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|''The Jungle Book''  
 
|''The Jungle Book''  
 
|[[Rudyard Kipling]]
 
|[[Rudyard Kipling]]
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|A boy named Mowgli is found orphaned in the Indian jungle and is raised by a pack of wolves, with Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear as his teachers. He also faces down Shere Khan, a crippled tiger who wants to kill Mowgli after killing his parents. The book promotes friendship and family values, and misanthropy is frowned down upon.
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|A boy named Mowgli is found orphaned in the Indian jungle and is raised by a pack of wolves, with Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear as his teachers. He also faces down Shere Khan, a crippled tiger who wants to kill and eat Mowgli after separating him from his parents. The book promotes friendship and family values, and misanthropy is frowned down upon.
 
|Children's Literature
 
|Children's Literature
 
|1894
 
|1894
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|''Maus''  
 
|''Maus''  
 
|Art Spiegelman
 
|Art Spiegelman
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|Portrays the sheer disgustingness of the German National Socialists from the viewpoint of a Holocaust survivor.In 2022 the book was banned by the McMinn County School Board in [[Tennessee]]<ref>[https://www.cnbc.com/22/01/26/tennessee-school-board-bans-holocaust-comic-maus-by-art-spiegelman.html Tennessee school board bans Holocaust graphic novel ‘Maus’ – author Art Spiegelman condemns the move as ‘Orwellian’ ]</ref>
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|Portrays the sheer disgustingness of the German National Socialists from the viewpoint of a Holocaust survivor. In 2022 the book was banned by the McMinn County School Board in [[Tennessee]]<ref>[https://www.cnbc.com/22/01/26/tennessee-school-board-bans-holocaust-comic-maus-by-art-spiegelman.html Tennessee school board bans Holocaust graphic novel ‘Maus’ – author Art Spiegelman condemns the move as ‘Orwellian’ ]</ref>
 
|Autobiography/Biography
 
|Autobiography/Biography
 
|1980  
 
|1980  
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|''Ferdinand the Bull''
 
|''Ferdinand the Bull''
 
|Munro Leaf
 
|Munro Leaf
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|This book is about a bull named Ferdinand who lives in Spain and sniffs flowers instead of fighting a matador in a bullring. It also inspired conservative leader [[Martin Luther King]]. In 1938, Walt Disney had created a cartoon about Ferdinand, and an animated movie about Ferdinand (created by Blue Sky Studios) was released after in 2017.
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|This book is about a bull named Ferdinand who lives in Spain and prefers to stay under his favorite cork tree and smell flowers over fighting a matador in a bullring. It also inspired conservative leader [[Martin Luther King]]. In 1938, Walt Disney had created a cartoon about Ferdinand, and an animated movie about Ferdinand (created by Blue Sky Studios) was released after in 2017.
 
|Children's Literature
 
|Children's Literature
 
|1936
 
|1936
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|''Hocus Pocus and the All New Sequel''
 
|''Hocus Pocus and the All New Sequel''
 
|A.W. Jantha
 
|A.W. Jantha
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|The first part of this novelization of the classic 1993 [[Halloween]] film ''Hocus Pocus'' contain the same conservative messages that the movie had portrayed: family and friendship, as well as resisting against evil. The sequel has Max and Allison's daughter Poppy witnessing the three Sanderson witch sisters rising up again after twenty-five years, and she must work with her friends and Thackery Binx's ghost to stop them from wreaking the destruction that her parents and aunt helped stop. While the sequel contains most of the same conservative messages that the book before and the film portrayed, Poppy is shown to be homosexual by having a crush on a fellow girl after being friends for years.
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|The first part of this novelization of the classic 1993 [[Halloween]] film ''Hocus Pocus'' contain the same conservative messages that the movie had portrayed: family and friendship, as well as resisting against evil. The sequel has Max and Allison's daughter Poppy witnessing the three Sanderson witch sisters rising up again after twenty-five years, and she must work with her friends and Thackery Binx's ghost to stop them from wreaking the destruction that her parents and aunt had helped stop. While the sequel contains most of the same conservative messages that the book before and the film portrayed, Poppy is shown to be homosexual by having a crush on a fellow girl after being friends for years.
 
|Young Adult Novel/Fantasy
 
|Young Adult Novel/Fantasy
 
|2018
 
|2018
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|''Warriors''
 
|''Warriors''
 
|Erin Hunter
 
|Erin Hunter
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|''Warriors'' (or ''Warrior Cats'') is an ongoing book series about five colonies of feral cats called Clans living together and fighting for survival. The series starts with a house cat named Rusty leaving his owners to join one of these Clans, and later books star much more characters that include the descendants of Rusty - who eventually becomes Firestar - and even cats from before his era. The series itself has had seven six-book arcs (with an eighth arc on the way), fourteen stand-alone books, four manga arcs and three stand-alone manga novels, five field guides, and twenty-one novellas.
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|''Warriors'' (or ''Warrior Cats'') is an ongoing book series about five colonies of feral cats called Clans living together and fighting for survival. The series starts with a house cat named Rusty leaving his owners to join one of these Clans, and later books star much more characters that include the descendants of Rusty - who eventually becomes Firestar - and even cats from before his era. The series itself has had eight six-book arcs, fourteen stand-alone books, four manga arcs and four stand-alone manga novels, five field guides, and twenty-one novellas.
    
The series starts out pretty neutral, one example being that while the Clans are staying separate, they can still come together to fight whatever threatens all the Clans, including Scourge and his BloodClan cats as well as the Dark Forest (the cat version of hell). Family is portrayed positively, an example being Firestar agreeing to adopt his sister's firstborn kitten Cloudtail so that he can be a warrior like him. Totalitarianism is condemned through leaders like Brokenstar, who kills kittens during battle practice and forces his cats to constantly go to war.
 
The series starts out pretty neutral, one example being that while the Clans are staying separate, they can still come together to fight whatever threatens all the Clans, including Scourge and his BloodClan cats as well as the Dark Forest (the cat version of hell). Family is portrayed positively, an example being Firestar agreeing to adopt his sister's firstborn kitten Cloudtail so that he can be a warrior like him. Totalitarianism is condemned through leaders like Brokenstar, who kills kittens during battle practice and forces his cats to constantly go to war.
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However, more liberal elements show up in later books. An open border policy is suggested as good, an example being Mistystar's decision to temporarily close RiverClan's borders and look after her own cats first being portrayed as negative (however, this has been seen as not completely bad by some fans, who said that it could put an end to inbreeding in the Clans). Moral relativism is even seen as good in a way, an example being the author portraying the murderous manipulator Mapleshade as sympathetic by making everyone around her even worse; there are, however, instances where a villain's tragic history doesn't excuse their evil actions (like Ashfur, whose lust for Firestar's daughter Squirrelflight leads to him possessing her mate's body to control her). There seems to be a pro-anarchy message in the form of Needletail, who refuses to take responsibility for helping the sixth arc's villain, Darktail, take control of ShadowClan due to resentment towards their leader Rowanstar. ''The Raging Storm'' portrays an unsubtle jab at Donald Trump's 2016 slogan "Make America Great Again" by painting Tigerheart's line "Make ShadowClan great again" in a negative light. Finally, the series promotes a slight environmentalist message in glorifying the wild cats' harsh life while having the Clan cats look down on house cats (known to them as "kittypets") for living safer and saner lifestyles.
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However, more liberal elements show up in later books. An open border policy is suggested as good, an example being Mistystar's decision to temporarily close RiverClan's borders and look after her own cats first being portrayed as negative (however, this has been seen as not completely bad by some fans, who said that it could put an end to inbreeding in the Clans). Moral relativism is even seen as good in a way, an example being the author portraying the murderous manipulator Mapleshade as sympathetic by making everyone around her even worse; there are, however, instances where a villain's tragic history doesn't excuse their evil actions (like Ashfur, whose lust for Firestar's daughter Squirrelflight leads to him possessing her mate's body to control her). There seems to be a pro-anarchy message in the form of Needletail, who refuses to take responsibility for helping the sixth arc's villain, Darktail, take control of ShadowClan due to resentment towards their leader Rowanstar. ''The Raging Storm'' portrays an unsubtle jab at Donald Trump's 2016 slogan "Make America Great Again" by painting Tigerheart's line "Make ShadowClan great again" in a negative light. Finally, the series promotes a slight environmentalist message in glorifying the wild cats' harsh life while having the Clan cats look down on house cats (known to them as "kittypets") for preferring to be with loving humans over wild living.
 
|Xenofiction/Fantasy
 
|Xenofiction/Fantasy
 
|2003-
 
|2003-
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