Banned Books Week

 
"The Banned Books Week Coalition is a national alliance of diverse organizations joined by a commitment to increase awareness of the annual celebration of the freedom to read. The Coalition seeks to engage various communities and inspire participation in Banned Books Week through education, advocacy, and the creation of programming about the problem of book censorship. The 2016 celebration will be held September 25-October 1.

Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. More than 11,300 books have been challenged since 1982 according to the American Library Association."  (Image and Text Source: http://www.bannedbooksweek.org)

Did you know our library contains a large number of the top 100 banned/challenged books?  Including:

Harry Potter (series) by J. K. Rowling
Alice series, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson/Peter Parnell
Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
Scary Stories (series), by Alvin Schwartz
His Dark Materials (series), by Philip Pullman
Captain Underpants (series), by Dav Pilkey
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger
To Kill a Mocking Bird, by Harper Lee
The Giver, by Lois Lowry
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
What My Mother Doesn't Know, by Sonya Sones
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Whale Talk, by Chris Crutcher
 Blubber, by Judy Blume
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey
The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
Olive's Ocean, by Kevin Henkes
Draw Me A Star, by Eric Carle
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred Taylor
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Junie B. Jones (series), by Lois Lowry
The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
Anastasia (series), by Lois Lowry
Detour for Emmy, by Marilyn Reynolds
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, by Chris Crutcher
Cut, by Patricia McCormick
Tiger Eyes, by Judy Blume
Friday Night Lights, by H. G. Bissenger
A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeline L'Engle
Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George
Are You There, God?  It's Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume

 Stop by and check out some to celebrate Banned Books Week.