<Li> 1998: Challenged for use in Richland, Washington, high - school English classes, along with six other titles determined to be "poor quality literature and (that) stress suicide, illicit sex, violence, and hopelessness". </Li> <Li> 1999: Challenged because of graphic sex, but retained on the advanced placement English list, at George D. Chamberlain High School in Tampa, Florida . </Li> <Li> 2000: Downgraded from "required" to "optional" on the summer reading list for eleventh graders in the Upper Moreland School District near Philadelphia due to "age - inappropriate" subject matter . </Li> <Li> 2001: Challenged, but retained, in the Dripping Springs, Texas, senior Advanced Placement English course as an optional reading assignment . Some parents were offended by the book's descriptions of sexual encounters . </Li>

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