Keep Reading Banned Books

In celebration of Banned Books week, library staff posed for photos with the top ten challenged books of 2010.
#6 Lush by Natasha FriendReasons: drugs, sexually explicit, offensive language, unsuited to age group













#8 Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Reasons: drugs, inaccurate, offensive language, political viewpoint, religious viewpoint


You can buy many of the banned books in the Friends' Bookstore.

Banned Book Week

How many of the Banned Book Posters have you spotted in the Library? How many have you seen online? Katherine did a great job capturing the favourites of some of the Library staff, in front of our new skyway mural. Ginny has done an excellent job of creating so many of our Read Posters! We are lucky to have such talented staff (and such great readers!).
How many banned books have you read? (now aren't you glad the highschool teachers made you read some of them??!)

Banned Books Week Sept. 24 - Oct. 1

Here is the list of the top 10 challenged books for 2010 and a nice poster to go along with it.
And Tango Makes Three
by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
Reasons: homosexuality, religious viewpoint, unsuited to age group
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie
Reasons: offensive language, racism, religious viewpoint, sex education, sexually explicit, violence, unsuited to age group
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
Reasons: insensitivity, offensive language, racism, sexually explicit
Crank
by Ellen Hopkins
Reasons: drugs, offensive language, racism, sexually explicit
The Hunger Games (series)
by Suzanne Collins
Reasons: sexually explicit, violence, unsuited to age group
Lush
by Natasha Friend
Reasons: drugs, sexually explicit, offensive language, unsuited to age group
What My Mother Doesn’t Know
by Sonya Sones
Reasons: sexism, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Reasons: drugs, inaccurate, offensive language, political viewpoint, religious viewpoint
Revolutionary Voices
edited by Amy Sonnie
Reasons: homosexuality, sexually explicit
Twilight (series)
by Stephanie Meyer
Reasons: sexually explicit, religious viewpoint, violence, unsuited to age group

Banned Books Week

You would simply be amazed at the number of everyday books, classics and childrens fiction (including Harry Potter) that are considered BANNED BOOKS. The Library staff is highlighting the top ten banned books for the 2010/11 period. Check out all the posters in the Library, then check out the books! Don't just celebrate your right to read, exercise your reading rights! 

The Friends will have a display case with some of the 100 most challenged books, and the reasons for banning them, as well as books for sale in the Bookstore.