While looking at the list of the top 100 most frequently challenged books, I was honestly surprised that I had heard of and read so many of them. 30 books to be exact. A few examples being The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer both by Mark Twain, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Harry Potter (series) by J. K. Rowling, and Cujo by Stephen King. Personally, I find it wonderful that my school allows its students to read these books freely and teachers about them in the classroom. I don't think books should be allowed to be banned at all. If you don't like the subject matter of a book or some of the language it contains then you shouldd just not read it. What someone shouldn't be able to do is ban others from reading it because maybe the subject doesn't bother them as much. Schools shouldn't ban books, but rather just not teach the ones they're uncomfortable with. These books should still be offered to read in the library at the readers discretion.
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