10 Most Challenged Books of 2010

	1. And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches. Reasons: homosexuality, religious viewpoint, and unsuited to age group.
	2. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Reasons: offensive language, racism, sex education, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, and violence.
	3. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley The story of a futuristic World State where all emotion, love, art and human individuality have been replaced by social stability. An ominous warning to the world's population. Reasons: insensitivity, offensive language, racism, and sexually explicit.
	4. Crank by Ellen Hopkins Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter, gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: Crank. And what begins as a wild ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul - her life. Reasons: drugs, offensive language, and sexually explicit.
	5. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. Reasons: sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, and violence.
	6. Lush by Natasha Friend It's hard to be a 13-year-old girl. But it's even harder when your father's a drunk. It adds an extra layer to everything – your family's reactions to things, the people you're willing to bring home, the way you see yourself and the world. For Samantha, it's something that's been going on for so long that she's almost used to it. Only, you never get used to it. Especially when it starts to get worse... Reasons: drugs, offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group.
	7. What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones Sophie's mother doesn't know about the boy who is pressing Sophie to go further than she wants. Or about the boy she chats with online who wants to meet her. And she certainly can't tell her mother about the homeliest guy in school who she wonders about. These sharp, funny, and tragic poems tell of Sophie's sometimes painful but always passionate journey of self-discovery. Reasons: sexism, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group.
	8. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich Author Barbara Ehrenreich decides to see if she can scratch out a comfortable living in blue-collar America. What she discovers is a culture of desperation, where workers often take multiple low-paying jobs just to keep a roof overhead. Reasons: drugs, inaccurate, offensive language, political viewpoint, and religious viewpoint.
	9. Revolutionary Voices edited by Amy Sonnie Celebrating the future of gay and lesbian society, Sonnie presents a collection of experiences, ideas, dreams, and fantasies expressed through prose, poetry, artwork, letters, diaries, and performance pieces. Reasons: homosexuality and sexually explicit.
	10. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human. Reasons: religious viewpoint and violence.

Source: American Library Association