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Molly


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We're missing Banned Books Week!!!!
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Banned Books Week 2005 started last saturday, I can't believe I've been missing it! Well, I am reading Harry Potter, so I guess I am making my contribution, but still.

The top 10 most challenged books in 2004 were:
"The Chocolate War" for sexual content, offensive language, religious viewpoint, being unsuited to age group and violence
"Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers, for racism, offensive language and violence
"Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture" by Michael A. Bellesiles, for inaccuracy and political viewpoint
Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey, for offensive language and modeling bad behavior
"The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky, for homosexuality, sexual content and offensive language
"What My Mother Doesn't Know" by Sonya Sones, for sexual content and offensive language
"In the Night Kitchen" by Maurice Sendak, for nudity and offensive language
"King & King" by Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland, for homosexuality
"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou, for racism, homosexuality, sexual content, offensive language and unsuited to age group
"Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck, for racism, offensive language and violence

For more infomation: ALA Banned Books Week

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Of Mice and Men

This book goes way back. Didn't we all read it in high school? And is it not also considered a classic?

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Molly


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Huckleberry Finn used to be on that list too.

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Of Mice and Men?? wow!!

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