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You want to ban that?!?
Intellectual Freedom/Censorship
Challenged Authors
About Banned Books Week
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CHALLENGED FOR: conflict, crime, death of a character
What is The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
100
This book is about boys stranded on a deserted island.
What is The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
100
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."
100
This author's most popular book about saving the environment was challenged in the 1970's by the logging industry.
Who is Dr. Seuss?
100
In what decade did we begin to commemorate Banned Books Week?
What is the 1980's
200
CHALLENGED FOR: language
What is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
200
Scout's father Atticus is a lawyer in Alabama in the 1920's.
What is To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
200
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
200
This author's famous underwear wearing superhero has been challenged for encouraging disruptive behavior.
Who is Dave Pilkey?
200
What organization addresses the book challenges and documents this information?
Who is The American Library Association
300
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 by L. Frank Baum
300
The main character, who the series is named after, wants a pet so bad she adopts a fish stick.
What is the Junie B. Jones series.
300
This is the place that most challenges are brought before.
What is the Public Library?
300
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?
300
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.
400
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 by JK Rowling
400
Max has quite an imagination that sends him on a journey to an island of wild beasts.
What is Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
400
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?
400
The second most banned author in America has been holding that title for over 30 years. Her books about young girls and their lives are still popular with pre-teens, teens, and adults. Many of her books have made it to film, most recently in 2023. In the film and book, the young protagonist, Margaret, moves from the city to the suburbs with her family.
Who is Judy Blume.
400
This week-long celebration was created to highlight the value of free and open access to information.
What is Banned Books Week.
500
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.
What is Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
500
This first-person account written by young girl while hiding with her family from the Nazis during World War 2 has been banned numerous times. The Alabama State Textbook Committee once called for banning the book because it was "a real downer."
What is The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
500
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.
500
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?
500
Which ammendment to the U.S. Constitution protects our right to freedom of speech?
1st Ammendment