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Parents Hate ‘Captain Underpants’

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More than ‘Fifty Shades of Grey.’

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What's more controversial than Fifty Shades of Grey? An almost-nude, crime-fighting Captain Underpants, apparently. In 2013, the children's book was named the most frequently challenged book by the American Library Association, for the second year in a row. Captain Underpants beat out the erotic Fifty Shades, along with The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie.

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