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AzkaBanned Books – Banned Books and Intellectual Freedom

Posted on September 24th, 2017

Our Harry Potter: Celebrating a Phenomenon exhibit happily coincides with Banned Books Week, September 24-30. So what do Harry Potter and Banned Books have in common? Harry Potter has faced many challenges in school and public libraries over the past twenty years. Fortunately, in more recent years, critics have left Harry Potter alone, but other books have taken its place on the top ten challenged books of the year. Books receive challenges for a variety of reasons, the most common being religion, sex, language, or even just encouraging young readers to disrespect their elders.

Come to the Marvin Foyer to look at a variety of children’s titles that have been challenged over the years. Exercise your first amendment rights and check out a banned book.

  • Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn,
  • Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
  • 813 T911h
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  • Al Capone Does My Shirts
  • Choldenko, Gennifer, 1957-
  • 813 C453al
  • summary | details
  • Among the Hidden
  • Haddix, Margaret Peterson,
  • 813 H117aml
  • summary | details
  • And Tango Makes Three
  • Richardson, Justin, 1963-
  • 800 R394tan
  • summary | details
  • Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
  • Blume, Judy.
  • 813 B6255a
  • summary | details
  • Attack Of the Mutant Underwear
  • Birdseye, Tom.
  • 813 B532at
  • summary | details
  • Boy Who Lost His Face
  • Sachar, Louis, 1954-
  • 813 Sa14boy
  • summary | details
  • Bridge to Terabithia
  • Paterson, Katherine.
  • 813 P273bri
  • summary | details
  • Call It Courage
  • Sperry, Armstrong, 1897-1976,
  • 813 Sp3c
  • summary | details
  • Censorship in Schools
  • Sherrow, Victoria.
  • 025.213 Sh57ce
  • summary | details
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  • Dahl, Roald.
  • 823 D1375c
  • summary | details
  • Crow Boy
  • Yashima, Tarō, 1908-1994.
  • 823.9 Y264cro
  • summary | details
  • Daddy’s Roommate
  • Willhoite, Michael, 1946-
  • 800 W669d 2000
  • summary | details
  • Drowning Of Stephan Jones
  • Greene, Bette, 1934-
  • 813 G832dro
  • summary | details
  • Eleanor & Park: [a Novel]
  • Rowell, Rainbow.
  • 813 R795el 2013
  • summary | details
  • Fat Kid Rules the World
  • Going, K. L. (Kelly L.)
  • 813 G561fat
  • summary | details
  • Girls and Sex
  • Pomeroy, Wardell Baxter.
  • 613.9 P7716g
  • summary | details
  • Halloween a B C
  • Merriam, Eve, 1916-1992.
  • 811 M551ha
  • summary | details
  • Heather Has Two Mommies
  • Newman, Lesléa.
  • 800 N465hea
  • summary | details
  • It’s Perfectly Normal: A Book About Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health
  • Harris, Robie H.
  • 613.9 H243i
  • summary | details
  • Mommy Laid an Egg!: Or Where Do Babies Come From?
  • Cole, Babette.
  • 649 C674m
  • summary | details
  • My Brother Sam Is Dead
  • Collier, James Lincoln, 1928-
  • 813 C69m
  • summary | details
  • My Darling, My Hamburger: A Novel
  • Zindel, Paul.
  • 813 Z66m
  • summary | details
  • Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep
  • Prelutsky, Jack.
  • 811 P915ni
  • summary | details
  • Places I Never Meant to Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers
  • 813 B6255pl
  • summary | details
  • Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry
  • Taylor, Mildred D.,
  • 813 T2162r 2001
  • summary | details
  • Story Of Little Black Sambo
  • Bannerman, Helen, 1862-1946.
  • 813 B22slbs
  • summary | details
  • Strega Nona: An Old Tale
  • DePaola, Tomie, 1934-
  • 800 D44s
  • summary | details
  • Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
  • Steig, William, 1907-2003.
  • 800 St33syl
  • summary | details
  • Teaching Banned Books: 12 Guides for Young Readers
  • Scales, Pat.
  • Z1019 .S33 2001
  • summary | details
  • Then Again, Maybe I Won’t: A Novel
  • Blume, Judy.
  • 813 B6255th
  • summary | details
  • There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom
  • Sachar, Louis, 1954-
  • 813 Sa14the
  • summary | details
  • Vegan Virgin Valentine
  • Mackler, Carolyn.
  • 813 M218veg
  • summary | details
  • What My Mother Doesn’t Know
  • Sones, Sonya.
  • 813 So57wha
  • summary | details
  • What’s Happening to My Body? Book for Boys: The New Growing-up Guide for Parents and Sons
  • Madaras, Lynda.
  • 613.953 M261wha
  • summary | details
  • What’s Happening to My Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-up Guide for Parents and Daughters
  • Madaras, Lynda.
  • 613.955 M261wha
  • summary | details
  • Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems & Drawings Of Shel Silverstein.
  • Silverstein, Shel,
  • 811.54 Si394w 2004
  • summary | details
  • Where the Wild Things Are.
  • Sendak, Maurice.
  • 800 Se55w
  • summary | details
  • You Know You Love Me: A Gossip Girl Novel
  • Von Ziegesar, Cecily.
  • 813 V897yo
  • summary | details

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