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Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Explore
Language
English
Description
Banning books is downright dangerous-and if you manage to make it to the end of this book, you might just find out why. From #1 New York Times bestselling author of P Is for Pterodactyl Raj Haldar comes a hilarious and thoughtful new picture book that underscores the importance of the fight against censorship in schools and libraries across the country.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After her principal bans a number of books from the school library, bibliophile student Clara joins forces with her friends to start an underground library.
When the principal at Lupton Academy posts a "prohibited media" hit list, Clara Evans is horrified. Titles like "Their eyes were watching God" and "The perks of being a wallflower" have been pulled from the library and aren't allowed on the school's premises. Students caught with the contraband...
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Welcome, boys and girls, readers of all ages, to the first-ever Library Olympiad! Kyle and his teammates are back, and the world-famous game maker, Luigi Lemoncello, is at it again! This time Mr. Lemoncello has invited teams from all across America to compete in the first ever LIBRARY OLYMPICS. Will it be fun? Like the commercials say ... HELLO? It's a Lemoncello! But something suspicious is going on ... books are missing from Mr. Lemoncello's library....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Donovan left his copy of The Adventurers on the kitchen counter, he didn't think his mom would read it--much less have a problem with it. It's just an adventure novel about two characters trying to stop an evil genius...right? But soon the entire town is freaking out about whether the book's main characters are gay, Donovan's mom is trying to get the book removed from the school curriculum, and Donovan is caught in the middle. Donovan doesn't...
Author
Publisher
Starscape
Language
English
Description
"A fourth grader fights back when From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg is challenged by a well-meaning parent and taken off the shelves of her school library. Amy Anne is shy and soft-spoken, but don't mess with her when it comes to her favorite book in the whole world. Amy Anne and her lieutenants wage a battle for the books that will make you laugh and pump your fists as they start a secret banned books locker...
6) Banned books
Author
Series
Publisher
Core Library
Language
English
Description
Learn about the history of banned books. Some very popular books have been banned from schools. Book banning continues today. Learn about how book banning affects you, the reader.
7) Banned book
Author
Publisher
Creative Editions
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The text follows the story of a book that is first subjected to redaction, then removal from a library, and finally disposal.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR, where no one dare publish it, and help Pasternak's magnum opus make its way into print around the world. Glamorous and sophisticated Sally Forrester is a seasoned spy who has honed her gift for deceit all over the world -- using her magnetism and charm to pry...
Author
Publisher
Facts On File
Edition
Revised edition.
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Throughout history, tyrants, totalitarian states, church institutions, and democratic governments alike have banned books that challenged their assumptions or questioned their activities. Political censorship was even applied to ancient Greek dramas during the Nazi occupation in 1942. Political suppression also occurs in the name of "security" and the safeguarding of official secrets, and is often used as a weapon in larger cultural...
13) 451 độ F
Author
Publisher
Nhã nam
Edition
Vietnamese edition.
Language
Vietnamese
Description
"Hãy mường tượng một thế giớ nơi truyền hình thống trị và văn chương ngấp nghé trên bờ tuyệt chủng, nơi thông tin nông cạn được tung hô còn tri thức và ý tưởng thì bị ruồng rẫy, nơi tàng trữ sách là phạm pháp, ta có thể bị bắt chỉ vì tản bộ trên vỉa hè, còn nhiệm vụ của những người lính không phải cứu hỏa mà là châm mồi cho những đám...
Publisher
Wild Eye Releasing
Language
English
Description
Explore the history of one of the most controversial works of modern children's literature: The best selling teen classic Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, which scared a generation of readers and became one of the most banned books of modern times. Includes the author's family, scholars, folklorists, artists, fans, and children's book authors such as R.L. Stine, Q.L. Pearce, and more.
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House Publishers
Language
English
Description
Upon learning that the books with kids who look like her have been banned by her school district, Kanzi descends into fear and helplessness. But her classmates support her, and together-with their teacher's help-they hatch a plan to hold a bake sale and use the proceeds to buy diverse books to donate to libraries.
17) Banned book club
Author
Publisher
Iron Circus Comics
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The autobiography of a South Korean woman's student days under an authoritarian regime, and how she defied state censorship. When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she was ready for her world to open up. After acing her exams and sort-of convincing her traditional mother that it was a good idea for a woman to go to college, she looked forward to soaking up the ideas of Western Literature far from the drudgery she was promised at her family's...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on newly declassified files, this is the story of how a book forbidden in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West. In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout paid a visit to Russia's greatest living poet, Boris Pasternak. He left carrying the manuscript of Pasternak's first and only novel, entrusted to him with these words: "This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world." Pasternak...
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