Welcome to Banned Books Week. This celebration of the freedom to read and the First Amendment runs from September 25 - October 2, 2010 (the last week of September every annually). Intellectual freedom, or the freedom to express ideas and access information and ideas regardless of if they are considered unpopular, lays the foundation for Banned Books Week.
Books that have been challenged or banned are featured during Banned Books Week. These books have been challenged for a wide variety of reasons ranging from portrayal of families to use of profanity. You may be surprised to read how many challenged or banned books you have already read on the American Library Association's list of Banned or Challenged Classics.
If you are interested in learning more about Banned Books Week visit the American Library Association's Banned Books Week Site or Banned-Books.com.
In celebration of this week we have put a display of banned books in the library. This display includes a mixture of classics you have read in class and popular fiction. All of these books have been included on the American Library Association's lists of the most frequently banned and challenged books for the past three years.
Our display titles include:
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
- Anne Frank: the diary of a young girl
- The Bean Trees by Barbara Kinsolver
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
- The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
- My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer
- Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the west by Gregory Maguire
Happy (free) Reading,
Miss Kenny
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