instances of book challenges in 1994 and forty-two percent of the complainants were successful in having the offending books banned (ALA).
Some of the books that have been the most frequently banned in 1990's are: Of Mice and Men, The Catcher in the Rye, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Blubber, A Day No Pigs Would Die, Little Red Riding Hood, James and the Giant Peach, The Grapes of Wrath, Black Beauty, and Lord of the Flies. Most of these books are award-winning classics but due to censorship some people may never get the chance to read them. Black Beauty has been removed from shelves because it depicts cruelty to animals. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been banned because it contains the word "nigger". "Even to the present day, we so often condemn books that were written to fight the very things we claim to be fighting. Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn is so often cited as
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