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What is a Banned Book?
A banned book is one that has been removed from a library, bookstore, or school collection solely because it is considered to contain controversial content.
Sometimes banned books have even been burned or otherwise forcibly destroyed.
Banning or challenging a book is considered to be serious matter, because blatant censorship of that type is a violation of our freedom to read.
Feeedom To Read Foundation
- Freedom To Read FoundationThe Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF) is a non-profit legal and educational organization affiliated with the American Library Association. FTRF protects and defends the First Amendment to the Constitution and supports the right of libraries to collect - and individuals to access - information.
Office of Intellectual Freedom
- ALA's Office of Intellectual FreedomEstablished December 1, 1967, the Office for Intellectual Freedom is charged with implementing ALA policies concerning the concept of intellectual freedom as embodied in the Library Bill of Rights, the Association’s basic policy on free access to libraries and library materials.
Some Books on the Topic
- 100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World LiteratureBluegrass CTC - Cooper Campus Stacks
Call Number: Z658.U5 K35 1999 - Banned in the U.S.A [electronic resource] : A Reference Guide to Book Censorship in Schools and Public Libraries /Electronic Book - Click link to access
- Obscene in the Extreme : The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's the Grapes of WrathElectronic Book - Click link to access
- Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Children LearnElectronic Book: Click link to access
Banned Books Week
The American Library Association has designated September 29 - October 6 as “Banned Books Week”.
Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event of the American Library Association. It celebrates the freedom to read that is protected under the First Amendment, while also bringing awareness and attention to the dangers of censorship by highlighting actual or attempted book bannings that have occurred across the United States, both now and in the past.
Banned Books Week Banner by DML East Branch
- ALA Banned Books WeekVisit this link to learn more about ALA's Banned Books Week
- ALA Timeline: 30 Years of Liberating LiteratureSnce 1982, Banned Books Week has inspired librarians, booksellers, authors, publishers, teachers, and readers to celebrate and defend the freedom to read. To commemorate 30 years of Banned Books Week ALA has unveiled this timeline of significant banned and challenged books.
- Banned Books Week.orgVideos, virtual read-out, events and more
2011's Most Challenged Books
ALA's List of Top Ten Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2011
1) ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series), by Lauren Myracle
2) The Color of Earth (series), by Kim Dong Hwa
3) The Hunger Games trilogy, by Suzanne Collins
4) My Mom’s Having A Baby! A Kid’s Month-by-Month Guide to Pregnancy, by Dori Hillestad Butler
5) The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
6) Alice (series), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
7) Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
8) What My Mother Doesn’t Know, by Sonya Sones
9) Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily Von Ziegesar
10) To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
*A challenge is defined as a formal, written complaint filed with a library or school requesting that a book or other material be restricted or removed because of its content or appropriateness.
100 Banned Books
The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1900-2000
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