"The Hunger Games" 3rd Most Challenged Book

 Some parents believe that this series doesn't belong in schools. The American Library Association released this year's most challenged book list and "The Hunger Games" was one of the top books.

For the second year in a row, Suzanne Collins’ work was among the most “challenged” books, as reported Sunday by the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. The association defines a challenge as “a formal, written complaint filed with a library or school requesting that a book or other material be restricted or removed because of its content or appropriateness.”
In last year’s list, when just the title book of the trilogy was in the top 10, complaints included “sexually explicit” and “unsuited to age group and violence.” Collins herself acknowledged her dystopian stories were not for everyone, telling The Associated Press at the time that she had heard “people were concerned about the level of violence in the books. That’s not unreasonable. They are violent. It’s a war trilogy.”
For the new study, which also included “Catching Fire” and “Mockingjay,” the objections were more varied, and harsher, including “Anti-ethnic; anti-family; insensitivity; offensive language; occult/satanic; violence.”
…Collins declined comment through spokeswoman Tracy van Straaten of publisher Scholastic Inc. Van Straaten said Scholastic also would have no comment.
Collins’ million-selling novels ranked No. 3 on the association’s list, rising from No. 5 last year.

I'm trying to figure out how they are sexually explicit and anti ethnic! Offensive language? Occult?  Do you think that these books should be in libraries? It is in the elementary school library (where I volunteer) and at my library. Do you think that these are fair challenges that really occur in the book? Let us know in the comments.

Source: Wall Street Journal