Banned Books
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Pop Culture Librarians
Did They Even Read the Book?
100
This magical series was the most challenged of the past decade.
What is Harry Potter?
100
This award is presented to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished contribution to the body of American children’s literature known as beginning reader books published in the United States during the preceding year.
What is the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award?
100
These two colors are the official ABA colors.
What are Royal Purple and White?
100
This Librarian will make you want to buff up on your knowledge of dangerous mythical creatures.
Who is Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
100
This 2006 movie has a boy find a dragon and go on adventures.
What is Eragon?
200
Banned Books Week is in this month.
What is September?
200
In Darkness is the 2013 winner of this award.
What is the Michael L. Printz Award?
200
____, _____, ______, ______ is the ABA motto.
What is Books, Service, People, Life?
200
If you don’t return your overdue books, you might just find yourself facing both a librarian’s wrath and a batarang.
Who is Barbra Gordon aka Batgirl?
200
This 2009 movie has a girl looking for her father, who has been kidnapped into a book.
What is Inkheart?
300
This book is the most frequent book to be challenged or banned.
What is The Great Gatsby?
300
This award is presented to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
What is the Newbery Award?
300
This white flower is the official ABA flower.
What is a rose?
300
This librarian might just put a curse on you if you deface her books.
Who is Madam Pince from Harry Potter?
300
This 2004 movie was truly unfortunate, as they mashed three books worth of plot into one movie.
What is a Series of Unfortunate Events?
400
This series was the most challenged in 2012.
What is the Captain Underpants series?
400
This individual is the winner of the 2013 Margaret A. Edwards Award.
Who is Tamora Pierce?
400
ABA is ____ years old this year.
What is 68 years old?
400
This librarian knows what it’s like to get wrapped up in a good book.
Who is Evelyn Carnahan from The Mummy?
400
This 2007 movie has the werewolf protagonist make a completely different decision than made in the book.
What is Blood and Chocolate?
500
Material of this nature was the reason for the most amount of challenges in the past decade.
What is sexually explicit material?
500
This award is presented to English language books that have exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered experience.
What is the Stonewall Award?
500
The letters ABA stand for these three words in Greek
What is Americanike Bibliofylaken Athelphotes - (American Librarians’ Brotherhood)?
500
This librarian is stereotypical in all but one way- I wish I had tentacles to toss noisemakers out of a skylight!
What is the librarian from Monsters University?
500
This 2013 zombie flick only shares the name with the novel it is based off.
What is World War Z?