Read them while you still can...
You may not be able to tomorrow.
Recently Banned and Challenged Books
Why were the books below banned or challenged, you ask?
Read them and find out...
The Miseducaton of Cameron Post
Looking for Alaska
An Abundance of Katherine's
Paper Towns
Two Boys Kissing
Identical
Nineteen Minutes
The Art of Racing in the Rain
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Chinese Handcuffs
Some Ridiculous reasons why people challenge or ban books:
• “Encourages children to break dishes so they won’t have to dry them.” (A Light in the Attic, by Shel Silverstein)
• “Tarzan was ‘living in sin’ with Jane.” (Tarzan, by Edgar Rice Burroughs)
• “It is a real ‘downer.’” (Diary of Anne Frank, by Anne Frank)
You have rights as a reader!
"Libraries should provide materials and information presenting all points of view on current and historical issues. Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval."
American Library Association/Office for
Intellectual Freedom