Many of the books challenged in 2023 have been challenged on grounds of sexual content, and that is certainly true of New York Times-bestselling author Ellen Hopkins’Tricks, a novel about five troubled teens who fall into prostitution in their efforts to survive and make a place for themselve...
Audiobooks take books, banned or not, to a new level. Whether you need your eyes free or you just prefer listening to stories over reading them, audiobooks allow you to be fully immersed in literature and experience the various characters. Not to mention, it can speed up one's rea...
Banned Books Week, which was first held in 1982, celebrates the freedom to read as schools and libraries throughout Michigan and across the nation face rising challenges about banning books.
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"You might not be the audience, your child might not be the audience, but more often than not, there is an audience for the books and often they are desperately needed," she said. PEN America said there is evidence that the effort to ban books is continuing in the...
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In fact, according to the organizers of Banned Books Week: ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedomdocumented 1,247 demands to censor library books and resources in 2023. The number of titles targeted for censorship surged 65% in 2023 compared to 2022, reaching the highest levels ever documented ...
The decision Thursday went against a judge who had advised the Oklahoma Board of Education not to revoke the license of Summer Boismier, who had also put in her high school classroom a QR code of the Brooklyn Public Library’s catalogue of banned books...
When it comes to books, my policy is generally to make a point to seek out the ones people try to ban; they’re almost always worthwhile, at least to understand why their ideas are being suppressed. Residents of Florida take note. ...
In apress release, PEN noted that the number of book bans increased 28 per cent in first half of the 2022-2023 school year when compared to the previous six-month period. The time period saw 1,477 bans affecting 874 individual books. ...