Banned Books Week
This is a week in September that celebrates books that have been challenged.
What is Banned Books Week?
These are the materials that make up the bulk of libraries circulating items.
What are Books?
This is a book challenged for obscenity because the title character is a grown man in his tighty-whiteys.
What is Captain Underpants?
This book was a top ten challenged book for several years after Netflix adapted it for TV and parents became concerned it glorified suicide because a character leaves a series of tapes behind after dying from suicide.
What is the Thirteen Reasons Why?
A popular trilogy of books that became an even more popular movie series, this book has been called an abusive fairy tale because of its bdsm themes.
What is Fifty Shades of Grey?
These are the dates of this year’s Banned Books Week.
What is September 22-28, 2019?
The is the animal mascot of the El Paso Public Library.
What is an owl?
This is a famous children’s author frequently challenged for making up words such as sneezles and promoting "violence" against fathers in the funny book, Hop on Pop.
Who is Dr. Seuss?
A popular movie saga starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart whose books have been challenged for several reasons but most commonly challengers have cited religious beliefs because it has vampire characters.
What is Twilight?
Renewed interest in this book due to its popular Hulu adaptation, this book has been challenged because of its anti-Christian overtones in the country of Gilead written by Margaret Atwood.
What is the Handmaid’s Tale?
This is the word that describes when books are removed from public circulation due to a group’s objection.
What is censorship?
The El Paso Public Library has this many branches.
What is 12?
This is a Classic book written by Mark Twain was challenged for obscene language because the boy is traveling with an African American man who is often referred to by the N word.
What is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
Another popular movie series starring Jennifer Lawrence, this book was challenged for promoting violence against kids.
What is the Hunger Games?
Adapted into a powerful movie starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton, this book written by Chuck Palahniuk has been challenged because it promotes violence between men.
What is Fight Club?
This is the year that Banned Books Week was first launched.
What is 1982?
This library in Washington D. C. is the largest library in the world with 168 million items.
What is the Library of Congress?
This is a children’s chapter book challenged because it deals with death when the main character’s best friend drowns in the river. It was adapted into a movie starring Josh Hutcherson.
What is the Bridge to Terabithia?
This book written by Stephen Chbosky was also made into a movie starring Emma Watson and has been challenged due to profanity and sexual content.
What is the Perks of Being a Wallflower?
Not only a banned book itself, this book is about a future where the fire department tracks down books and burns them. It was adapted into an HBO TV movie starring Michael B. Jordan.
What is Fahrenheit 451?
This is the theme for this year’s Banned Books Week.
What is Censorship Leaves Us in the Dark?
This is the month when Banned Books Week happens but also Library Card Sign-Up Month.
What is September?
This is a book challenged for LGBTQ themes because the title character is a girl in a boy’s body. It was also the number one most challenged book of 2018.
What is George?
A classic often taught in most High Schools, this book by J.D. Salinger was banned between 1960 and 1980 because it was considered communist propaganda.
What is the Catcher in the Rye?
Written by Adolf Hitler during his imprisonment prior to the Holocaust, it is no wonder that this book is often challenged, but even this book should be protected against censorship.
What is Mein Kampf?