Next week is Banned Books Week.
I’m going to celebrate by reading “I Am The Cheese” by Robert Cormier
Banned Books Week is the national book
community's annual celebration of the freedom to read. Hundreds of libraries
and bookstores around the country draw attention to the problem of censorship
by mounting displays of challenged books and hosting a variety of events. The
2012 celebration of Banned Books Week will be held from September 30 through
October 6. Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge
in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. More
than 11,300 books have been challenged since 1982. :
1.
ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series), by Lauren Myracle
Reasons: offensive language; religious
viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
2.
The Color of Earth (series), by Kim Dong Hwa
Reasons: nudity; sex education; sexually
explicit; unsuited to age group
3.
The Hunger Games trilogy, by Suzanne Collins
Reasons: anti-ethnic; anti-family;
insensitivity; offensive language; occult/satanic; violence
4.
My Mom's Having A Baby! A
Kid's Month-by-Month Guide to Pregnancy, by Dori
Hillestad Butler
Reasons: nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to
age group
5.
The Absolutely True Diary
of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman
Alexie
Reasons: offensive language; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually
explicit; unsuited to age group
6.
Alice (series), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Reasons: nudity; offensive
language; religious viewpoint
7.
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Reasons: insensitivity; nudity; racism; religious
viewpoint; sexually explicit
8.
What My Mother Doesn't Know, by Sonya Sones
Reasons: nudity; offensive language; sexually explicit
9.
Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily Von Ziegesar
Reasons: drugs; offensive language;
sexually explicit
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Reasons: offensive language; racism
PIYYSBURGH EVENTS
Thursday, September 27, 2012
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Join the ACLU, CLP and WYEP for this annual banned books
celebration at the Frick Fine Arts Building. The free program features:
*Jeremy Braverman,
independent Filmmaker
*Dr. Goddess (Kimberly Ellis), writer,
entertainer,entrepreneur, scholar, activist
*Kathleen George & Hilary Masters,
novelists, professors, married…to each other
*Reggie Shuford, Executive Director of the ACLU of PA,
reading In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
*Virginia Montanez, aka Pitt Girl, Blogger,"at’s
Church, Pittsburgh Magazine columnist
*Gemini Children's Theater, performing a scene from The
Wizard of Oz
... and more!
PLUS: ( Avert your eyes! ) A Short History of BANNED ART
Free and Open to the Public
Event web site: http://www.aclupa.org/freadom
Presented by: ACLU
Location:
Frick Fine Arts Building
Schenley Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
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