Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

Censorship in the United States

Beginning in the 1970s, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. has been frequently challenged because of its frank talk about menstruation and its depiction of a child being allowed to decide for herself what religion she would prefer to adhere to.[2][4] The American Library Association's (ALA) list of the 100 most frequently challenged books of the 1990s ranked the book at number sixty.[14] The novel ranked 99 on ALA's list of the 100 most frequently challenged books of the 2000s.[15] The book dropped from the ALA list for 2010 through 2020.[16]


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