Scary+Stories+(series)

1) Scary stories (series) 2) Alvin Schwartz 3) These are scary stories that are based off of different urban legends and folklore. The stories are not specific to different cultures and regions; they are sporadic. Topics range from children in a grave yard to spiders coming out of your face. 4) Fictional, horror 5) The illustrations leave nothing to the imagination. They are gruesome to look at. One of the stories has children playing in a graveyard. 6) According to Goodreads, the book received 3. 93 stars out of 5 stars. Comments provided state that the scary parts of the books are not in the writing, the scary parts are the illustrations. 7) This is the number one book on the American Library Association’s 100 most frequently challenged books:1990- 1999. 8) Ages 11+

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100 most frequently challenged books: 1990- 1999. //American Library Association. 2012. http://www.ala.org/advocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/challengedbydecade/1990_1999// Scary stories to tell in the dark. //Goodread Inc.// 2012 Schwartz, A. (1981). Scary stories to tell in the dark. New York: New York. //Haper Collins.//

__Scary Stories Series __ by Alvin Schwartz is another banned series. The series has several short stories in each book full of horror, Satanism, offensive language, occult and sexually explicit stories. The genre is fiction. The general public’s opinion of the book is considered to be offensive to the religious groups due to the above reasons, especially the Satanism (believing in the Devil). The history of its censorship has just been recently. The books are written for the 4thgrade level up to middle school and beyond. They are very simple quick reads.