Banned Books Week - September 21 - 27

BANNED BOOKS WEEK

Right to Read

September 21 - 27, 2014 

Celebrate your "right to read" and to choose your own books.

 

For the past three years, we've created a new Banned Books Scrabble bracelet to celebrate the week.  This year the titles included on our Banned Book bracelet are:

 

1984
Animal Farm
Catch-22
Clockwork Orange
Slaughterhouse Five
All the King's Men
The Great Gatsby

 

New Banned Books Bracelet 2014

Banned Books Bracelet

This year's Banned Books Week will run September 21 - 27, 2014.  It gives us the opportunity to celebrate our freedom to read!!  Banned Books Week began in 1982 and each year libraries and bookstores help to create an awareness of challenged books. 

Here is the top ten list of frequently challenged books from the Office of Intellectual Freedom for 2013:

1. Captain Underpants (series), by Dav Pilkey
   Reasons: Offensive language, unsuited for age group, violence
2. The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
   Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, violence
3. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
   Reasons: Drugs/alcohol/smoking, offensive language, racism, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group
4. Fifty Shades of Grey, by E.L. James
   Reasons: Nudity, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group
5. The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
   Reasons: Religious viewpoint, unsuited to age group
6. A Bad Boy Can Be Good for A Girl, by Tanya Lee Stone
   Reasons: Drugs/alcohol/smoking, nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit
7. Looking for Alaska, by John Green
   Reasons: Drugs/alcohol/smoking, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group
8. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
   Reasons: drugs/alcohol/smoking, homosexuality, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group
9. Bless Me Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya
   Reasons: Occult/Satanism, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit
10. Bone (series), by Jeff Smith
    Reasons: Political viewpoint, racism, violence

To view and download free lists of the most challenged books, you can go to the American Library Association website.

Click here for lists of the most challenged books at ALA.

If you would like to read more about Banned Books Week...click here.

 

Here are our other two Banned Books Scrabble Bracelets:

Banned Books Bracelet

Banned Books Bracelet

 

 

 We are fortunate that we have the right to read literature of our choosing.

Celebrate the FREEDOM TO READ not everyone is so fortunate!