Catalog / Flowers for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon
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Daniel Keyes
Charlie Gordon, an adult with an intellectual disability, takes part in an experiment meant to raise his intelligence. The novel explores identity, dignity, and scientific progress.
- First publication
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace & World
- Original language
- English
- ISBN-10
- 0156030306
- ISBN-13
- 9780156030304
- ASIN
- 0156030306
Why was Flowers for Algernon challenged?
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes is in this catalog because a sourced record documents an at-risk action in United States. The novel appears on the ALA list of the 100 most frequently challenged books of the 1990s.
The catalog records the scope as school. That is not a claim that the book is banned everywhere, or that a failed complaint has the same force as a prohibition. Open the sources under Bans and restrictions. Unsourced rumors are omitted.
Readers who search “why was Flowers for Algernon banned” should read the status label first. Banned, restricted, and at risk are defined on the methodology page and are not interchangeable.
Bans and restrictions
At risk United States At risk · School
The novel appears on the ALA list of the 100 most frequently challenged books of the 1990s.
Local challenges listed by the ALA; no national ban.
- Source → Top 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books: 1990-1999 American Library Association
Other questions
- Is Flowers for Algernon banned?
- In this catalog the primary documented status is “at risk” in United States. That is not a worldwide ban. Scope and sources are listed below.
- Why was Flowers for Algernon challenged?
- The novel appears on the ALA list of the 100 most frequently challenged books of the 1990s.
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