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Banned Books Week (Sept 29-Oct 6)

Banned Books Week is Sept. 29-Oct. 6, 2007.

2007 Banned Books Week: Ahoy! Treasure Your Freedom to Read and Get Hooked on a Banned Book

Have you read any of these? They are the most-challenged titles from 2000-2005.

  1. Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
  2. "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
  3. Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
  4. "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
  5. "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
  6. "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
  7. "It's Perfectly Normal" by Robie Harris
  8. Scary Stories series by Alvin Schwartz
  9. Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey
  10. "Forever" by Judy Blume

Cherish your freedom to read! Why is this so important?

As the author of Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, said, "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."

More information about Banned Books Week is online at http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bannedbooksweek.htm

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