grendel / Lynda Durrant -- Communicating pleasure: Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam / Judith Volc -- Called to be a Handmaid: defending Margaret Atwood / Ruth Wood -- Defending Harry Potter / Elizabeth A. Poe -- The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder / Susan Koosmann -- In defense of Cupid / Zilpha Keatley Snyder -- Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits / Cecilia Bustamante-Marré -- Rationale for How to Eat Fried Worms / Lisa A. Spiegel -- Journey to understanding: defending I Am the Cheese / Kristine M. Bjerk -- In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: censorship and the FBI-AIM wars of the 1970s / Maggi Kramm -- Sexual development: letting kids know It's Perfectly Normal / Nancy Bayne -- Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach / Bill Brittain -- Julie-Miyax: the emergence of dual identity in Julie of the Wolves and Julie / Anne Sherrill -- Kaffir Boy: a rationale / Deborah Brown -- In defense of Killing Mr. Griffin / Susanne L. Johnston -- Harry Mazer's The Last Mission, and more / Ken Donelson -- Afraid of the dark: censorship, Ray Bradbury, and The Martian Chronicles / Michael Angelotti -- My Brother Sam Is Dead: embracing the contradictions and uncertainties of life and war / Kathy G. Short -- Censored: an author's perspective / Christopher Collier -- Literature, history, and social value: in defense of Native Son / Nellie Y. McKay and Dave Junker -- Sweet dreams: in support of Nightmares / Margaret Yatsevitch Phinney -- The pigman's story: teaching Paul Zindel in the 21st century / Grant T. Smith -- Keeping their parents happy: Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes / David Furniss -- Running with, not from, Running Loose / Chris Crowe -- Conquering our fears: Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories series / Caroline G. Majak -- Will McBride's Show Me! / Marc Talbert -- Not so loathsome after all: in defense of Hastings and Wijngaard's Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady / Scot Smith -- Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon: an African American epic / Suzanne Elizabeth Reid -- Clorox the dishes and hide the books: a defense of Snow Falling on Cedars / Jenny Brantley -- Defending The Stupids / Gaile Munde -- Bette Greene's Summer of My German Soldier: the war within the human heart / Rosalie Benoit Weaver -- Judy Blume's Tiger Eyes: a perspective on fear and death / Charles R. Duke -- Sex, swearing, and sacrilege: a rationale for Vision Quest / Wendy J. Glenn -- The avenger strikes again: We All Fall Down / John S. Simmons -- Understanding sexuality education: two books by Lynda Madaras / Faye J. Perkins -- The subversive quality of respect: in defense of The Witches / Amanda Bergson-Shilcock -- Breaking the rules: a defense of A Wrinkle in Time / Susannah Sheffer -- Yellow Raft in Blue Water / Minfong Ho.
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