1986 in Medicine Bow, Wyoming, Senior High School because of sexual references and profanity. In 1987, parents andthe local Knights of Columbus chapter in Napoleon, North Dakota, complained about profanity and sexual references in the book, which wasbanned from a required sophomore English reading list. Parents of students attending Linton-Stockton (Indiana) High School challenged thebook in 1988 because it "undermines morality," and profanity was the reason for which the book was banned from classrooms in the Boron,California, high school in 1989.' 'The challenges to the novel have continued well into the 1990s. In 1991, the novel was challenged at Grayslake (Illinois) Community HighSchool for profanity, and students in Jamaica High School in Sidell, Illinois, cited profanities and the depiction of premarital sex, alcohol abuseand prostitution as the basis for their 1992 challenge. Three other major challenges to the novel occurred in 1992. The novel was challenged andremoved from the Waterloo, Iowa, public schools and the Duval County, Florida, public school libraries because of the "lurid passages aboutsex" and profanity, while a parent in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, objected to the book because it was "immoral" and contained profanity. In 1993,parents in the Corona-Norco (California) School District protested the use of the novel as a required reading, because it was "centered aroundnegative activity." The school board voted to retain the novel but instructed teachers to select alternative readings if students objected to it.The novel was challenged but retained for use in select English classes at New Richmond (Wisconsin) High School in 1994, but it was removedas mandatory reading from the Goffstown, New Hampshire, schools the same year because parents charged that it contained "vulgar words"and presented the main character's "sexual exploits."'...
