Reason for challenge: Homosexuality. Credit: Publishers
- Reason for challenge: Homosexuality.
- A few of the book titles that faced challenges in 2009.
- A Missouri university professor recently called Laurie Halse Anderson's YA novel, "Speak," about the date rape of a teen, pornography.
- The No. 1 challenged book in 2009.
- Reasons: Offensive Language, Sexually Explicit, Unsuited to Age Group
- Reasons: Nudity, Offensive Language, Sexually Explicit, Unsuited to Age Group
- Reasons: occupt/Satanism
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