Banned Books Week is the last week in
September and is set aside to remind people of the importance of the freedom to
choose books. It highlights books that have been removed from schools,
libraries, or attempted to be removed through censorship.
This
year Banned Books Week runs from September 30th through October 6th. We celebrated by having our Teen
Advisory Board (TAB) design and make a display of books that have been banned
elsewhere. Our theme this year is Set
Books Free. This year, the TAB
designed a prison display that patrons can ‘free’ banned books from. It’s up to everyone to keep books from being
locked away.
Most
books are challenged because they are seen as "offensive" or
"inappropriate" for a specific age group. It is always appropriate
for a parent or guardian to decide what is best for their family, but Banned
Book Week is a chance for librarians, teachers, booksellers, and members of the
community (that's you!) to celebrate their conviction that a diversity of views
and ideas is necessary for a vital, functioning democracy. I mean, what kind of
country would we be if we DIDN'T fight for freedom of expression!?
The
freedom to seek and read materials in a vital and necessary part of ensuring
our first
amendment
rights. As long as there are people and groups that try to dictate what
everyone
else
will read there will be people that work to ensure that everyone gets to choose
what’s
best
for themselves.
Do
your part: check out a "Banned" Book today!!! Below is the list of the most challenged books and authors of the year. For more information about Banned Books Week go to:
Most Challenged Books of 2011
1. ttyl; ttfn;
l8r, g8r (series), by Lauren Myracle YP FIC MYRACLE
2. The Color of
Earth (series), by Kim Dong Hwa YP FIC HWA
3. The Hunger
Games trilogy, by Suzanne Collins YP FIC COLLINS
4. My Mom's
Having A Baby! A Kid's Month-by-Month Guide to Pregnancy, by Dori Hillestad
Butler J 618.2 BUTLER
5. The
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie YP FIC
ALEXIE
6. Alice
(series), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor YP FIC NAYLOR
7. Brave New
World, by Aldous Huxley FIC HUXLEY
8. What My
Mother Doesn't Know, by Sonya Sones YP FIC SONES
9. Gossip Girl
(series), by Cecily Von Ziegesar YP FIC VONZIEGE
10. To Kill a
Mockingbird, by Harper Lee FIC LEE
Most Challenged Authors of 2011
Sherman
Alexie The
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Dori
Hillestead Butler My
Mom's Having A Baby
Suzanne
Collins The
Hunger Games
trilogy
Chris
Crutcher Whale
Talk
Eric
Jerome Dickey Chasing
Destiny
Robert
Greene The
48 Laws of Power
Aldous
Huxley Brave
New World
Kim
Dong Hwa Color
of Earth (series)
Harper
Lee To
Kill a Mockingbird
Carolyn
Mackler The
Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
Lauren
Myracle ttyl;
ttfn; l8r, g8r
(series)
Phyllis
Reynolds Naylor Alice (series)
Dav
Pilkey The
Adventures of Captain Underpants (series)
Sonya
Sones What
My Mother Doesn't Know
Cecily
Von Ziegesar Gossip Girl (series)
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