Author Lauren Myracle’s young adult series ttyl has topped the American Library Association’s (ALA) Top Ten list of the Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2009. A “challenge” is a formal, written complaint to a library or school, “requesting that materials be removed or restricted because of content or appropriateness.” Ttyl gives us a look at the lives of three high-school sophomore girls through the instant messages they send to each other. Reasons given for its challenges were Nudity, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group, and Drugs. You may remember Myracle from her clash with publisher scholastic last fall, when the book giant decided to remove her young adult novel Luv Ya Bunches from its book fairs because one of the main characters has lesbian moms. Thousands of people, led by Change.org members, came to Myracle’s defense. Dropping from the top position to number two this year is And
