Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read.
American Libary Assocation
http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/banned
Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the
freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment.
Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week
highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while
drawing attention to the harms of censorship by
spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States.
http://www.ala.org
Common Sense Media.
Common Sense Media
http://www.commonsensemedia.org/
This site is an alternative for parents' concerned about
the suitability of books, web sites, and electronic games for their children.
This site emphasizes parental choice rather than censorship.
Eileen H. Kramer
Curlie -- Free Speech -- Censorship.
Curlie.org
http://www.curlie.org/Society/
Issues/Human_Rights_and
_Liberties/Free_Speech/
A listing of sites that cover censorship of books, articles, artwork, music, the internet and a few procensorship sites as well.
Eileen H. Kramer
Free Expression Policy Project.
Free Expression Policy Project
Available via Web.archive.org
The Free Expression Policy Project (FEPP), founded in 2000,
provides research and advocacy on free speech, copyright, and media democracy issues.
http://fepproject.org
Index on Censorship: Britain's Leading Organisation (sic) Promoting Freedom of Expression.
Index on Censorship
http://www.indexoncensorship.org
Provides up-to-the-minute news and information
on free expression from around the world.
http://www.indexoncensorship.org
Kennedy, Elizabeth
Book Censorship and Banning Children's Books.
About.com
https://www.thoughtco.com/
childrens-book-censorship-overview-626315
Describes the who, what, why, and where of "challenges" to
books in schools and public libraries.
Eileen H. Kramer
National Coalition Against Censorship.
National Coalition Against Censorship
http://www.ncac.org/index.php
The National Coalition Against Censorship, an alliance of
fifty-two participating organizations, is dedicated to
protecting free expression and access to information.
http://www.ncac.org/index.php
Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom Archive.
American Library Assocation Office of Intellectual Freedom
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/
nif/issue/archive
Top news on censorship attempts in libraries, by governments,
and on college campuses, as well as censorship, court cases.
Eileen H. Kramer
Protecting Your Family.
Focus on the Family.
https://www.focusonthefamily.com/
This section of the Evangelical Christian group's site offers suggestions for
family reading and other media in line with the group's religious and moral ideas.
It also details books and media that parents should
have their children avoid. The site makes little if any mention of censoring books
or challenging libary holdings.
Eileen H. Kramer
Each year well-meaning citizens challenge the material in libraries, worry over what might be published in student media, and sometimes want to restrict the content of music or video games. This display features banned books, books and web pages that discuss banned books, web sites that advocate against restrictions on free speech, and also sites that offer options for parents and individuals to make their own choices about what books they and their families read and what media they consume.
To see other displays stop by the DISPLAY ARCHIVE
Alexie, Sherman and Ellen Forney.
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.
New York: Little, Brown, 2007.
Call Number: PS3551.L35774 A27 2007
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian
Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school
where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
Source:
http://gilfind.gsu.edu
Angelou, Maya.
I Kno Why the Caged Bird Sings.
New York: Random House, 2002.
Call Number: PS3551.N464 Z466 2002
In the first volume of an extraordinary autobiographical
series, one of the most inspiring authors of our
time recalls--with candor, humor,
poignancy and grace--how her journey began....
Source:
http://www.loc.gov
Angelou, Maya and Mildred R. Mickle.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2010.
Call Number: PS3551.N464 Z696 2010
This title includes in-depth critical discussions of Maya
Angelou's novel. May Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings took the
world by storm when it was published in 1969.
Source:
http://www.flipkart.com
Boyle, T. Coraghessan.
Tortilla Curtain
New York: Penguin, 1996.
Call Number: PS3552.O932 T67 1996
Boyle's latest concerns two couples in Southern California, one a pair of
wealthy suburbanites, the other illegal immigrants from Mexico.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
Burroughs, Augusten.
Running with Scissors.
New York: St. Martin's, 2002.
Call Number: PS3552.U745 Z477 2006
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose
mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave
him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a
dead-ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain.
Source:
http://www.loc.gov
Cast, P. C. and Kristin Cast
Marked.
New York: St. Martin's, 2007.
Call Number: PS3603 .A869 M37 2007
The House of Night series is set in a world very much
like our own, except in 16-year-old Zoey Redbird's world,
vampires have always existed. In this first book in the series,
Zoey enters the House of Night, a school where, after
having undergone the Change, she will train to become
an adult vampire--that is, if she makes it through the Change.
Source:
http://www.worldcat.org
Chobsky, Stephen.
Perks of Being a Wallflower.
New York: MTV Books, 1999.
Call Number: PS3553.H3469 P47 1999
This is the story of what it's like to grow up in high school.
More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters are singular and
unique, hilarious and devastating. We may not know where
he lives. We may not know to whom he is writing. All
we know is the world he shares.
Source:
http://www.loc.gov
Crutcher, Chris.
Deadline.
York: Greenwillow Books, 2007.
Call Number: PZ7.C89 De 2007
Given the medical diagnosis of one year to live, high school senior Ben
Wolf decides to fulfill his greatest fantasies, ponders his life's
purpose and legacy, and converses through dreams with a
spiritual guide known as "Hey-Soos."
Source:
http://www.worldcat.org
Drill, Esther and Heather McDonald.
Deal with It: A Whole New Approach to your Body, Brain, and Life as a Gurl.
New York: Pocket Books, 1999.
Call Number: HQ798 .D75 1999
The birds and bees have never been so hip, thanks to Esther Drill, Heather McDonald,
and Rebecca Odes, creators of gURL.com and authors of Deal with It! A Whole
New Approach to Your Body, Brain and Life as a gURL.
http://www.amazon.com
Ehrenreich, Barbara.
Nickel and Dimed.
New York: Henry Holt, 2002.
Call Number: HD4918 .E375 2002
Funny, poignant, and passionate, this revelatory firsthand
account of life in low-wage America—the story of Barbara
Ehrenreich’s attempts to eke out a living while
working as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner,
nursing-home aide, and Wal-Mart associate—has become
an essential part of the nation’s political discourse.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
Foerstel, Herbert N.
Banned in the U.S.A.: A Reference Guide to Book Cenorship in Schools and Public Libraries.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.
Call Number: Z658.U5 F64 1994
Virtually every aspect of book censorship,
from its historical inception, to current trends and
cases is examined in this up-to-date, comprehensive, \
and readable survey and reference source.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
Frank, Anne.
Anne Frank: Dairy of a Young Girl.
New York: Bantaom Books, 1967.
Call Number: DS135.N6 F73313 1993
Anne Frank received a blank diary on her 13th birthday, just weeks
before she and her family went into hiding in Nazi-occupied
Amsterdam. Her marvelously detailed, engagingly personal
entries chronicle 25 trying months of claustrophobic, quarrelsome intimacy...
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
Fuentes, Carlos.
Aura.
Mexico: Edicaiones Era, 1971.
Call Number: PQ7297.F793 A85 1971
Felipe Montero is employed in the house of an aged
widow to edit her deceased husband's memoirs.
There Felipe meets her beautiful green-eyed niece, Aura. His
passion for Aura and his gradual discovery of the true
relationship between the young woman and her aunt
propel the story to its extraordinary conclusion.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
Hahn, Mary Downing.
Dead Man in Indian Creek.
s.l.: Paw Prints, 2008.
Call Number: PZ7.H1256 Dd 1990
When Matt and Parker learn the body they found in
Indian Creek is a drug-related death,
they fear Parker's mother may be involved.
Source:
http://www.worldcat.org
Hartinger, Brent.
Geography Club.
New York: Harper, 2003.
Call Number: PZ7.H2635 Ge 2003
A group of gay and lesbian teenagers finds mutual support when they
form the "Geography Club" at their high school.
Source:
http://www.worldcat.org
Hemingway, Ernest.
Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway.
New York: Scribner, 2003.
Call Number: PS3515.E37 A15 1998
The subtitle of this monumental collection refers to
the home (Lookout Farm) that Hemingway owned in Cuba from 1939
to 1959. That time frame accounts for most of the
short fiction, published and unpublished, that followed the
major collection issued in 1938, The First Forty-Nine. There are 60 stories in all.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
Irving, John.
Prayer for Owen Meany.
New York: Morrow, 1989.
Call Number: PS3559.R8 P7 1989
Owen Meany is a dwarfish boy with a strange voice
who accidentally kills his best friend's mom with a
baseball and believes--accurately--that he is an
instrument of God, to be redeemed by martyrdom.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
Johnson, Maureen.
Bermudez Triangle.
New York: Razorbill, 2004.
Call Number: PZ7.J634145 Be 2004
The friendship of three high school girls and their relationships
with their friends and families are tested
when two of them fall in love with each other.
Source:
http://www.worldcat.org
Karolides, Nicholas J. and Margaret Bald.
100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature.
New York: Checkmark Books, 1999.
Call Number: Z658.U5 K35 1999
By limiting the texts under consideration to 100, the
authors are able to provide highly detailed accounts of each
title's censorship history in what is surely the
most exhaustive single-volume reference available.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
Kingsolver, Barbara.
Bean Trees.
New York: Harper, 1998.
Call Number: PS3561.I496 B44 1998
Young, bright Taylor Greer leaves her poverty-stricken life
in Kentucky and heads west, picking up an
abandoned Native American baby girl whom she
names Turtle and finds a new home in Tucson with
Mattie, an old woman who takes in Central American refugees.
Source:
http://gilfind.gsu.edu
Lee, Harper.
To Kill a Mockingbird.
New York: Harper, 1995.
Call Number: PS3562.E353 T6 1995
Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the
Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in
the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their
father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and
eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
Mead, Richelle.
Vampire Academy.
New York: Razorbill, 2007.
Call Number: PS3613.E1275 V36 2007
Two years after a horrible incident made them run away,
vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-training Rose
are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where
one focuses on mastering magic, the other on
physical training, while both try to avoid the perils
of gossip, cliques, gruesome pranks, and sinister plots.
Source:
http://gilfind.gsu.edu
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.
Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 2003.
Call Number: PE1628 .M36 2003
For this new edition, America’s largest staff of lexicographers made
more than 100,000 changes and added more than 10,000 new words
and senses, such as "convergence," "Frankenfood,"
"phat," "psyops," and "vermiculture."
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
Meyer, Stephenie.
Breaking Dawn.
New York: Little Brown, 2008.
Call Number: PS3613.E979 B74 2008
Although eighteen-year-old Bella joins the dark but seductive world
of the immortals by marrying Edward the vampire, her connection
to the powerful werewolf Jacob remains unsevered.
Source:
http://gilfind.gsu.edu
Meyer, Stephenie.
Eclipse.
New York: Little Brown, 2007.
Call Number: PZ7.M5717515 Ec 2007
Bella must choose between her friendship with Jacob, a werewolf, and her
relationship with Edward, a vampire, but when Seattle is ravaged by
a mysterious string of killings, the three of them need to
decide whether their personal lives are more important than
the well-being of an entire city.
Source:
http://www.worldcat.org
Meyer, Stephenie.
New Moon.
New York: Little Brown, 2008.
Call Number: PS3613.E979 N49 2008
When her beloved Edward and his family leave Forks rather than
risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for
Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob, until
he starts changing in terrible ways.
Source:
http://gilfind.gsu.edu
Meyer, Stephenie.
Twilight.
New York: Little Brown, 2008.
Call Number: PS3613.E979 T95 2008
When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in
Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school
for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to
realize is not wholly human.
Source:
http://gilfind.gsu.edu
Morrison, Toni.
Song of Solomon.
New York: Vintage International, 2004.
Call Number: PS3563.O8749 S6 2004
Macon Dead, Jr., called Milkman, son of the
richest Negro in town, moves from childhood into early manhood,
searching, among the disparate, mysterious members
of his family, for his life and reality.
Source:
http://gilfind.gsu.edu
Noble, William.
Bookbanning in America: Who Bans Books? and Why?
Middlebury, VT: P.S. Eriksson, 1990.
Call Number: Z658.U5 N6 1990
Timed to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the Bill of Rights,
the publication of this title strikes a warning note to book lovers across
the nation: censorship flourished in 1990 as it has since
the 1650 Boston book burnings. Noble writes that
nearly 1000 book bannings arise each year,
with recent school library cases increasing
nearly 200% in the 1980s.
Source:
http://wwww.amazon.com
Richardson, Justin and Peter Parnell.
And Tango Makes Three.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.
Call Number: PZ10.3.R414 Tan 2005
At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins
fall in love and start a family by taking
turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches.
Source:
http://gilfind.gsu.edu
Seierstad, Asne and Ingrid Christophersen.
Bookseller of Kabul.
Boston: Little, Brown, 2003.
Call Number: CT1877.5.K48 S45 2003
The Norwegian journalist provides a portrait of a committed
Muslim man and his family living in post-Taliban Kabul, Afghanistan.
Source:
http://gilfind.gsu.edu
Wachsberger, Ken.
Banned Books.
New York: Facts on File, 2006.
Call Number: Z658.U5 B35 2006
The entries, which include a summary, censorship history, and brief
bibliography, range widely from Aristotle through Galileo and on up to
Adolf Hitler and Judy Blume. Such well-known prohibited works
as de Sade's 120 Days of Sodom, the Communist Manifesto,
and Huckleberry Finn are included here, but so
are many other works that are now less controversial.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
Walker, Margaret.
Jubilee.
New York: Bantam Books, 1967.
Call Number: PS3545.A517 J8 1967
Here is the classic--and true--story of Vyry, the child of a white
plantation owner and his black mistress, a Southern Civil War
heroine to rival Scarlett O'Hara. Vyry bears witness to the
South's prewar opulence and its brutality, to
its wartime ruin and the subsequent promise of Reconstruction.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com
Walls, Jeanette.
Glass Castle.
New York: Scribner, 2005.
Call Number: HV5132 .W35 2005
The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother
discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she
and her siblings fended for themselves while their
parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities.
Source:
http://gilfind.gsu.edu
