Come by the library and check out the display of books that have been challenged or banned in schools and public libraries around the country. Some of them are recent publications, and others are classics of English literature. How many of them have you read?
The Twilight series, by Stephenie Meyer.
The Harry Potter series, by J.K. Rowling.
My Sister’s Keeper, by Jodi Piccoult.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain.
The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger.
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee.
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker.
The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding.
A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway.
The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison.
The Call of the Wild, by Jack London.
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley.
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, by Julia Alvarez.
For more information about banned books, for a list of banned and challenged classics, and for lists broken down by school years and decades, see http://www.ala.org/bbooks/.
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