The task of selecting fiction resources for inclusion in high school library collections is onerous under any circumstances. When selecting such resources the teacher librarian has to deal not only with the practical problems of space, finance and user needs, but also with the moral and philosophical considerations associated with such things as accountability, and achieving an always uneasy balance between intellectual freedom, the 'right to read', and the requirement of 'due care and protection' which imbues every aspects of schooling. From about 1970 onwards, however, high school teacher librarians in Queensland had to deal with the added problem of the existence of a highly vocal and extremely active Fundamentalist Christian schoolbook protest movement, the main target of which was the contemporary children's and adolescent fiction content of school libraries. There was, however, a second little known but potentially powerful factor which may also have exerted a different sort of influence over the nature of fiction resources purchased by Queensland teacher librarians at that time and that was Reviewpoint, the official reviewing journal of the Queensland Department of Education. It is this interactive triangle, 'restrictive moral climate', Reviewpoint, and high school teacher librarians and the results of their integration, with which this study is primarily concerned. The study therefore addresses three main questions: how effective was the 'restrictive moral climate' which existed in Queensland from 1977 to 1987, in preventing 'objectionable' adolescent fiction being purchased for high school libraries?; how much influence did Reviewpoint have on the nature of fiction purchased for Queensland high schools during that period?; and, as a consequence, was it censorship or selection of secondary school fiction which occurred in Queensland at this time? In order to gain some objective measure of the actual effect of Queensland's restrictive moral climate an analysis was made of the fiction content of a number of these libraries and the quantity of potentially 'contentious' fiction noted. A survey of Queensland teacher librarians was also analysed in order to ascertain the amount of influence which they perceive Reviewpoint to have on their fiction buying habits. The content of Reviewpoint itself was analysed in order to establish the overall nature of the fiction resources it recommended for purchase for high school library collections between 1979 and 1987.