WELCOME TO BANNED BOOK WEEK!!!!!
Working at the library has given me a sense of pride in joining the ongoing problem of censorship in books. While doing a project for work on banned book week, I was amazed at the number of books that had been challenged over the years. I was shocked, I guess because I had always been allowed to read whatever I wanted. I was amazed to find out that more then 11,300 books have been challenged since 1982. Books that I never thought of to be wrong and I thorughly enjoyed. Reading to me was a sort of escape from the real world. I just jumped into a book with both feet.
The 10 most challenged titles of 2011 were:
- ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series), by Lauren Myracle
Reasons: offensive language; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group - The Color of Earth (series), by Kim Dong Hwa
Reasons: nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group - The Hunger Games trilogy, by Suzanne Collins
Reasons: anti-ethnic; anti-family; insensitivity; offensive language; occult/satanic; violence - My Mom's Having A Baby! A Kid's Month-by-Month Guide to Pregnancy, by Dori Hillestad Butler
Reasons: nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
Reasons: offensive language; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group - Alice (series), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Reasons: nudity; offensive language; religious viewpoint - Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Reasons: insensitivity; nudity; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit - What My Mother Doesn't Know, by Sonya Sones
Reasons: nudity; offensive language; sexually explicit - Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily Von ZiegesarReasons: drugs; offensive language; sexually explicit
- To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Reasons: offensive language; racism
www.bannedbookweeks.org
http://www.alsc.ala.org/blog
http://www.ala.org/news/pr?id=11432
http://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2012/09/why-was-that-challenged/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AlscBlog+%28ALSC+Blog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
http://www.ala.org/advocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/21stcenturychallenged#2011
here you can search to see frequently banned books
http://www.ala.org/advocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged
Don't let books be banned, make them happy read them!!!!
The Hunger Games promoted Satanism? Where on Earth did they get that from the book? LOL
ReplyDeleteolivia I have no idea where they got have of the reasons from.
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