Banned Books Week - Day 3
September 30 - October 6 is Banned Books Week, an annual celebration of the fight against literary censorship.
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden follows Liza, a well-to-do private school girl from Brooklyn who meets Annie, who lives with her immigrant parents and attends public school, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art one rainy day. As the two spend more time together, they find their feelings shifting towards the romantic, which could spell trouble should they be caught. Annie on my Mind is on the School Library Journal's list of the 100 most influential books of the 20th century. It's won numerous awards and Nancy Garden was presented with YALSA's Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement for Annie on My Mind in 2003.
Despite this praise, it also, unsurprisingly, has been the subject of controversy. Annie on my Mind was among the top fifty most frequently challenged books in the 90's and one school district in Kansas City Missouri went so far as to burn the book and enter in a costly court battle in order to keep it off the shelves, one that was ultimately unsuccessful. It's been challenged for homosexual content and being unsuited for age group.
For more information on Banned Books Week, check out the ALA's BBW site or BannedBooksWeek.org.
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden follows Liza, a well-to-do private school girl from Brooklyn who meets Annie, who lives with her immigrant parents and attends public school, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art one rainy day. As the two spend more time together, they find their feelings shifting towards the romantic, which could spell trouble should they be caught. Annie on my Mind is on the School Library Journal's list of the 100 most influential books of the 20th century. It's won numerous awards and Nancy Garden was presented with YALSA's Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement for Annie on My Mind in 2003.
Despite this praise, it also, unsurprisingly, has been the subject of controversy. Annie on my Mind was among the top fifty most frequently challenged books in the 90's and one school district in Kansas City Missouri went so far as to burn the book and enter in a costly court battle in order to keep it off the shelves, one that was ultimately unsuccessful. It's been challenged for homosexual content and being unsuited for age group.
Click to viewFor more information on Banned Books Week, check out the ALA's BBW site or BannedBooksWeek.org.