Top 10 Banned Books 2006 - Banned Books Week 2007

There's a book on the self-published shelves that's got the Vatican in a rage: In The Realm Of Madness by Patrick Lewis Strachan. I heard about it from a friend who was totally shocked by the novel, probably one of the most controversial novels ever written, and I can see why! I've a feeling that this book, a comedy/horror, could well become the most slammed book of the 21st century. Jesus as a vampire & hitman? The rape of the Virgin Mary by a paedophile priest? The book's a classic.

My mom and stepdad wanted to get Cliff Notes banned from students and have "mere possession" when enrolled as a student a "criminal offense"!
My mom even told my high school English teacher that I was "cheating" with Cliff Notes. The teacher asked "how so?" My mom's response: "because he [me] has a copy!" The teacher informed her that what cheating was and that I was not cheating and that she [teacher] herself had a copy and knows when students are "cheating". My mom was pissed!

Does banning books go against the First Amendment?

Perhaps a book can be "banned from the **curriculum"--ESPECIALLY for private school--for public school (curriculum)--and perhaps even prohibited from bringing to school (if it causes disruption; or illegal for age (e.g. even not allowing 18-year-old high school students to bring, say, pornography to their high school campus, since minors attend there)---but **anything** can be challenged, up to the Supreme Court, right?
So it would depend on the "type" and "extent" of the banning, right?

oh and another thing, why are teens treated like 3 year olds? seriously people! we use offensive language on a daily basis and we discuss sexual things and joke about it, some people my age are HAVING sex. come on! unsuited for age group? this is stupid. i hate people.
oh and what are our scary stories supposed to be? along the lines of casper the friendly ghost? jesus!

i LOVED those scary stories books! i read them over and over and over and over again! i loved them!
i think i still have them somewhere. i should find them, i haven't cracked them open in a while.
i don't see why books have to be banned. freedom of speech, where's it going? gah...

Take books out of schools - perhaps......if THEY ARE REALLY REALLY INAPPROPRIATE FOR A PARTICULAR AGE GROUP.

Banning books from libraries and bookstores was a favorite of Hitler, Stalin, and all others that want to eventually ban intellectualism!.

that scary stories book scared the crap out of me when I was little. I loved those books.

Haha! Yessss the Scary Stories Series! Those books scared the crap out of me when I was little (and still today) the illustrations in those books are honestly disturbing if you haven't seen check them out.....soooo macabre!

And how about that book "Sixth Grade Secrets" haha back in elementary school my friends would read that book, it was like "OMG GIRLS!!" to us.

not "perks of being a wallflower"!!! that's one of my all time favorite books! i think i would go into a morbid depression if it was banned from my library... and "scary stories"? really? i read that in the sixth grade. i don't think i'm going to turn to satanism or anything... "the earth my butt and other round things" isn't that offensive... it's real, is all. and it's a young adult novel! people should just lay off of teenagers for once. (same goes for "alice" and "gossip girl".)