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Banned Books: You Might’ve Read in School!
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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.”
-bannedbooksweek.org/ censorship
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Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
“N” wordpromotes racism
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J.D. Salinger
Catcher in the Rye (1951)
ObsceneBlasphemousNegative Foulfilthy
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Jack London
Call of Wild (1903) Bloody violenceDark tone
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby (1925)
AlcoholismSexual referencesprofanity
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Truman Capote
In Cold Blood (1966)
SexViolenceProfanity
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
PornographicObscene
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Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
ProfaneRacistdegrading
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Maurice Sendak
Where the Wild Things Are (1963)
Dark and disturbing nature
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Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
HellsDamnsAgainst religious
beliefs
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John Steinbeck
Grapes of Wrath (1939)
ProfanitySexual references
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William Golding
Lord of the Flies (1954)
ProfanityRacial and sexual
slurs
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Banned Books Week
http://www.bannedbooksweek.org/censorship/bannedbooksthatshapedamerica
For more information on banned books and banned books week, please visit the link to the left.