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Your Favorite Banned Book?

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Puppylov3
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01-26-2004

Friday, May 07, 2004 - 5:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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



Rupertbear
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09-19-2003

Friday, May 07, 2004 - 9:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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

Lucy_dreams
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07-28-2004

Monday, August 16, 2004 - 5:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Danas15146
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03-31-2004

Saturday, October 02, 2004 - 2:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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....

Lkunkel
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10-29-2003

Saturday, October 02, 2004 - 5:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Yesitsme
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08-24-2004

Monday, October 04, 2004 - 9:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Neko
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08-03-2001

Monday, October 11, 2004 - 3:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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 ^_^

Djgirl
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07-17-2002

Tuesday, October 12, 2004 - 9:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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

Meli456
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05-01-2003

Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 1:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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


Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 9:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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


Meli456
Member

05-01-2003

Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 1:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
All I really want to know is why "Where's Waldo?"

Because that particular book actively helps to develop critical thinking skills?

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Monday, February 07, 2005 - 4:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think I read upthread that "Where's Waldo" occasionally features topless female sunbathers in its pictures.

Carrly
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09-28-2000

Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 10:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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!