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The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Through a series of diary entries and letters, the novel portrays the lives of black women in the South during the 1930s.

This is a work of realistic fiction that is written for ages 16+. It would be most appropriate for high school seniors.

The book has often been banned for being sexually explicit and violent.

General public opinion has been mixed, as The Color Purple won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, but has been banned as recently as 2009 in reported incidents and probably in many unreported incidents.

Teigen, N. (2005). “The color purple” causes controversy. //WTOC.// Retrieved from [] on June 18th, 2012.

__The Color Purple __ by Alice Walker. The book is fiction and is questionable due to the sexual content, racism, offensive language, homosexuality, and again rape. The book is rated to be taught at high school grade level. A lot of parents protested the teaching of it at Spring Creek

High School, they were a part of a religious group. However, the book is on the Elko County Reading List.