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From the Library: Banned Books Week

From the Library post by Ashley McAllister on September 26, 2010 - 4:23pm; tagged and tango makes three, anne frank, banned books, banned books week, Bitch Community Lending Library, censorship, From the Bitch Library, From the Library, Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak.


It's Banned Books Week, which means that schools and libraries across the US are rallying readers in order to celebrate access to information while bringing attention to the realities of censorship.

The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom received 460 reports on efforts to remove or restrict materials from school curricula and library bookshelves in 2009. Let's take a look at a few of the books that have been banned (or challenged) over the past few years.
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