Celebrate Your Freedoms!
Read Banned Books!
Enter Our "Discover Banned Books" Contest!
Pages from 10 different books were used for these book covers!
Your Task: Tell us which 10 books were used for the pages covering all the challenged books on display and why they made the list.
(Hint: Each book in question is covered in its own redacted text.)
Submit the Book Title, Author, and Reason for as many of the "edited" pages as you can via email by Friday, October 4, 2013.
Good Luck!
Discover what your missing!
Because even in 2013, in communities large and small, materials are still challenged or restricted. While books usually are challenged with the best intentions—to protect others, frequently children, from difficult ideas and information, this censorship limits our freedoms to choose what we read, see, or hear.
From the American Library Association
as well as adults. While parents have the right—and the responsibility—to guide
their own children’s reading, that right does not extend to other people’s children.
Similarly, each adult has the right to choose his or her own reading materials,
along with the responsibility to acknowledge and respect the right of others to do
the same."
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