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Banned Books: You Might’ve Read in School!
What is censorship?
“Hundreds of books have been either removed or challenged in schools and libraries in the United States every year. According to the American Library Association (ALA), there were at least 326 in 2011. ALA estimates that 70 to 80 percent are never reported.”
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Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
“N” wordpromotes racism
J.D. Salinger
Catcher in the Rye (1951)
ObsceneBlasphemousNegative Foulfilthy
Jack London
Call of Wild (1903) Bloody violenceDark tone
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby (1925)AlcoholismSexual referencesprofanity
Truman Capote
In Cold Blood (1966)
SexViolenceProfanity
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter (1850)PornographicObscene
Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)ProfaneRacistdegrading
Maurice Sendak
Where the Wild Things Are (1963)Dark and disturbing
nature
Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
HellsDamnsAgainst religious
beliefs
John Steinbeck
Grapes of Wrath (1939)
ProfanitySexual references
William Golding
Lord of the Flies (1954)
ProfanityRacial and sexual
slurs
Banned Books Week
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