Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 1. Banned by Neglect: Tom Sawyer, Teaching the Conflicts
Chapter 4 2. Growing up with the Alice Series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Chapter 5 3. Facing Intolerance: All-American Boys by Frank Mosca
Chapter 6 4. Always Running from the Real Issues: Why Kids Should Read about Gangs and Drugs
Chapter 7 5. The Amazing Bone: Any Book Can Offend Someone
Chapter 8 6. Stock Phrases for All Occasions: The Lessons of As I Lay Dying
Chapter 9 7. Censors "Who Like to Watch" Curricula: Jerzy Kosinski and the Banning of Being There
Chapter 10 8. Un-Beloved?
Chapter 11 9. Censorship and Bless Me, Ultima: A Journey through Fear to Understanding
Chapter 12 10. Protecting Them from What? In Praise of Blubber
Chapter 13 11. The Portrayal of Sexuality in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye
Chapter 14 12. In Defense of The Boy Who Lost His Face
Chapter 15 13. Bridge to Terabithia Too Good to Miss
Chapter 16 14. Stephen King's Cases against Child Abuse: Carrie and The Shining
Chapter 17 15. Defending Ayla: Two Novels about Being Different
Chapter 18 16. In Defense of Crazy Lady
Chapter 19 17. Keep Cujo Unleashed
Chapter 20 18. Examining the Power of Curses, Hexes, & Spells
Chapter 21 19. Defending Children's Schooltime Reading: Daddy's Roommate and Heather's Mommies
Chapter 22 20. A Defense of A Day No Pigs Would Die
Chapter 23 21. The Drowning of Stephan Jones by Bette Greene
Chapter 24 22. The Invisible Adolescent: Robert Cormier's Fade
Chapter 25 23. Defending Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers: Framing-Not Taming-Controversy
Chapter 26 24. Lois Lowry's The Giver
Chapter 27 25. Goosebumps by R.L. Stine
Chapter 28 26. In Defense of Gilly
Chapter 29 27. Things Fade and Alternatives Exclude: Truth and Myth in John Gardner's Grendel
Chapter 30 28. Communicating Pleasure: Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
Chapter 31 29. Called to Be a Handmaid: Defending Margaret Atwood
Chapter 32 30. Defending Harry Potter
Chapter 33 31. The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Chapter 34 32. In Defense of Cupid
Chapter 35 33. Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits
Chapter 36 34. Rationale for How to Eat Fried Worms
Chapter 37 35. Journey to Understanding: Defending I Am the Cheese
Chapter 38 36. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: Censorship and the FBI-AIM Wars of the 1970s
Chapter 39 37. Sexual Development: Letting Kids Know It's Perfectly Normal
Chapter 40 38. Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach
Chapter 41 39. Julie-Miyax: The Emergence of Dual Identity in Julie of the Wolves and Julie
Chapter 42 40. Kaffir Boy: A Rationale
Chapter 43 41. In Defense of Killing Mr. Griffin
Chapter 44 42. Harry Mazer's The Last Mission, and More
Chapter 45 43. Afraid of the Dark: Censorship, Ray Bradbury, and The Martian Chronicles
Chapter 46 44. My Brother Sam Is Dead: Embracing the Contradictions and Uncertainties of Life and War
Chapter 47 45. Censored: An Author's Perspective
Chapter 48 46. Literature, History, and Social Value: In Defense of Native Son
Chapter 49 47. Sweet Dreams: In Support of Nightmares
Chapter 50 48. The Pigman's Story: Teaching Paul Zindel in the 21st Century
Chapter 51 49. Keeping Their Parents Happy: Roald Dahl's Revolving Rhymes
Chapter 52 50. Running with, Not from, Running Loose
Chapter 53 51. Conquering Our Fears: Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories Series
Chapter 54 52. Will McBride's Show Me!
Chapter 55 53. Not So Loathsome After All: In Defense of Hastings and Wijngaard's Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady
Chapter 56 54. Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon: An African American Epic
Chapter 57 55. Clorox Dishes and Hide the Books: A Defense of Snow Falling on Cedars
Chapter 58 56. Defending The Stupids
Chapter 59 57. Bette Greene's Summer of My German Soldier: The War within the Human Heart
Chapter 60 58. Judy Blume's Tiger Eyes: A Perspective on Fear and Death
Chapter 61 59. Sex, Swearing, and Sacrilege: A Rationale for Vision Quest
Chapter 62 60. The Avenger Strikes Again: We All Fall Down
Chapter 63 61. Understanding Sexuality Education: Two Books by Lynda Madaras
Chapter 64 62. The Subversive Quality of Respect: In Defense of The Witches
Chapter 65 63. Breaking the Rules: A Defense of A Wrinkle in Time
Chapter 66 64. Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Chapter 67 Index of Authors and Titles
Chapter 68 About the Contributors