Sunday, September 30, 2012

Every Year I Support Banned Book Week. And Every Year the Top Comment I See is, "They haven't banned books for years."




This was dated May 9, 2012.
Fifty Shades of Grey banned from Florida libraries: Bestselling erotic novel removed from shelves in Brevard County as other US libraries make the most of title's popularity



The American Library Association, (ALA), has released the top ten most frequently challenged books of 2011.
You can see the full list here.

1. ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series), by Lauren Myracle
2. The Color of Earth (series), by Kim Dong Hwa
3. The Hunger Games trilogy, by Suzanne Collins
4. My Mom’s Having A Baby! A Kid’s Month-by-Month Guide to Pregnancy, by Dori Hillestad Butler
5. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
6. Alice (series), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
7. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
8. What My Mother Doesn’t Know, by Sonya Sones
9. Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily Von Ziegesar
10. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee




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