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The list included such classics as Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" ("insensitivity, nudity, racism, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit") and Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" ("offensive language, racism"). Also cited were Sherman Alexie's "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" ("offensive language, racism, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group"), Cecily von Ziegesar's "Gossip Girl" series ("drugs, offensive language, sexually explicit") and Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's "Alice" series (nudity, offensive language, religious viewpoint").
Others mentioned were Sonya Sones' "What My Mother Doesn't Know" ("nudity; offensive language; sexually explicit") and "My Mom's Having A Baby! A Kid's Month-by-Month Guide to Pregnancy," by Dori Hillestad Butler ("nudity, sex education, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group").
The biggest surprise was the absence of "And Tango Makes Three," the picture story by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell about two male penguins who raise a baby penguin. "Tango" had topped the list four out of the five previous years.
"I'd like to think people are getting more tolerant of the theme of homosexuality," Jones said. "But maybe other books are just getting more attention. Young adult novels are the big thing right now and we're getting a lot more feedback about them."
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