I miss reading Goosebumps! They were so much fun to be ead!

Okay, with most of the reasons makes no sense. But the two that ignores common sense is Blubber and Where's Waldo (Wally.) With Blubber, “the villain is never punished for her cruelty.” I hate to say it, but the real world is not a book or movie (unless it's a non fiction book and a documentary,) and sometime bullies get away with it (not all the time, just sometimes.) And Where's Wally, kids aren't looking for boobies, they're looking for wally or Waldo, or whatever the hell his name is.

Twilight is offensive because it's bad literature. It's the bimbo of books

Where's Waldo “Tanning female with partially exposed breast on the beach” Seriously? That's the selling point for most commercials & Jersey Shore

I'm sorry if I missed something…but what the hell is “Where's Wally?”  Is this some kind of cheap, second-world knockoff of “Where's WALDO?”

I found the title “Banned Books” to be SO misleading as a kid, I had the idea that the US government didn't want ANYONE reading those books at one point and I lived in a time that just recovered from a Fahrenheit 911-esque society.
Why don't we call miniskirts and tube tops banned clothes?!

I recently read the Hunger Games books and was honestly shocked it was listed as Young Adult fiction. Fantastic book but I can see a whole lot of kids not prepared for the content.  Then again, having a piece of literature open up new topics and ideas seems way better than putting sheltered adults out into the “real world” or worse yet, having to experience bad things first hand.

My bookstore has the Twilight books in the childrens' section. A teenage fiction section exists, but it's right smack in the middle of childrens' lit. I'm no prude, and I think children should absolutely be sexually educated and encouraged to learn about it… but really? Twilight? For kids younger than teenagers?  Next to pat the bunny?

Other than the Twilight series, which is literary trash, I am going to go out and buy the three of these that I don't already own just to be sure that my kid has them available for reading.

Hang on, when id it become okay to ban a book for being anti-Christianity? And for promoting secular humanism? This is wrong and unconstitutional on so many levels.

Where the hell is “Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark”? It's the most challenged series of books in the past 3 decades and also fucking amazing. Every kid who didn't have a miserable childhood read them.

Harry Potter… no overall moral arc? they haven't read very far into the series have they :/

I've read 70% of these and there ain't nothin' wrong with me!

pointless to ban a book if they can just order it on amazon…

my 3rd grade teacher bought me “Bridge to Tarabitha” what about the new Diary of a Whimpy kid …..lol…u going take that off too!

Wait, there are Communist themes in James and the Giant Peach? The only thing I really remember from it is how me and my friends giggled over the grasshopper calling someone an ass.

despite this article, many of these books weren't “banned” but “challenged”. when someone has a problem with a book, they fill out a complaint, it then goes to the board and they look at the library's collection development policy. this document tells board how to act when this kind of situation arises. for the most part, they look at the book and basically try to justify it being in the collection. most books do not get banned because they have a legitimate reason for being in the collection. (but some DO get banned, thanks bible belt) speaking of which, the bible has been challenged! (ya, i went to library school (MSLS)

Banning books should be banned. It's a violation of the constitution. yes, even for twilight.  I actually like this Twilight craze. I think it's sort of ridiculous, but I like knowing that as a culture there's still things that teenaged girls will scream uncontrollably at.

The books are not banned as per se, they are banned from the libraries that are members of the ALA.

Oh c'mon… Are you for real? Today, kids just know everything just like adult. So why bother?