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The Face on the Milk Carton by Cooney
Ironman by Chris Crutcher
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy
Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher
The Freedom Writer’s Diary by Erin Gruwell
GLBTQ the Survival for Queer and Questioning Teens by Kelly Huegel
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Hoops by Walter Dean Myers
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
On the Bright Side, I’m Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God by Louise Rennison
Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff

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challenged/banned books by taking a picture of this QR code with your phone.

Banned Books Week (BBW): Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September
each year. Observed since 1982, this annual ALA event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted. BBW celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one’s opinion even if that
opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them. After all, intellectual freedom can exist only
where the freedom to express oneself and the freedom to choose what opinions and viewpoints to consume are both met. As the Intellectual Freedom Manual (ALA, 7th
edition) states: Intellectual freedom can exist only
where two essential conditions are met: first, that all individuals have the right to hold any belief on any
subject and to convey their ideas in any form they deem appropriate; and second, that society makes an
equal commitment to the right of unrestricted access to information and ideas regardless of the communication
medium used, the content of the work, and the viewpoints
of both the author and receiver of information. Freedom to express oneself through a chosen mode of communication, including the Internet, becomes virtually meaningless if
access to that information is not protected. Intellectual freedom implies a circle, and that circle is broken if either freedom of expression or access to ideas is stifled.

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“For only when free men write and speak truth will the exercise of arbitrary power be exposed and
opposed”

Closing Books Shuts Out Ideas.
Banned Books Week
Celebrate the Freedom to Read.

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
1984 by George Orwell
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Sun also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Hurston
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Kesey
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Go Tell it On the Mountain by James Balwin
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien

Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
*Take a picture of the QR code to the right for details on why these books were banned or challenged:

Over the past ten years, American libraries were faced with 4,660 challenges. 1,536 challenges due to “sexually explicit” material; 1,231 challenges due to “offensive language”; 977 challenges due to material deemed “unsuited to age group”; 553 challenges due to “violence” 370 challenges due to “homosexuality”; and further, 121 materials were challenged because they were “anti-family,” and an additional 304 were challenged because of their “religious viewpoints.” 1,720 of these challenges (approximately 37%) were in classrooms; 30% (or 1,432) were in school libraries; 24% (or 1,119) took place in public libraries. There were 32 challenges to college classes and 106 to academic libraries. There are isolated cases of challenges to materials made available in or by prisons, special libraries, community groups, and student groups. The majority of challenges were initiated by parents (almost exactly 48%), while patrons and administrators followed behind (10% each).

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Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
TTYL series by Lauren Myracle
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Earth, My Butt and Other Big, Round Things by Carolyn Mackler
Gossip Girl series by Ziegesar
The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini
The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman
Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
Harry Potter by J.K Rowling
Carrie by Stephen King
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Chocolate War by Robert Comier
Forever by Judy Blume