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= Top ten most frequently challenged books of 2009 =

6. __//The// //Catcher in the Rye//__, by J.D. Salinger Reasons: offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group
==7. //My Sister’s Keeper,// by Jodi Picoult Reasons: homosexuality, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexism, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, violence 8. //The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things,// by Carolyn Mackler Reasons: offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group==

10. //The Chocolate War//, by Robert Cormier Reasons: nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group
= Why the catcher and the rye was banned? =

== __//The Catcher in the Rye//__ was banned for many reasons the top reasons was an infringement on the right to free expression. One of the main reasons this book was banned from school libraries was because of the sexual content, it is not explicit in nature but parents are opposed to the book being part of the curriculum for high school students. In the book Holden thinks, talks and worries about sex offend and also believes his friends are sexually active. The sexual content in the //__Catcher in the Rye__// is not any worse than what teenagers are seeing on television and in music videos. There are 224 instances were fowl language is used in the book. Just because some language is used in the book should not be a reason for the book to be banned because most of these words are used in today’s society. ==

= **This is a 18 year olds response to //__Catcher In The Rye__//.** = = **Crying and Laughing With Holden** = ==Asking a bunch of adults whether or not //__The Catcher in the Rye__// will really reach teenagers is pretty funny, if you ask me. This only helps prove Salinger’s point — adults were once young and disillusioned themselves, but they’ve grown out of it, and they assume the rest of the world has grown with them.== ==I’m 18 years old and every bit as confused and wandering as Holden. When I read this book for the first time, I laughed so hard I cried and cried so hard I could barely breathe. Yeah, my generation has Twitter and Facebook and cellphones and what-have-you. The world is always changing in little ways like that. It’s the big things that don’t change — and even in an era of such impossible interconnectedness, there is no way to circumvent the feeling of being utterly alone and misunderstood.== ==Plenty of teenagers still love //__The Catcher in the Rye__//. In fact, my Facebook feed was full of tributes to Salinger the day he died. If that doesn’t prove that this book has got appeal that spans generational differences, I don’t know what could.==