Showing posts with label banned books week. Show all posts
Showing posts with label banned books week. Show all posts
Saturday, September 24, 2011
It's Banned Books Week!
Do you know what books were challenged most in the last year? Here are the top 10:
1) And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
2) The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
3) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
4) Crank by Ellen Hopkins
5) The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
6) Lush by Natasha Friend
7) What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones
8) Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
9) Revolutionary Voices edited by Amy Sonnie
10) Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
What does it mean to challenge a book anyway? "A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group." Read more at the ALA.
Want to participate in the virtual read-out? Go here.
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Monday, September 27, 2010
Banned Books Week...Celebrate the Freedom to Read!

Did you know it's Banned Books Week? From the ALA:
Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States.
See a list of the top 100 banned or challenged books of the last decade. Harry Potter (series) is #1.

To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the most challenged classic books. Can you imagine not being able to read it?!
