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S-Collection Home<\/a>\u00a0 > Find Children’s Books <\/a> > Additional Sources<\/a> > Challenged Children’s Books<\/a> > Challenged Chapter Books<\/p>\n

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This list contains chapter books that have been challenged.\u00a0 It is not a comprehensive list; please refer to sources such as NCTE\u2019s Intellectual Freedom Center<\/a> or ALA\u2019s Banned & Challenged Books<\/a> for more information.\u00a0 The main page of this guide also includes resources for further research.<\/p>\n

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The Adventures of Captain Underpants<\/em> (series) \u2013- Dav Pilkey, 1997-2015<\/strong>
\nThe series revolves around two fourth-graders, George Beard and Harold Hutchins, and Captain Underpants, a superhero from the boys\u2019 homemade comic books, who accidentally comes to life when George and Harold hypnotize their ill-tempered principal, Mr. Krupp.<\/p>\n

Among the Hidden<\/em><\/strong> — Margaret Peterson Haddix, 1998<\/strong>
\nA government decree allows each family only two children. For Luke, a third child, this has meant a lifetime of hiding. But could a stray glimpse of a child hiding in the house across the way lead to freedom?<\/p>\n

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret<\/em><\/strong> — Judy Blume, 1970<\/strong>
\nFaced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, an eleven-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.<\/p>\n

Ban this Book<\/em> \u2014 Alan Gratz, 2017<\/strong>
\nAmy Anne runs a secret library in the basement of her school after her favorite book was banned.<\/p>\n

The Breakaways<\/em> \u2014 Cathy G. Johnson, 2019<\/strong>
\nFollows the players on a soccer team as they grow up, learn more about themselves, and deal with school, sleepovers, and shifting friendships.<\/p>\n

Bridge to Terabithia<\/em><\/strong> — Katherine Paterson, 1977<\/strong>
\nTen-year-old Jesse Aarons, who has lived all his life on a farm in Virginia, becomes friends with Leslie Burke, a “city girl” who has moved into a farmhouse down the road and opens doors to culture and imaginative play. But then tragedy strikes.<\/p>\n

Drama —<\/em><\/strong> Raina Telgemeier, \u00a02012
\n<\/strong>Callie rides an emotional roller coaster while serving on the stage crew for a middle school production of Moon over Mississippi as various relations start and end, and others never quite get going.<\/p>\n

Front Desk <\/em>\u2014 Kelly Yang, 2018<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s the 90s, and Mia, a recent immigrant to the US from China, navigates starting a new school and working at the front desk of her parent\u2019s motel.<\/p>\n

The Giver<\/em><\/strong> — Lois Lowry, 1993<\/strong>
\nGiven his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.<\/p>\n

Goosebumps (series)<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0— R.L.Stine, 1992-\u00a0<\/strong>
\nScary stories with mild gore.<\/p>\n

Harry Potter (series)<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0— J.K. Rowling, 1997-2007\u00a0<\/strong>
\nNot your average school, the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is where Harry Potter finds himself in and out of trouble with his friends as well as in and out of danger from darker powers.<\/p>\n

It’s Perfectly Normal: a Book about Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health<\/em><\/strong>— Robie Harris, 1994\u00a0<\/strong>
\nIntroduces human sexuality, describes the changes brought about by puberty, and discusses sexual abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS, and pregnancy.<\/p>\n

James and the Giant Peach<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0— Roald Dahl<\/strong>, 1961<\/strong>
\nA contemporary fairy tale starring the heroic little James, a group of overgrown garden insects who become his friends, and a peach the size of a house.<\/p>\n

Little House on the Prairie<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0— Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1935\u00a0<\/strong>
\nA family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.<\/p>\n

Melissa —<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Alex Gino, 2015
\n<\/strong>Knowing herself to be a girl despite her outwardly male appearance, George is denied a female role in the class play before teaming up with a friend to reveal her true self.<\/p>\n

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark<\/em> \u2014 Alvin Schwartz, 1981<\/strong>
\nA collection of scary short stories for children.<\/p>\n

Skeleton Man<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 — Joseph Bruchac, 2001\u00a0<\/strong>
\nAfter her parents disappear and she is turned over to the care of a strange “great-uncle,” Molly must rely on her dreams about an old Mohawk story for her safety and maybe even for her life.<\/p>\n

The View from Saturday<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0— E.L. Konigsburg, 1996\u00a0<\/strong>
\nFour students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.<\/p>\n

When Stars are Scattered<\/em> \u2014 Victoria Jamieson, 2020<\/strong>
\nAn autobiographical memoir about Omar and Hassan, two Somali refugees at a camp in Kenya.<\/p>\n

The Witch of Blackbird Pond<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0— Elizabeth George Speare, 1958\u00a0<\/strong>
\nA young woman brought up in Barbados comes to live with her uncle in Connecticut, and finds their Puritan way of life difficult after her unconventional upbringing.<\/p>\n

The Witches<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0— Roald Dahl, 1983\u00a0<\/strong>
\nA young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches’ plot to destroy the world’s children by turning them into mice.<\/p>\n

Wringer<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0— Jerry Spinelli, 1996\u00a0<\/strong>
\nAs Palmer comes of age he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his Pennsylvania town’s annual Pigeon day or find the courage to oppose it.<\/p>\n

A Wrinkle in Time<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0— Madeleine L’Engle, 1962\u00a0<\/strong>
\nMeg and Charles Wallace set out with their friend Calvin in a search for their father. His top secret job as a physicist for the government has taken him away and the children search through time and space to find him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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