Banned Books Week
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This is a week in September that celebrates the first amendment and the right to read books, even if others don't approve of them and challenge them.
What is Banned Books Week?
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This type of materials that make up the bulk of libraries loan out or circulate items.
What are Books?
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This is a book challenged for obscenity because the title character is a grown man in hisunderwear.
What is Captain Underpants?
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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 Thirteen Reasons Why?
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Although this novel won a Pulitzer Prize, the book was challenged due to "inappropriate language, graphic sexual scenes, and the book's negative image of black men."
What is The Color Purple?
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These are the dates of this year’s Banned Books Week.
What is September 26-Oct 2, 2021?
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The number of books in the Indian land High library media center.
What is 11,000?
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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?
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This book was challenged for profanity, and because it was thought to promote an anti-police message. It was adapted into a movie starring Amanda Steinburg.
What is The Hate You Give?
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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?
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The suppression of ideas and information that certain persons — individuals, groups, or government officials — find objectionable or dangerous.
What is censorship?
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The Lancaster Public Library has this many branches.
What is 3?
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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?
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Another popular movie series starring Jennifer Lawrence, this book was challenged for promoting violence against kids.
What is the Hunger Games?
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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?
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This is the year that Banned Books Week was first launched.
What is 1982?
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This library in Washington D. C. is the largest library in the world with more than 168 million items.
What is the Library of Congress?
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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?
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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?
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Not only a banned book itself, but this book is also 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?
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This is the theme for this 2021’s Banned Books Week.
What is Books Unite Us, Censorship Divides Us?
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This is the month when Banned Books Week happens but also Library Card Sign-Up Month.
What is September?
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This is a book challenged for LGBTQ themes because the title character is a transgirl. It is also the number one most challenged book each year since it was published in 2018.
What is George or Melissa's Story?
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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?
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This book was burned in Alamagordo, NM (2001) outside Christ Community Church along with other Tolkien novels as satanic.
What is Lord of the Rings and other works by JRR Tolkien?