Childhood Favorites
CHALLENGED FOR: conflict, crime, death of a character
The Outsider's by S.E. Hinton
This book is about boys stranded on a deserted island.
What is The Lord of the Flies?
This individual right is protected by the First Amendment.
What is the Right to Free Speech?
The First Amendment states that, " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
This author's most popular book about saving the environment was challenged in the 1970's for by the logging industry.
Who is Dr. Seuss?
In what decade did we begin to commemorate Banned Books Week?
1980's
CHALLENGED FOR: language
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Scout's father Atticus is a lawyer in Alabama in the 1920's.
What is To Kill A Mockingbird?
Each year, challenges are made to certain books when a person or group objects to their content. Most challenges, however, do not lead to banning. True or False?
What is True?
This author's famous Underware wearing superhero has been challenged for encouraging disruptive behavior.
Who is Dave Pilkey?
What organization addresses the book challenges and documents this information?
The American Library Association
This book was banned because it "features women in strong leadership roles." It features a scarecrow, a lion, and a tin man.
What is The Wonderful Wizard of Oz?
She wants a pet so bad she adopts a fishstick.
Who is Junie B. Jones?
This is the place that most challenges are brought before.
What is the Public Library?
This author's series has been challenged and banned over the last 20 years due to subject matter of spells, witchcraft, and wizardry.
Who is J.K. Rowling?
A challenged book is one that has been removed completely from circulation in a library.
True or False
False
A book that has been challenged is an ATTEMPT to remove the book.
This book was challenged, banned, and burned all over the globe after its publication in 1997. In 2019, it returned to the ALA's Top 10 Most Frequently Challenged Books list. It features an orphan boy who finds out he is a wizard.
What is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone?
Where the Wild Things Are
This event is promoted nationally every year to emphasize people's right to freedom to choose what they read.
What is Banned Book's Week?
This famous American author wrote a series about her life growing up homesteading. In 2018, a division of the American Library Association voted to remove her name from a major children's book award, over concerns about how the author portrayed African Americans and Native Americans in her books.
Who is Laura Ingalls Wilder?
Why do we commemorate Banned Books Week?
Due to themes of death and the fact that the main characters are talking animals, a parent group in Kansas sought to ban the book from their students’ school libraries.
Charlotte's Webb by E.B. White
This often challenged book is often quoted as being the number one bestseller. It has been translated into many languages and read by people all over the world.
What is The Bible?
Which of the following is a reason as to why a book has been challenged: A) too depressing, B) encourages youths to break dishes, C) too scary, D) poor grammar, E) all of the above
What is E) all of the above? Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank was "too depressing," a poem by Shel Silverstein talked about breaking dishes, Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak was "too scary," and the Junie B. Jones series encourages children to use poor grammar.
This author has had several of his popular title's banned such as "James and the Giant Peach," "Witches," and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."
Who is Roald Dahl?
Which ammendment to the U.S. Constitution protects our right to freedom of speech?
1st Ammendment