September 2020 McKay Matters Giveaway—Banned Books

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Across
  1. 8. _____ ____ _____, Hear My Cry
  2. 10. This abolitionist book was banned both in the Confederate States during the Civil War and in Russia during the reign of Nicholas I because of its idea of equality.
  3. 12. A dystopian novel about the dangers of censorship, a book that was once challenged for its depiction of firemen
Down
  1. 1. Its film adaptation featured a star-studded cast, including Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey
  2. 2. The Perks of Being a _____________
  3. 3. A popular children's book series about two fourth-grade pranksters and a superhero known for his tighty-whities
  4. 4. Yea, this book hath been considered one of the best-selling books of all time.
  5. 5. A book series and film franchise challenged for encouraging satanism and witchcraft in the early 2000s
  6. 6. The main character of an American classic famous for its use of U.S. southern dialect—and its use of racial slurs
  7. 7. A children's horror book series often challenged throughout the 1990s for being a little too spooky
  8. 9. The AUTHOR of a 1970 book commonly challenged in the 1980s for alleged anti-Christian themes and discussions of sex and puberty
  9. 11. Between 1952 and 1957, the CIA dropped millions of balloons carrying copies of this novel into Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, whose airforces were ordered to shoot the balloons down.