Banned Books Week starts today and goes through October 3rd. This is a week to celebrate our freedom to read and to bring a stop to censorship. We believe that only you should have the power to determine what you read.
More:
- Have you read Gossip Girl, ttyl, or Perks of Being a Wallflower? Imagine if they were banned. A lot of people want them to be--they made it in the ten most frequently challenged books of last year.
- A high school student keeps banned books in his locker and loans them out to friends.
- Author Ellen Hopkins asks you to join the fight against censorship in her Manifesto.
- Authors like Laurie Halse Anderson, John Green, E. Lockhart, and Maureen Johnson talk about being censored.
- Books that people have wanted challenged--but you can check them out at our library. Or not. It's totally your call...that's what this is all about.
1 comment:
Hooray for banned book week! Many of my favorite books would not be here if not for it!
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