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Banned Books Week: Banned or Challenged Titles at Leeward CC Library!

Celebrate your freedom to READ!

Banned or Challenged Books at Leeward CC Library!

Did you know we have quite a few books at Leeward CC Library that have been banned or challenged?

TITLE AUTHOR LOCATION EBOOK LINK
1984 George Orwell ESL Collection ESL 416
& General Collection PR6029.R8 N647 2003		 OverDrive Link 
Black boy Richard Wright General Collection PS3545.R815 Z5 1966  
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury General Collection PZ3.B72453 Fah5 1994  
Fear: Trump in the White House Bob Woodward General Collection E913.3 .W66 2018  
Monster Walter Dean Myers General Collection PZ7 .M992 1999  
Persepolis Marjane Satrapi General Collection PN6747.S245 P4713 2003  
Stamped : racism, antiracism, and you Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds Best Sellers Collection E184.A1 R48 2020  
The autobiography of Malcolm X Alex Haley General Collection E185.97.L5 A3 1999  
The call of the wild Jack London General Collection PS3523.O46 C5 2005 EBSCOhost link
The grapes of wrath John Steinbeck General Collection PS3537.T3234 G8 2002  
The hate U give Angie Thomas General Collection PZ7.1.T448 Hat 2018  
The jungle Upton Sinclair General Collection PS3537.I85 J8 1946 Ebook Central Link 
The kite runner Khaled Hosseini General Collection PS3608.O525 K58 2003  
The new Jim Crow Alexander Michelle OverDrive eBook OverDrive Link
Things fall apart Chinua Achebe General Collection PR9387.9.A3 T5 1983  

TITLE AUTHOR LOCATION EBOOK LINK
Fight club Chuck Palahniuk General Collection PS3566.A4554 F54 2005  
Grendel John Gardner General Collection PZ4.G23117 Gr  
In cold blood Truman Capote General Collection HV6533.K3 C3  
James and the giant peach Roald Dahl OverDrive eBook OverDrive Link 
One flew over the cuckoo's nest Ken Kesey General Collection PS3561.E667 O5 2003 OverDrive Link
The hunger games Suzanne Collins General Collection PZ7.C6837 Hun 2008  
The lord of the flies William Golding General Collection PR6013.O35 L6 2011  
The things they carried Tim O'Brien General Collection PS3565.B75 T48 2009 OverDrive Link

TITLE AUTHOR LOCATION EBOOK LINK
A time to kill John Grisham ESL Collection ESL 519  
Maus : a survivor's tale Art Spiegelman General Collection D810.J4 S643 2011  
Mein kampf Adolf Hitler General Collection DD247.H5 A322  
Of mice and men John Steinbeck General Collection PS3537.T3234 O2 2002  
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain ESL Collection ESL 315  
The adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain ESL Collection ESL 100  

TITLE AUTHOR LOCATION EBOOK LINK
A wrinkle in time Madeleine L'Engle General Collection PZ7.L5385 Wr 2012  
As I lay dying William Faulkner General Collection PZ3.F272 As3  
Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson General Collection PZ7.P273 Br 2017  
Charlotte's web E.B. White General Collection PZ7 .W584  
Harry Potter (all volumes) J. K. Rowling General Collection PZ7.R79835 Har 1999  
Holy Bible   General Collection BS191 .A1 1989  
Slaughterhouse-five Kurt Vonnegut General Collection PS3572.O5 S6 1985  
The handmaid's tale Margaret Atwood General Collection PR9199.3.A8 H3 2006 OverDrive Link
The lord of the rings J.R.R. Tolkien General Collection PZ3.T576 Lo6 OverDrive Link

TITLE AUTHOR LOCATION EBOOK LINK
A court of mist and fury Sarah J. Maas General Collection PZ7.M111575 Com 2016  
All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto George M. Johnson OverDrive Audiobook OverDrive Link
A child's life and other stories Phoebe Gloeckner General Collection PN6727.G65 C45 2000  
A separate peace John Knowles General Collection PS3561.N68 S4 1986  
All the bright places Jennifer Niven OverDrive eBook OverDrive Link 
An abundance of Katherines John Green OverDrive eBook OverDrive Link 
Anne Frank Anne Frank General Collection DS135.N6 F73313 2003
& Best Sellers Collection DS135.N6 F65 2018		  
Annie on my mind Nancy Garden OverDrive eBook OverDrive Link 
Beloved Toni Morrison General Collection PS3563.O8749 B4 1987  
Brave new world Aldous Huxley General Collection PR6015.U9 B7 1946  
Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson General Collection PZ7.P273 Br 2017  
Flamer Mike Curato Best Sellers Collection PN6727.C87 F53 2020  
Fun home Alison Bechdel General Collection PN6727.B3757 Z46 2007b  
Gender queer : a memoir Maia Kobabe General Collection HQ77.8.K625 A3 2022  
Go tell it on the mountain James Baldwin General Collection PZ4.B18 Go4  
Habibi Craig Thompson General Collection PN6727.T48 H33 2011  
I am the cheese Robert Cormier General Collection PZ7.C81634 Iac  
I know why the caged bird sings Maya Angelou General Collection PS3551.N464 Z466 2015  
Invisible man Ralph Ellison General Collection PS3555.L625 I5 1995  
Like water for chocolate Laura Esquivel General Collection PQ7298.15.S638 C6613 1995 OverDrive Link 
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov General Collection PS3527.A15 L6 1997  
Looking for Alaska John Green OverDrive eBook OverDrive Link 
Make something up : stories you can’t unread Chuck Palahniuk General Collection PS3566 .A4554 A6 2015  
My sister's keeper Jodi Picoult Ebook Central Ebook Central Link
Native son Richard Wright General Collection PS3545.R815 N25 2005  
Night Elie Wiesel General Collection DS135.R73 W54813 2006  
Norweigian wood Haruki Murakami General Collection PL856.U673 N6713 2000  
Ordinary people Judith Guest General Collection PZ4.G954 Or  
Out of darkness Ashley Hope Perez EBSCOhost eBook EBSCOhost Link
Paper towns John Green OverDrive eBook OverDrive Link
Snow falling on cedars David Guterson ESL Collection ESL 610
& General Collection PS3557.U846 S65 1994		  
Sons and lovers D.H. Lawrence ESL Collection ESL 514
& General Collection PR6023.A93 S68 2010		  
Speak Laurie Halse Anderson General Collection PZ7.A54385 Sp 2003
& OverDrive Audiobook		 OverDrive Link
The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian Alexie Sherman General Collection PS3551.L35774 A27 2009 OverDrive Link 
The bluest eye : a novel Toni Morrison General Collection PS3563.O8749 B55 2007  
The catcher in the rye JD Salinger General Collection PS3537.A426 C3 2001  
The chocolate war; a novel Robert Cormier General Collection PZ7.C81634 Ch  
The color purple Alice Walker General Collection PS3573.A425 C6 1982 OverDrive Link 
The great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald General Collection PS3511.I9 G7 2013  
The hate u give Angie Thomas General Collection PZ7.1.T448 Hat 2018  
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot General Collection RC265.6.L24 S55 2010 OverDrive Link 
The magic fish Le Nguyen Trung Best Sellers Collection PN6727.T78 M34 2020  
The namesake Jhumpa Lahiri General Collection PS3562.A316 N36 2003 OverDrive Link 
The sun also rises Ernest Hemingway General Collection PS3515.E37 S8 2006  
The things they carried Tim O'Brien General Collection PS3565.B75 T48 2009 OverDrive Link
Their eyes were watching God Zora Neale Hurston General Collection PS3515.U789 T639 1991  
Thirteen reasons why Jay Asher OverDrive eBook OverDrive Link 
To kill a mockingbird Harper Lee General Collection PS3562.E353 T6 2006  
ttyl Lauren Myracle EBSCOhost eBook EBSCOhost Link
Twilight Stephenie Meyer General Collection PZ7.M5717515 Tw 2005  
Women in Love D.H. Lawrence General Collection PZ3.L4345 Wo27  

Leeward CC Library's Challenged Book

While the books listed above have been banned or challenged elsewhere around the country, Leeward CC Library had its own experience with censorship after adding the graphic novel, A child's life and other stories, to the General Collection!  

A child's life and other stories book cover. Image is also linked to the book's item record in the library catalog.

A child's life and other stories 
by Phoebe Gloeckner

General Collection
PN6727.G65 C45 2000

  • In 2004, a library in Stockton, California banned A child's life and other stories. The mayor of Stockton claimed the graphic novel was a "how-to-book" for pedophiles.
  • When Leeward CC Library acquired A child's life and other stories in 2011, a patron complained it was "pornographic," "filled with profane language," contained “sexually explicit" photos, and it was not suitable for young children visiting the library. In response to the challenge, the head librarian said:
    • The book was "highly acclaimed for it's candor and artistic merit, and it fits in with the many resources the library collects regarding domestic violence."
    • Minors are not permitted in the library without adult supervision.
    • The children and young adult books in the library's collections support Leeward Community College's teacher education programs.
    • You must be currently enrolled or employed in the University of Hawaiʻi system to check out library materials. 


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