Banned Book Week will be celebrated across the country September 27-October 4. Sometimes people will try to tell you what you can and can't read. In this library, I try to purchase a variety of books and not censor materials...unless it is obviously inappropriate for this age group.
It is amazing what books have been challenged or banned in the last 15-20 years. I've posted a sign of all of those books that we have in the library. Even The Giver, a book I showed many classes during library orientation, has been challenged.
American Library Association's (ALA) Banned Book Week: Celebrate the Freedom to Read has been observed since 1982 to remind American's not to take ther democratic freedom for granted. If interested on more information, here's that website: www.ala.org/bbooks
Posted by Tricia LaRue on September 10, 2008
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