Thursday, September 22, 2011

Banned Books Week


BANNED BOOKS WEEK
is September 24-October 1, 2011

For more information, check out : www.ala.org/bbw

Help celebrate your right to read what you want! Check out the website above or the list below for a great, and often controversial, read.


Top 10 Banned Books of 2010:


1) And Tango Makes Three, by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson;

2) The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie;

3) Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley;

4) Crank, by Ellen Hopkins;

5) The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins;

6) Lush, by Natasha Friend;

7) What My Mother Doesn't Know, by Sonya Sones;

8) Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich;
(challenged @ Easton, Penn. School District in 2010)

9) Revolutionary Voices, edited by Amy Sonnie;

10) Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer

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