Stephenie Meyer, the hottest author for young people since J.K. Rowling, has a new link to the creator of "Harry Potter": a place high on the list of books most complained about by parents and educators. [b]Meyer's multimillion-selling "Twilight" series was ranked No. 5 on the annual report of "challenged books"[/b] released Wednesday by the American Library Association. Meyer's stories of vampires and teen romance have been criticized for [b]sexual content[/b]; a library association official also thinks that the "Twilight" series reflects [b]general unease about supernatural stories[/b]. "Vampire novels have been a target for years and the `Twilight' books are so immensely popular that [b]a lot of the concerns people have had about vampires are focused on her books[/b]," says Barbara Jones, director of the association's Office for Intellectual Freedom. Christian groups for years have protested the [b]themes of wizardry in Rowling's books[/b], which don't appear on the current top 10. Topping the 2009 chart was [b]Lauren Myracle's "IM" series[/b], novels told through instant messages that have been criticized for nudity, language and drug references. Last year's No. 1 book, [b]"And Tango Makes Three," by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson[/b], is now No. 2, cited again for its story about two male penguins adopting a baby. Third was [b]Stephen Chbosky's "The Perks of Being a Wallflower,"[/b] for which the many reasons include drugs, suicide, homosexuality and being antifamily. Also cited were such perennials as [b]J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye"[/b] (sexual content, language), [b]Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird"[/b] (language, racism), [b]Alice Walker's "The Color Purple"[/b] (sexual content, language) and [b]Robert Cormier's "The Chocolate War"[/b] (nudity, language, sexual content). The ALA recorded 460 challenges in 2009, a drop from 513 the year before, and 81 books actually being removed. The ALA defines a challenge as a "formal, written complaint filed with a library or school requesting that materials be removed because of content or appropriateness." For every challenge tallied, about four or five end up unreported, according to the ALA.