BANNED BOOK WEEK, Sept 23 - 30

[MethuenProgressive]

BANNED BOOKS WEEK
September 23 - 30,

http://www.nevinslibrary.org/banned_books_week_2006.htm

Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1982, the annual event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted.- American Library Association

Vote For Your Favorite Banned Book here:

http://cs.ala.org/websurvey/pio/challengedbook/index.cfm?CFID=62899465&CFTOKEN=95973122

Visit the University of Pennsylvania's Banned Books Online page here:

http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu/books/banned-books.html

"Congress Shall Make No Law Respecting an Establishment of Religion, or Prohibiting the Free Exercise Thereof; or Abridging the Freedom of Speech, or of the Press; or the Right of the People Peaceably to Assemble, and To Petition the Government for a Redress of Grievances."

- First Amendment

[Warpy]

1. When I was a brat

my reading list was the Catholic Legion of Decency's banned book list. I soon became able to spot the porn and weed it out (badly written, formulaic, and didn't make sense to a ten year old). What was left were authors like Henry Miller, Bertrand Russell, and other rebels against suburban blandness.

I'm sure there are precocious brats out there today who look at the books the library is banning, saving their allowances, and using those lists as their reading lists.

The kids who respect the banned books list are likely the kids who don't read, anyway.

[annabanana]

2. I voted for "Captain Underpants"

Why on earth would anyone want this series banned? It is irresistible to the most book-averse 8 year old boy alive.

[mourningdove92]

3. The Most Challenged books from 1990-2000

1. Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
2. Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
4. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
7. Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
8. Forever by Judy Blume
9. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
10. Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
11. Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
12. My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
13. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
14. The Giver by Lois Lowry
15. It's Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
16. Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
17. A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
18. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
19. Sex by Madonna
20. Earth's Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
21. The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
22. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
23. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
24. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
25. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
26. The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard
27. The Witches by Roald Dahl
28. The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
29. Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
30. The Goats by Brock Cole
31. Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
32. Blubber by Judy Blume
33. Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
34. Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
35. We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
36. Final Exit by Derek Humphry
37. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
38. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
39. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
40. What's Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
41. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
42. Beloved by Toni Morrison
43. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
44. The Pigman by Paul Zindel
45. Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
46. Deenie by Judy Blume
47. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
48. Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
49. The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
50. Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz
51. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
52. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
53. Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
54. Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole
55. Cujo by Stephen King
56. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
57. The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
58. Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
59. Ordinary People by Judith Guest
60. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
61. What's Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
62. Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
63. Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
64. Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
65. Fade by Robert Cormier
66. Guess What? by Mem Fox
67. The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
68. The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
69. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
70. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
71. Native Son by Richard Wright
72. Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women's Fantasies by Nancy Friday
73. Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
74. Jack by A.M. Homes
75. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
76. Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
77. Carrie by Stephen King
78. Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
79. On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
80. Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
81. Family Secrets by Norma Klein
82. Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole
83. The Dead Zone by Stephen King
84. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
85. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
86. Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
87. Private Parts by Howard Stern
88. Where's Waldo? by Martin Hanford
89. Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
90. Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
91. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
92. Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
93. Sex Education by Jenny Davis
94. The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
95. Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
96. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
97. View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts
98. The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
99. The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
100. Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

unbelievable! The list from 2000 on is very similar. I did not post a link to it as it is a PDF file, but you can find it at this link.
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/100mostfrequently.htm

[Truthiness Inspector]

9. A lot of great books on that list

Thanks for posting it; makes me want to reread quite a few of them I thoroughly enjoyed the first time through!

[undergroundpanther]

4. How to Eat Fried Worms

I read that I liked it years ago.

BTW they just made a movie of it. Will it get BANNED too?

[MethuenProgressive]

8. "A Wrinkle in Time:??

That list is, as my kids would say, whacked! :D

[undergroundpanther]

5. Why don't we ban

book banners, ban them from the library.

Remember you are responsible for you're own being offended and to censor yourself, and not censor others. Bible says so,Remember..
If thine right eye offends thee pluck it out? well GET PLUCKING.. If you are too chicken shit to pluck it out yourself,I'd be GLAD to do it FOR you in the name of the first amendment ..Leave freedom of speech alone you control freak censorious pieces of shit.

[skooooo]

6. Another web site..

http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/banned/

[LWolf]

7. There are too many great books to vote for a favorite.

As a former school librarian, I'll list some of my favorites that were challenged, unsuccessfully for the most part, during my tenure:

The Martian Chronicles
Johnny Got His Gun
Scary Stories
The Chocolate War
Are You There, God, It's Me, Margaret
A Day No Pigs Would Die
The Magic School Bus in the Time of the Dinosaurs
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Bridge to Terabithia
The Giver
In the Night Kitchen
A Wrinkle In Time
The Outsiders

Just those that pop into my brain; I've been out of the library and into the classroom for a dozen years now, but still remember the constant challenges. The battles over the list above must be especially memorable, lol.