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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Gone With the Wind, Fahrenheit 451, James and the Giant Peach, and To Kill a Mockingbird have been banned by schools for being socially offensive.

Jaws was banned by a school for having too much sexual contact.

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? was banned by the Texas Board of Education in 2010, because its author, Bill Martin, Jr. was a marxist; problem is, Bill Martin, Jr., the marxist author, isn't Bill Martin, Jr., the children's book author.

Charlotte's Web was banned in a school district in Kansas because two talking animals must be the work of the devil.

Merrimack, NH, schools, pulled Twelfth Night, by Bill Shakespeare. Girl washes ashore after a shipwreck, disguises herself as a page, and falls in love with her male master. Cross-dressing, faux same-sex romance violated school district's "prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction."

Most recently, in Meridian, Idaho, when the school district banned "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian," students complained, and the publisher sent 350 free copies to be distributed to students. When students tried to distribute them for free in a city park, one of the 'ban the book' fathers called the police.

“”The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,””

I read on another thread that Elizabeth Warren was writing a book. Now it seems she’s already written it.

I’m so confused!