Contents

• Foreword / Nat Hentoff
• Introduction / Nicholas J. Karolides
• 1. Banned by Neglect: Tom Sawyer, Teaching the Conflicts / Tim Hirsch
• 2. Growing up with the Alice Series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor / Katherine T. Buchner and M. Lee Manning
• 3. Facing Intolerance: All-American Boys by Frank Mosca / Sharon M. Scapple
• 4. Always Running from the Real Issues: Why Kids Should Read about Gangs and Drugs / Peter E. Morgan
• 5. The Amazing Bone: Any Book Can Offend Someone / Jane Smiley
• 6. Stock Phrases for All Occasions: The Lessons of As I Lay Dying / Brian Fitch
• 7. Censors "Who Like to Watch" Curricula: Jerzy Kosinski and the Banning of Being There / Dave Wood
• 8. Un-Beloved? / Marshall B. Toman
• 9. Censorship and Bless Me, Ultima: A Journey through Fear to Understanding / Linda Varvel
• 10. Protecting Them from What? In Praise of Blubber / Faith Sullivan
• 11. The Portrayal of Sexuality in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye / Steven R. Luebke
• 12. In Defense of The Boy Who Lost His Face / Jeanne M. McGlinn
• 13. Bridge to Terabithia Too Good to Miss / Karen Hirsch
• 14. Stephen King’s Cases against Child Abuse: Carrie and The Shining / Susan M. Kelley
• 15. Defending Ayla: Two Novels about Being Different / Mary Phillips Manke
• 16. In Defense of Crazy Lady / Carolyn Reeder
• 17. Keep Cujo Unleashed / John R. Woznicki
• 18. Examining the Power of Courses, Hexes & Spells / Nicholas R. Karolides
• 19. Defending Children’s Schooltime Reading: Daddy’s Roommate and Heather’s Mommies / Patrick Finnessy
• 20. A Defense of A Day No Pigs Would Die / Jim Mulvey
• 21. The Drowning of Stephan Jones by Bette Greene / Carolyn Meyer
• 22. The Invisible Adolescent: Robert Cormier’s Fade / Joyce Sweeney
• 23. Defending Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers: Framing - Not Taming - Controversy / Beth Murray
• 24. Lois Lowry’s The Giver / Avi
• 25. Goosebumps by R. L. Stine / Sandra Soares and Julia Tiede
• 26. In Defense of Gilly / Connie Russell
• 27. Things Fade and Alternatives Exclude: Truth and Myth in John Gardner’s Grendel / Lynda Durrant
• 28. Communicating Pleasure: Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam / Judith Volc
• 29. Called to Be a Handmaid: Defending Margaret Atwood / Ruth Wood
• 30. Defending Harry Potter / Elizabeth A. Poe
• 31. The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder / Susan Koosmann
• 32. In Defense of Cupid / Zilpha Keatley Snyder
• 33. Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits / Cecilia Bustamante-Marre
• 34. Rationale for How to Eat Fried Worms / Lisa A. Spiegel
• 35. Journey to Understanding: Defending I Am the Cheese / Kristine M. Bjerk
• 36. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: Censorship and the FBI-AIM Wars of the 1970s / Maggi Kramm
• 37. Sexual Development: Letting Kids Know It’s Perfectly Normal / Nancy Bayne
• 38. Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach / Bill Brittain
• 39. Julie-Miyax: The Emergence of Dual Identity in Julie of the Wolves and Julie / Anne Sherrill
• 40. Kaffir Boy: A Rationale / Deborah Brown
• 41. In Defense of Killing Mr. Griffin / Susanne L. Johnston
• 42. Harry Mazer’s The Last Mission, and More / Ken Donelson
• 43. Afraid of the Dark: Censorship, Ray Bradbury, and The Martian Chronicles / Michael Angelotti
• 44. My Brother Sam Is Dead: Embracing the Contradictions and Uncertainties of Life and War / Kathy G. Short
• 45. Censored: An Author’s Perspective / Christopher Collier
• 46. Literature, History, and Social Value: In Defense of Native Son / Nellie Y. McKay and Dave Junker
• 47. Sweet Dreams: In Support of Nightmares / Margaret Yatsevitch Phinney
• 48. The Pigman’s Story: Teaching Paul Zindel in the 21st Century / Grant T. Smith
• 49. Keeping Their Parents Happy: Roald Dahl’s Revolving Rhymes / David Furniss
• 50. Running with, Not from, Running Loose / Chris Crowe
• 51. Conquering Our Fears: Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories Series / Caroline G. Majak
• 52. Will McBride’s Show Me! / Marc Talbert
• 53. Not So Loathsome After All: In Defense of Hastings and Wijngaard’s Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady / Scot Smith - - 54. Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon: An African American Epic / Suzanne Elizabeth Reid
• 55. Clorox Dishes and Hide the Books: A Defense of Snow Falling on Cedars / Jenny Brantley
• 56. Defending The Stupids / Gaile Munde
• 57. Bette Greene’s Summer of My German Soldier: The War within the Human Heart / Rosalie Benoit Weaver
• 58. Judy Blume’s Tiger Eyes: A Perspective on Fear and Death / Charles R. Duke
• 59. Sex, Swearing, and Sacrilege: A Rationale for Vision Quest / Wendy J. Glenn
• 60. The Avenger Strikes Again; We All Fall Down / John S. Simmons
• 61. Understanding Sexuality Education: Two Books by Lynda Madaras / Faye J. Perkins
• 62. The Subversive Quality of Respect: In Defense of The Witches / Amanda Bergson-Shilcock
• 63. Breaking the Rules: A Defense of A Wrinkle in Time / Susannah Sheffer
• 64. Yellow Raft in Blue Water / Minfong Ho