[caption id="attachment_1222" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Read Banned Books! Artwork courtesy of the American Library Association[/caption]

It's time to Celebrate Your Freedom to READ!!!

According to the Office for Intellectual Freedom, there were 307 challenges to books reported in 2013. Here are the top 10:

1. Captain Underpants (series), by Dav PilkeyReasons: Offensive language, unsuited for age group, violence
2. The Bluest Eye, by Toni MorrisonReasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, violence
3. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman AlexieReasons: Drugs/alcohol/smoking, offensive language, racism, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group
4. Fifty Shades of Grey, by E.L. JamesReasons: Nudity, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group
5. The Hunger Games, by Suzanne CollinsReasons: Religious viewpoint, unsuited to age group
6. A Bad Boy Can Be Good for A Girl, by Tanya Lee StoneReasons: Drugs/alcohol/smoking, nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit
7. Looking for Alaska, by John GreenReasons: Drugs/alcohol/smoking, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group
8. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen ChboskyReasons: drugs/alcohol/smoking, homosexuality, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group
9. Bless Me Ultima, by Rudolfo AnayaReasons: Occult/Satanism, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit
10. Bone (series), by Jeff SmithReasons: Political viewpoint, racism, violence