Catalog / The Dead Zone
The Dead Zone
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Stephen King
After years in a coma, Johnny Smith discovers that physical contact can show him fragments of the past or the future. The novel becomes a moral and political thriller about free will.
- First publication
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Original language
- English
- ISBN-10
- 1501144510
- ISBN-13
- 9781501144516
- ASIN
- B01ITNRLCE
Why was The Dead Zone challenged?
The Dead Zone by Stephen King 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 The Dead Zone 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.
- Source → Top 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books: 1990-1999 American Library Association
Other questions
- Is The Dead Zone 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 The Dead Zone challenged?
- The novel appears on the ALA list of the 100 most frequently challenged books of the 1990s.
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Same author or shared themes in the catalog.
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