‘The Kite Runner’ among most-challenged books of 2008
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini's bestseller about a friendship and betrayal between two Afghan boys, is among the most-challenged books of 2008, according to the American Library Association.
For a third consecutive year, Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell's award-winning And Tango Makes Three, a children's book about two male penguins caring for an orphaned egg, tops the American Library Association's (ALA) Top Ten list of the Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2008.
Also in the Top Ten were His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman and the Gossip Girl Series by Cecily von Ziegesar.
The association, which annually issues a list of the most-challenged books, recorded 513 complaints about books in the past year, an increase of 93 from 2007, but well below the levels of 700 and higher in the 1990s.
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