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Why is This Side of Paradise on the ALA banned/challenged books list?

Why is "This Side of Paradise" by F. Scott Fitzgerald on the American Library Association's banned and challenged book lists? Any information about it being banned or challenged would help greatly. Thank you.

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1. I do not know the answer and can only make a guess. And that guess would be the morally uptight thinking that Amory Blaine is morally bankrupt, while to most of us, he sounds like a normal confused young man trying to find his way and self.