Adventure+of+Tom+Sawyer+and+also+Adventures+of+Huck+Finn

__The Adventures of Tom Sawyer __ by Mark Twain and __Adventures of Huck Finn__ by Mark Twain are both considered to be banned. They are both about two boys who get into mischief and live on the Mississippi River. The book is filled with adventure. The genre is fiction and the situation in the book that is questionable is the racist plot. However, both novels are on the reading recommended list by the Common Core Standards. Many people take offense to it due to the racial terms in the book. The history of the censorship has been just since the last few years, until than it is a classic. Both novels are considered to a middle school to yearly high school appropriate. However, the age appropriateness is high school aged children.

Gardner, J. (2009, September). Sqeals of protest. Retrieved from http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/09

Kelly, M. (2012). Censorship and book banning in america taking stock. Retrieved from http://712educators.about.com/cs/bannedbooks/a/bookbanning.htm