You will never, ever guess what book got challenged in North Carolina this year.

Never, never ever.

See if you can guess which title made me howl:

From ABC News:

"The Chocolate War," by Robert Cormier
"Cassell's Dictionary of Slang" by Jonathon Green
"Reluctantly Alice" by Phyllis Reynolds
"In the Night Kitchen" by Maurice Sendak
"Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky, Peaky Spying" by Barbara Park

Chocolate War, no surprise there.  Everyone and their mom challenges Cormier.  Same goes for the Alice book.  Cassell's Dictionary of Slang, I would assume, contains profanity.  In the Night Kitchen contains a drawing of a naked child.  Regardless of the completely non-sexual nature of Sendak's illustration (Cripes, the Superman billboard is more offensive -- do you think it was a coincidence that they have him flying over an outline of the only state that happens to be shaped like a huge penis?  Get it?  Because Superman is so MANLY?), someone feels the need to freak out about it every so often.  So no surprise there either, sadly.

But JUNIE B. JONES???  I've never thought she was anything but lame and completely inoffensive.  Ye gods, what is this world coming to?