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Featuring 24 "hot button" books, Hit List for Children 2 presents a who's who of children's literature writers. With a profile of each book that includes its plot, characters, published reviews, awards and prizes, and author resources, you will be prepared to answer even the toughest attacks.

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• Acknowledgments(p. vii)
• Preface(p. ix)
• The Stupids(p. 1)
• Blubber(p. 3)
• Mommy Laid an Egg! or, Where Do Babies Come From?(p. 6)
• The Goats(p. 7)
• My Brother Sam Is Dead(p. 10)
• James and the Giant Peach(p. 13)
• The Witches(p. 15)
• Guess What?(p. 17)
• Julie of the Wolves(p. 19)
• It's Perfectly Normal(p. 21)
• A Wrinkle in Time(p. 23)
• The Giver(p. 26)
• Anastasia Krupnik(p. 28)
• Anastasia at Your Service(p. 28)
• The Agony of Alice(p. 31)
• Alice in Rapture, Sort Of(p. 31)
• Reluctantly Alice(p. 31)
• All But Alice(p. 31)
• Alice in April(p. 31)
• Alice In-Between(p. 31)
• Alice the Brave(p. 31)
• Alice in Lace(p. 31)
• Outrageously Alice(p. 31)
• Achingly Alice(p. 31)
• Alice on the Outside(p. 31)
• The Grooming of Alice(p. 31)
• Alice Alone(p. 31)
• Heather Has Two Mommies(p. 36)
• Bridge to Terabithia(p. 38)
• The Great Gilly Hopkins(p. 41)
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone(p. 44)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets(p. 44)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban(p. 44)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire(p. 44)
• The Boy Who Lost His Face(p. 47)
• Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark(p. 49)
• More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark(p. 49)
• Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones(p. 49)
• In the Night Kitchen(p. 52)
• A Light in the Attic(p. 54)
• Goosebumps(p. 57)
• Daddy's Roommate(p. 59)
• Appendix What ALA Can Do to Help Librarians Combat Censorship(p. 63)

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School Library Journal Review

In the past 10 years, the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom has had reports of more than 6700 attempts to ban or restrict access to library and curricular materials throughout the nation. Judy Blume's Blubber, Brock Cole's The Goats, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's "Alice" series, Lois Lowry's The Giver, and J. K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" books are among the 24 books featured in the first book. Among the 20 books featured in the second title are Marion Dane Bauer's Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence, Nancy Garden's Annie on My Mind, Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War, and Paul Zindel's The Pigman. Each entry includes a lengthy annotation; a discussion of some of the challenges to the title; relevant articles, awards and prizes; references to biographical information about the author; and sources recommending the novel. These slim books provide the necessary information to help teachers and librarians deal with censorship cases. The authors also make the point that the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom is available to assist with challenges to materials, and the specific services they offer is discussed in the appendixes.-Pat Scales, South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities, Greenville (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.