Tag: Challenged Books

• Banned Books: Steinbeck & The Library Bill of Rights

  

  Read about the book that sparked so much controversy that The Library Bill of Rights was created to protect the rights of libraries on behalf of all readers

  C.H. Armstrong

  October 2, 2015

  Banned Books Week, The Edge of Nowhere

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• Banned Books Week Day 5: Judy Blume

  

  “I went to a couple of places two years ago and I got seven hundred and something hate-mail warnings – ‘We know where you are going to be and we’ll be there waiting for you’, that sort of thing,” says Blume.

  C.H. Armstrong

  October 1, 2015

  Banned Books Week

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• Banned Books Day 4: Captain Underpants!

  

  As parents, of course we don’t want our children to be disrespectful, but do we really want them to not question something they know is wrong, even if the perpetrator of the wrong-doing is an authority figure?

  C.H. Armstrong

  September 30, 2015

  Banned Books Week

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• BANNED BOOKS WEEK: DAY TWO

  

  Rebecca Skloot states: “…my book is many things: It’s a story of race and medicine, bioethics, science illiteracy, the importance of education and equality and science and so much more. But it is not anything resembling pornography.”

  C.H. Armstrong

  September 28, 2015

  Banned Books Week

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