<P> In 1960 , a teacher in Tulsa , Oklahoma was fired for assigning the novel in class ; however , he was later reinstated . Between 1961 and 1982 , The Catcher in the Rye was the most censored book in high schools and libraries in the United States . The book was banned in the Issaquah , Washington , high schools in 1978 as being part of an `` overall communist plot '' . In 1981 , it was both the most censored book and the second most taught book in public schools in the United States . According to the American Library Association , The Catcher in the Rye was the 10th most frequently challenged book from 1990 to 1999 . It was one of the ten most challenged books of 2005 , and although it had been off the list for three years , it reappeared in the list of most challenged books of 2009 . </P>
where was the catcher in the rye banned
high schools and libraries in the United States