Wanna see if there's a banned book in YOUR neighborhood?
Well here's your site! Thanks Google Maps for allowing us to see a geographical distribution of censorship. Maybe next we can do one for witchhunts and exorcisms.
Wanna know what's been threatened with banning in my state?
(2007) Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War was challenged at the Northridge School District in Johnstown because of claims that 'if these books were a movie, they would be rated R, why should we be encouraging [students] to read these books?'
What, are you forcing kids to read it or something? If that's the case you have no worries. I hardly read my assigned books for English classes.
Seriously, just having the book doesn't mean you're encouraging them to read it. Whatever, chill.
(2007) E. R. America Frank's Atheneum was challenged in Ravenna schools because it contained 'sexual content and profanity.' The novel has received a New York Times Notable Book Award as well as a Garden State Teen Book Award nomination.
They're about teens that suffer from trauma -- I'd expect that. And you know that might be helpful for teens that actually do suffer from trauma? Please.
Wanna know what's been threatened with banning in my state?
(2007) Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War was challenged at the Northridge School District in Johnstown because of claims that 'if these books were a movie, they would be rated R, why should we be encouraging [students] to read these books?'
What, are you forcing kids to read it or something? If that's the case you have no worries. I hardly read my assigned books for English classes.
Seriously, just having the book doesn't mean you're encouraging them to read it. Whatever, chill.
(2007) E. R. America Frank's Atheneum was challenged in Ravenna schools because it contained 'sexual content and profanity.' The novel has received a New York Times Notable Book Award as well as a Garden State Teen Book Award nomination.
They're about teens that suffer from trauma -- I'd expect that. And you know that might be helpful for teens that actually do suffer from trauma? Please.