Teen Tuesday

To celebrate, I encourage you to read as many of them as you can, and tweet the title of the book, with the hashtag #BannedBooksWeek.  You can even include a selfie of you reading the book!

To assist you in choosing a title, here are ten young adult books that were banned/challeneged in 2012:

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2007).

Feed by M.T. Anderson (Candlewick Press, 2004).

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (MTV Books, 1999).

When it Happens by Susane Colasanti (Penguin Group, 2008).

Looking for Alaska by John Green (Penguin Group, 2006).

Sidescrollers by Matthew Loux (Oni Press, 2006).

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic, 2008).

Intensely Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Simon Pulse, 2010).

A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer (HCI Books, 1995).

The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci (HMH Books for Young Readers, 2008).

Celebrate the Freedom to Read

Reprinted by permission of the American Library Association

This week, September 30 to October 6, 2012 marks the thirtieth anniversary of Banned Books Week.

I don't usually publish a blog on Sundays, but in honor of this week,
I thought I would share with you the top ten challenged books of 2011:

1. ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series), by Lauren Myracle
   Reasons: offensive language; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group 
2. The Color of Earth (series), by Kim Dong Hwa
   Reasons: nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
3. The Hunger Games trilogy, by Suzanne Collins
   Reasons: anti-ethnic; anti-family; insensitivity; offensive language; occult/satanic; violence
4. My Mom's Having A Baby! A Kid's Month-by-Month Guide to Pregnancy, by Dori Hillestad Butler
   Reasons: nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
5. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
   Reasons: offensive language; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
6. Alice (series), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
   Reasons: nudity; offensive language; religious viewpoint
7. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
   Reasons: insensitivity; nudity; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit
8. What My Mother Doesn't Know, by Sonya Sones
   Reasons: nudity; offensive language; sexually explicit
9. Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily Von Ziegesar
   Reasons: drugs; offensive language; sexually explicit
10. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
    Reasons: offensive language; racism