By Steevigh Cwayna
Library Acquisitions Specialist
Next week, Sept. 24 – Oct. 1, 2011, is Banned Books Week; a yearly celebration of the freedom to read and the First Amendment.
Titles include [Links open to GRCC’s library or if we don’t have the title available, to GRPL’s library]:
- And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
Reason for banning: homosexuality, religious viewpoint, unsuited to age group - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Reasons for banning: offensive language, racism, religious viewpoint, sex education, sexually explicit, violence, unsuited to age group - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Reasons for banning: insensitivity, offensive language, racism, sexually explicit - Crank by Ellen Hopkins
Reasons for banning: drugs, offensive language, racism, sexually explicit - The Hunger Games (series), by Suzanne Collins
Reasons for banning: sexaully explicit, violence, unsuited to age group - Lush by Natasha Friend
Reasons for banning: drugs, sexually explicit, offensive language, unsuited to age group - What My Mother Doesn’t Know by Sonya Sones
Reasons for banning: sexism, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group - Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Reasons for banning: drugs, inaccurate, offensive language, political viewpoint, religious viewpoint - Revolutionary Voices edited by Amy Sonnie
Reasons for banning: homosexuality, sexually explicit - Twilight (series) by Stephanie Meyer
Reasons for banning: sexually explicit, religious viewpoint, violence, unsuited to age group
For more information on the subject of banned books, please visit the American Library Association’s site.
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