Alexie, Pilkey books among most ‘challenged’ of past decade

NEW YORK (AP) — Toni Morrison is on the list. So are John Green and Harper Lee. And John Steinbeck and Margaret Atwood. All wrote books that were among the 100 most subjected to censorship efforts over the past decade, as compiled by the American Library Association. Sherman Alexie’s prize-winning “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” came in at No. 1,  followed by Dav Pilkey’s “Captain Underpants” picture book series and Jay Asher’s young adult novel “Thirteen Reasons Why.” Objections raised by community members have ranged from explicit language and depictions of drug use in Alexie’s novel to Asher’s theme of suicide.