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• Banned Books Week 2017: Celebrating the Power of Words

  Banned Books Week 2017: Celebrating the Power of Words, . The Banned Books Week YouTube channel features videos of readers “exercising their First Amendment right to read a banned book.” The New York Times compilation of “Ways to Celebrate Banned Books Week, , “Words Have Power. Read a Banned Book,” celebrates the power of words to connect readers with diverse, , and suggested hashtags. TeachHUB’s list of “12 Banned Books Week Classroom Activities” offers, Although it’s easy to think that book banning is a thing of the past, even in 2017 censors
  September 26, 2017

• Explore Resources for Banned Books Week

  Explore Resources for Banned Books Week, This week, September 17 through 24, is Banned Book Week, an annual event celebrating, for a Global Society book list. Articles “'Let Me Just Close My Eyes': Challenged and Banned Books, The Power and Promise of Read-Alouds and Independent Reading Blog posts “Banned Books Week 2017, to remove books from public schools and libraries. A proud member of the Unite Against Book Bans movement, fighting book bans. United Against Book Bans Toolkit I Read Dangerous kit from the American
  September 20, 2022

• Celebrating the Freedom to Read

  . Banned Books Week, an annual event celebrating the freedom to read, affords the book-loving community, in 1982, this year Banned Books Week runs from September 23–29 with the theme “Banning Books, controversial than others, but those of us who support intellectual freedom consider Banned Books Week, suicide. Several school districts challenged the book, which recently experienced a resurgence, . The winner of a National Book Award, this novel has been challenged by schools because of how it
  September 03, 2018

• When We Talk About Banned Books

  When We Talk About Banned Books, It’s Banned Books Week, and all across the United States, public libraries feature displays encouraging patrons to read banned books. Somewhere, someone will pick up a book from one of those displays and say, “Whoa. This has been banned?” Book banning is a loaded term that implies, they learn that the book they are holding in their hands has not been banned outright, only challenged, , “What’s the big deal? The book wasn’t banned. It’s still in the school library.” But here’s
  September 30, 2015

• Book Challenge Procedures: Recipes are Intended to be Followed

  Book Challenge Procedures: Recipes are Intended to be Followed, the cake at times. For more information on Banned Books Week, book challenges and censorship, . And sometimes they don’t always cook well together. During Banned Books Week, the American, . There are a lot of players involved in any book challenge so it can be helpful for all to be working, . Sometimes one or all of the supervisors or administrators will be supportive of the book, the policy set in place. Think chocolate chip cookies with no sugar. In fact, this week we received
  September 25, 2014

• Every Page Has a Purpose: Join the Movement for International Literacy Day 2025

  Association’s Banned Books Week (October 5–11, 2025). How to Get Involved Follow us, in everyday places, and #MyBookVoice, which spotlights book recommendations from kids themselves. Other activities will include assembling community book bags filled with stories and projects, and a call, . Learn More Right To Read: 4 Advocacy Organizations With Resources To Fight Book Bans
  July 08, 2025

• 5 Questions With... Dav Pilkey (Captain Underpants series)

  spinoffs. It’s amazing he even had time to answer these questions. It’s Banned Books Week. Captain, books," that is to say people want it banned and deem it inappropriate for children. Were/are you, it even if it wasn’t my job. What is your all-time favorite controversial book and why
  September 26, 2014

• Celebrating the Freedom to Read

  ," or to be "unsuited to any age group." The ALA OIF reported 323 challenges in 2016. This year, Banned Book Week, For more than 30 years, book lovers, librarians, teachers, publishers, book lovers, and supporters of intellectual freedom have celebrated the freedom to read through Banned Books Week. Librarians, of the community demands that a book be removed from the shelves. The American Library Association’s, , restricted, removed, or banned during the year. Typically, challenges are filed because someone
  September 18, 2017

• Judge These Banned Books for Yourself

  Judge These Banned Books for Yourself, Although books are challenged throughout the year, book lovers designate one week each year as Banned Books Week. This is an annual opportunity to celebrate the right to read and to savor the intellectual freedoms through the unfettered access to texts with disparate points of view. Banned Books Week (Sept. 27–Oct. 3) was initiated out of growing concern over the number of challenges, can read. One book, the award-winning Into the River, already has been banned in New Zealand
  September 28, 2015

• Stand Up for Your Right to Read

  . Intellectual freedom should be cherished. Banned Books Week, a partnership of book publishers, on ALA’s website. Clearly, Banned Books Week brings together book lovers in support of intellectual, . Although I might not relish every single book on that banned book t-shirt or even those, with images of 40 front covers of books that have been challenged or banned over the years. I, in the book. I Am Jazz, by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings, challenged for being
  September 19, 2016