It's Banned Books Week!
Banned Books Week celebrates our First Amendment rights and the freedom to read. Each year, hundreds of books are banned or challenged in schools and libraries by people who feel the books and/or information should be removed and no longer available to anyone. By reading banned books, you are celebrating your right to access information and challenging censorship.
Banned Books that may surprise you:
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See by Bill Martin Jr. (JE Martin)
- Where's Waldo by Martin Handford (JE Handford)
- Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (J811.54 Sil)
- Little Red Riding Hood by The Brothers Grimm (J398.2 Gri)
- And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson (JE Richardson)
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (J Twain)
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (YA Salinger)
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (YA Bradbury)
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitsgerald (YA Fitzgerald)
- Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (JE Sendak)
- Looking for Alaska by John Green (YA Green)
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (YA Alexie)
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (YA Green)
- Harry Potter by JK Rowling (YA Rowling)
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (YA Collins)
