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Banned Books Week
By Alicia Waters | October 2, 2009
“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.”-cited from the American Library Association website.
Below are books featured in ContentWire from OverDrive, a distributor of digital content for libraries. E-Zone is Rhode Island’s Overdrive source for downloadable titles through Ocean State Libraries (OSL), a consortium providing 4.5 million items in 50 library systems in Rhode Island. These books are also available as cassettes through Talking Books Plus.
The words in this posting, American Library Association website, E-Zone, and Talking Books Plus, have links to other webpages.
BANNED CLASSICS – Banned for its themes of sexuality, drugs and suicide
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley RC47108
1984 by George Orwell RC34268
Lord of the Flies by William Golding RC48388
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck RC68308
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner RC49008
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut RC64540
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain RC57349
TEEN TITLES – Banned for offensive language, being sexually explicit and age-inappropriate
Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher RC52057
Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden RC21438
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier RC33593
Prep by Curtis Sittenfield RC59891
Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher RC38285
CHILDREN’S – Banned for political and religious viewpoints and violence
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman RC44343
The Witches by Roald Dahl RC46021
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle RC48972
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson RC51866
On, The Places You’ll Go by Seuss RC30795
The Lorax by Seuss RC31231
Sylvester & the Magic Pebble by Wiliam Steig RC50353
How To Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell RC33534
The Amazing Bone by William Steig RC53092
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak RC22906
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak RC43615
LITERATURE – Banned for obscene language and themes
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov RC67388
Ordinary People by Judith Guest RC10149
Rabbit, Run by John Updike RC15182
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown RC55735
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving RC29012
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice RC40643
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett RC30999
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou RC57200
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini RC57457
Beloved by Toni Morrison RC26026
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