Challenged!

Author Suzanne Collins' name has shown up on ALA's Most Frequently Challenged Authors of the 21st Century lists in 2010 and 2011. Evidently, The Hunger Games trilogy, first published in 2008, has struck a nerve.

Why have the books been challenged? 

• In New Hampshire, a parent asked the Goffstown School Board to remove the book from her daughter's class, claiming that it gave her 11-year-old nightmares and could numb other students to the effects of violence.  The parent made the request without having read the book herself.  The challenge was ultimately unsuccessful.  
• In 2011, The Hunger Games trilogy was #3 on the list of Top Ten Challenged Books by Year.  The reasons given were: anti-ethnic; anti-family; insensitivity; offensive language; occult/satanic; and violence.
• In 2010, The Hunger Games was #5 on the list of Top Ten Challenged Books by Year for these reasons: sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, and violence.

What do you think? Will we see more challenges in 2012?