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Teacher Suspended for Teaching “Freedom Writers”
The Chancellor's New Clothes | July 24th 2008 by avoicein
I’ve never been a fan of what I refer to as the teacher-hero genre - inner city teacher works against huge odds and changes the lives of the poor kids in the ghetto - simply because I find it slightly hypocritical. Our society seems loathe to p read more
Banned Books Bracelet
Toxiferous Designs | July 21st 2008 by tox iferous
This banned books bracelet is one of the coolest bracelets I've seen in a long time and it's a wonderful way to advertise that you don't discriminate when it comes to your reading materials! read more
Stuart Little Was a Banned Book
Rebecca Reads | July 16th 2008 by Rebecca Reid
The New Yorker has an interesting article this week about the development of literature for children and E.B. White’s writing of Stuart Little. Did you know that after it was published in 1945, Stuart Little was banned by many libraries? I have read more
Burning Books
R.W Ridley | June 7th 2008 by R.W. Ridley
I’ve been obsessing a bit about the subject of banning books ever since the mother on Amazon said she wanted to burn my book because she was so offended by the “Gross, Gore, Evil, Blood, Guts…” We all see the world differently, and I can’t read more
More Banned Books
Texeira Life | June 6th 2008 by Robin
Absolutely incredible. In the comment I left for the secret poster on banned books, I wondered if Lord of the Rings had ever been banned. I decided to search & this was the first thing I found: Lord of the Rings, By J.R.R. Tolkien: 2001 - Bu read more
BANNED BOOKS AGAIN!!
Texeira Life | June 5th 2008 by Robin
Hello all you fellow blog readers first of all i wanted to state this is not RMT. You have to guess who this is and Robin you cant tell them! I just wanted to post about the banned books and give you the info i have about it (which isn't much). So I' read more
Banned Books
Texeira Life | May 31st 2008 by Robin
I found this list on the Simply Bluestocking blog and thought I'd share it. (Note: the blog author was NOT advocating banning books.) You can all go through & see how many of these you've read & write a nice, interesting post about it! There read more
Need Help Picking Out a Kid's Book, Choose a Banned Book
Mamita's Staying Home | May 8th 2008 by Vivian
A penguin with two daddies apparently tops the list of banned children's books. The fear is that young children will think that homosexuality is an acceptable lifestyle. Um, okay, or maybe they will learn about loving each other and caring for family read more
THE WORLD OF BOOKS
the world of | April 18th 2008 by satish
Find the world best classic books here ,Rare and old books are here for u (books gallery)Banned books also available here read more
Queer Eggs and Ham
Mombian | April 10th 2008
School administrators in Bristol, England have removed the books King & King and And Tango Makes Three, and the DVD That’s a Family from two primary schools. Some parents complained that they should have been consulted before LGBT-inclusiv read more
I’m It! I’m It!
The Goat's Lunch Pail | March 20th 2008
Michael at Avatar Lore tagged me for a most interesting meme the other day. The object of the game is to take a book of more than 123 pages then turn to page 123 and quote the first five sentences of same.The only quandary is what book to choose.My h read more
Today's Opinions
The Right to Say It! The Right to Read It! | March 17th 2008 by spkmymind2
One again, we find letters concerning TKR on the opinion page of the local paper. One, by Else Gottlieb, is well-thought and well-written even if I don't agree with her.The other letter falls on the side of sheer ridiculousness. Mr. Mike Higgins actu read more
People Are Reading
The Right to Say It! The Right to Read It! | March 9th 2008 by spkmymind2
I never thought I'd say this, but, "Thank you Tracy." You've actually inspired people to read. Now, I know you didn't mean to do that. But it has happened. By trying to keep TKR from 10th graders, you've exposed people both older and younger to this read more
My karma ran over your dogma.
The Right to Say It! The Right to Read It! | March 1st 2008 by spkmymind2
Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the free intellect. . . . A problem can no longer be pursued with impunity to its edges. Fear stalks the classroom. The teacher is no longer read more
Hey Tracy, Did you know . . .
The Right to Say It! The Right to Read It! | February 29th 2008 by spkmymind2
In 1987, a school system in Alaska banned the American Heritage Dictionary. Apparently, they thought their kids might learn some "bad words." Maybe you should find out who those people were and move to their town. I'll bake you a going-away cake.* read more
Another shocking book found in schools!
The Right to Say It! The Right to Read It! | February 26th 2008 by spkmymind2
My child came home the other day and told me the most shocking things. She said she had been reading a book that several other students at her school are also reading. In fact, she said that she was sure there was a copy of it in her school library read more
Bad Influences
The Right to Say It! The Right to Read It! | February 25th 2008 by spkmymind2
For those of you who are worried that our children might be harmed by reading, think about this quote from former NY mayor James Walker:"I never knew a girl who was ruined by a book."With all the issues our teens are facing (drug abuse, pregnancy, ph read more
Censorship and Obscenity
The Right to Say It! The Right to Read It! | February 25th 2008 by spkmymind2
The following paragraphs are taken from the American Library Association page about intellectual freedom. Using the Supreme Court's own guidelines, I don't see how anyone can findThe Kite Runner pornography and/or obscene.What Are The Most Frequentl read more
Some Commonly Banned Books
The Right to Say It! The Right to Read It! | February 24th 2008 by spkmymind2
BibleAdventures of Huckleberry FinnThe Lorax by Dr. SeussBridge to TeribithiaGoosebumps (series)The PigmanThe OutsidersWhere's Waldo read more
Freedom to Read Week
Reading Outside The Box | February 20th 2008 by Carrie
The other day I was thinking about books and how I take them for granted. I thought of life before the printing press, where people painstakingly copied text by hand. To own a book, one would need to be wealthy. Now we only need to pop into a loc read more
SBU’s Banned Books
The Library Club | January 25th 2008
The links on our banned book page have been fixed! Check it out and report any broken links. http://thelibraryclub.wordpress.com/sbus-banned-books/ Technorati Tags: SBU Library, Banned Books, The Library Club Add to: | Technorati | Digg read more
Halton Area Catholic School Board Values CENSORSHIP over Critical…
ThisCanadian | December 21st 2007
Halton Catholic school bans Canada can be proud: we're slowly churning our way back to bookburnings & witch drownings... congratulations, Catholics, you should be proud of yourselves for cringing in the face of children's books that teach critical read more
Banned Books
The Library Club | November 28th 2007
We have a new paged listing all the books in the SBU library that has been banned or challenged. Enjoy. http://thelibraryclub.wordpress.com/sbus-banned-books/ Let us know if we missed something. Censorship Banned Books SBU Library The Library Club read more
Darwin's Paradox: Book Signing at Chapters
The Alien Next Door | November 20th 2007 by Nina Munteanu
Yesterday's book signing at Chapters in Richmond, B.C. was incredibly fun and truly a blast! A second only to that kraglet swimsuit competition on Rigel 9. Despite the fact that I'd sold and published two books prior to "Darwin's Paradox", this was m read more
Give ’em hell, Pat
52 Novels. I counted them myself. | November 2nd 2007 by Rob in Denver
Pat Conroy had this to say about writing and reading and writers and teachers… and people who like to ban books: The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave anything out. I have read like a man on fire my whole life be read more
First Amendment and Banned Books
Books Without Limits | October 3rd 2007 by Leslie
How the first amendment helps fight banned books and ensure our freedom to read freely. Not many bookworms have time to think about what guarantees our freedom to read what we want, when want to read it, wherever we want to do so. There are so many c read more
Thought Banned
The Goat's Lunch Pail | October 2nd 2007
It’s Banned Books Week.Virginia Lee, over at her amazing blog wrote about it and included a few links like this one to the Forbidden Library.It was fascinating, in a chilling way, to read the titles of books that have been banned or challenged.The read more
Radcliffe 100 Has 42 Banned Books
Books Without Limits | October 2nd 2007 by Leslie
Out of the Top 100 books of the 20th Century as listed by the Radcliff Publishing Course, 42 are or have been on the banned or challenged book list. The 42 Banned or Challenged Books from the Radcliff Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Cent read more
Unshelved: Banned Book Week
Techfun | September 29th 2007 by JD
I liked today’s Unshelved. Seems a good topic choice for a strip to kick off Banned Books Week I’m really looking forward to this weeks Unshelved strips. If you like Unshelved, I’d recommend signing up for e-mail read more
Get your raunchy reading on!
Beyond the Reference Desk | September 28th 2007 by Bridget
Tomorrow marks the start of Banned Books Week. You know what that means? I’m going to spend the next week reading the raunchiest books ever - or just pick up a classic or two. Did you realize that some of the most amazing pieces of literature ever read more
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