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It's national Banned Books Week from September 20th to the 27th, and inquiring minds want to know - what kind of reader are you? Not sure?
Take the Banned Book Quiz to find out. Below is a list of 20 of the Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000. Check the box next to every book you've read to find out if you're a rebellious reader.
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl Native Son by Richard Wright Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle The Pigman by Paul Zindel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley The Dead Zone by Stephen King A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Where's Waldo? by Martin Hanford Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett Lord of the Flies by William Golding
What Kind of Reader Are You? How many books did you check off above?
18 - 20: Totally Banned Bookworm
14 - 17: I'll Take Mine in a Plain Brown Wrapper
9 - 13: Brave New Reader
5 - 8: A Little Forbidden Reading Never Hurt Anybody
