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Monday, May 30, 2011

How to Eat Fried Worms

In after school tutoring we recently finished reading "How to eat Fried Worms." The book was written by Thomas Rockwell in 1973. It is the story of 10-year-old Billy who makes a bet with his friend Alan that he can eat anything! So Alan bets him $50 to eat 15 worms in 15 days, one worm a day. Billy wins the bet by eating the worms covered in all kinds of sauces and fried.


This book has often been censored and protested because of its content. Some people believe that it is disgusting. It appears on the American Library Association's List of Most Commonly Challenged Books in the U.S. of 1990-2000. It is number 96 on the list. "Most Commonly Challenged" means that many people have argued that it shouldn't be read, shouldn't be in our schools, or in our libraries. What do you think, does How to Eat Fried Worms deserve to be on this list? Give details to support your answer.

More "food" for thought: Shel Silverstein's collection of poems "A Light in the Attic" is also on the list.

5 comments:

emery said...

I think schools should read this book because it is a fun book to read.There is nothing rong with this book.That is why
i think this book should be read.And is not like it shows you hes eating it.It shows him at the end.

Natalie said...

Yes I think that we should not read the book because It's nasty and It's inpropereaite for schools becauseIt says bad words.

aaron said...

I thinck it shudent be red beacus it is not ipopriet and it is nasty and pepole will do the same thing.

amir said...

yes, because this book has lot of bad words in it and some fight in it so that why it shoud be challenged. and we shouid still have the movie of how to eat fried worms.

d'halani said...

1. no beacuse it's deskusting and intopropiet for school.
2.it should not be in schools becuse it have bad words and it's not school lanwaige