Banned Book Week

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.