When I was younger I wanted to get my hands on the items people told me were "controversial" - okay, okay, I still do that now, but using banned books as a way to promote literacy is a GREAT idea.
Using librarything.com, I did a search for some of the most popular banned book titles and found one of my favorites, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Here are some of the tags I found for the novel:
adventure(280) boarding school(152) British(277) children(468) children's(898) children's fiction(257) children's literature(465) England(241) fantasy(5,750) favorite(139) fiction(3,657) hardcover(158) Harry Potter(2,502) Hogwarts(205) HP(123) J.K. Rowling(274) juvenile(149) kids(122) magic(1,636) novel(334) own(343) read(780) Rowling(162) school(180) series(719) sff(154) witches(285) wizards(806) YA(489) young adult(887)
You can find the rest of the tags (and there are a LOT) and other information about the book and author at http://www.librarything.com/work/2742161.
I chose this because the use and promotion of banned book may be the thing that gets a kid who HATES reading interested in something. If you tell them they are not supposed to be doing something (in this case, not supposed to be reading something), of course you peak their interest. I am a full believer in every kid will have something they want to read; it’s about finding that something that is the challenge! The Harry Potter series got kids, even those who never showed an interest before, to read. Find a book to match the child - it's just a good policy.
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