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Puppylov3
Member
01-26-2004
| Friday, May 07, 2004 - 5:36 am
dang I hate picking one book - so I'm not. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan (which I read as an adult but enjoyed) Ordinary People by Judith Guest The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Friday, May 07, 2004 - 9:40 am
Who..here are a few links with some interesting articles: http://www.adlerbooks.com/banned.html http://archive.aclu.org/issues/freespeech/bbwind.html http://www.forbiddenlibrary.com/ http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bannedbooksweek.htm
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Lucy_dreams
Member
07-28-2004
| Monday, August 16, 2004 - 5:58 pm
My kids have also read lots of these books. A lot of favorites from my childhood are on here and a lot of them are still on the shelves in my kids rooms. I love Katherine Patterson I took my children to a book signing of hers once. My daughter was as excited standing in that line waiting to meet her and get her signed copy of Bridge to Terabithia, as she was getting to see NSYNC in concert! I had my old tattered copy in my coat pocket that I was going to bring out and show her, and then I didn't. One of those things you think about and then don't do and wish you had. Silly me. The Catcher in the Rye and Bridge to Terabithia are two of my all time favorites.
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Danas15146
Member
03-31-2004
| Saturday, October 02, 2004 - 2:06 pm
I have alot of the Judy Blume books put away for Samantha. And the Outsiders was my favorite book growing up. Where are these banned?? I missed something....
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Saturday, October 02, 2004 - 5:22 pm
I'm using Harry Potter #5 to do an Altered book of the various banned books as well as those that are merely "challenged." Of course, I haven't figured our which sections of the Bible to include. I'll be doing one side of the spread with the cover (if possible) the publication date, where and why it was banned, etc. The other side will have passages from the book. I'm going to drill the cover and put jump rings in the holes, and then use a plant extending chains to run through the jump rings and then padlock them closed. For the cover decoration, I'm going to use a poster from the ALA and then obtain CAUTION tape to glue onto it. It's a big project, but i sent the ALA a letter explaining my project and asking for as many visual images as they can send me. As a Witch, I love that they banned the Potter books for promoting and teaching magic and the black arts. The similarity would be the same as Tome Brown's School Days being a primer for British public school education from yesteryear.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Monday, October 04, 2004 - 9:44 am
My mother always said that she liked it when they tried to ban a book in our town....it meant that we would be asking her to buy it for us! Our parents said that we could read anything growing up, as long as they knew what we were reading. That was a good rule...it kept us talking about books and kept them monitoring things without us even being aware of it. We grew up thinking different opinions were OK and not a threat... and when all was said and done, overall it is our parent's views that we live by as adults. I (their rebel child) would be very different today if there had been books forbidden to me.
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Neko
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, October 11, 2004 - 3:21 pm
Funny, we read "Flowers for Algernon" in grade 11 at my school. "Fahrenheit 451" in grade 10... "Lord of the Flies" in grade 12, "The Edible Woman" as well (Though it's not on there..it might as well be if there going to put up "Goosebumps"..Hahaha) My young impressionable mind just couldn't handle it all I guess my school's a big rebel when it comes to banned books ^_^
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Djgirl
Member
07-17-2002
| Tuesday, October 12, 2004 - 9:38 am
Neko - it's not just your school, it's most of Canada. There's a really good site for Canadian's who wish to see our "Banned" list - although, it's mainly the ones that were once banned but no longer are. www.freedomtoread.ca
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Meli456
Member
05-01-2003
| Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 1:17 am
I never saw this thread before! Now I know why I came out so... umm... well-rounded? I'm a bibliophile, so I love lots of books. My favorites from that list ::sigh:: Of Mice and Men, A Wrinkle in Time, The Outsiders and okay, I love Larry Potter
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 9:10 am
The Chocolate War was GREAT. Probably my favourite on this list, but I've only read the ones listed below. It's shocking, that MANY of these are ones I was assigned in school, or just read as a kid. Minus the Stephen King of course; those I borrowed from my mom. lol Here is another site, where you can find online versions of most of the books that have been banned/questioned. Banned Books On-line 3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou 4. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier 5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 9. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson 13. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 17. A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck 18. The Color Purple by Alice Walker 19. Sex by Madonna 22. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle 27. The Witches by Roald Dahl 29. Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry 32. Blubber by Judy Blume 37. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood 41. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 43. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton 44. The Pigman by Paul Zindel 47. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 51. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein 52. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 55. Cujo by Stephen King 56. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl 60. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis 62. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume 69. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 70. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 77. Carrie by Stephen King 78. Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume 83. The Dead Zone by Stephen King 84. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 96. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
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Meli456
Member
05-01-2003
| Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 1:33 pm
All I really want to know is why "Where's Waldo?" Because that particular book actively helps to develop critical thinking skills?
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Monday, February 07, 2005 - 4:41 pm
I think I read upthread that "Where's Waldo" occasionally features topless female sunbathers in its pictures.
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Carrly
Member
09-28-2000
| Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 10:11 pm
Has anyone checked out Google's new section that has a lot of books that you can read online? I think they are from 10 universities and they have a giant copy machine that copies 10,000 pages a minute or some outlandish amount. I am sure some of these books are on there. I must admit, I have read almost every one of these "banned books". I just have to ask, where are they banned? I can remember when I was a teen-ager in the 60's, that in our library, there was a glass case with a lock on it that only the librarian had a key to. It was supposed to have inappropriate books in it and we would try to sneak peeks and the librarian would discourage anyone from going near it. I just wonder what books were in there! Probably a few on this list!
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