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		Books are a quiet entertainment and we are no longer raised to be "quiet." Most people just want to collapse in front of the television with the remote and a beverage and not have to think.
		One in four adults read no books at all in the past year, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll released Tuesday.
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	Banned Books Week 2002
		Banning of books by John Steinbeck and other writers is an example of what Banned Books Week is all about: "the freedom to read what we choose, and the vigilance we must maintain to assure that this freedom, which can be fragile, lives on."
		"Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one's opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them." (ALA Banned Books Web Site).
		Banned Books Week 2002 has the theme "Let Freedom Read: Read a Banned Book." Banned Books Week is sponsored by the American Booksellers Association, the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, the American Library Association, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Association of American Publishers and the National Association of College Stores.
	www.rbc.edu /library/Events/bbooks2002.htm (676 words)

	Banned Books - Reading
		The official definition of Banned Book Week is a week to celebrate the freedom to choose or freedom to express one’s opinions even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them.
		A Banned Book or a Challenged Book is any book that any group or person would like to see removed from a public library or a school curriculum.
		Banned Books and Challenged Books are not limited to recent children’s fiction.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art46215.asp (350 words)

	Banned Books Week: September 25-October 2
		Banned by the Chinese Governor of Hunan Province on the ground that "Animals should not use human language, and that it was disastrous to put animals and human beings on the same level."
		Banned, but later reinstated after community protests at the Windsor Forest High School in Savannah, Ga. The controversy began in early 1999 when a parent complained about sex, violence, and profanity in the book that was part of an advanced placement English class.
		The Newbury Award-winning book might encourage children to “commit suicide because they think they can be reincarnated as something or someone else.” On Sept. 15, 1992, Judge Joseph Nickleach denied a request seeking to ban the book from the district’s curriculum.
	sshl.ucsd.edu /banned/books.html (3614 words)

	Banned Books
		A banned book is one that has been censored by an authority—a government, a library, or a school system.
		In some cases, those censoring books think that a book might be appropriate for older children, but just not younger ones—a book that might be perfectly fine for a ninth grader may be disturbing or confusing to a fourth grader.
		The Harry Potter books are a good example of this: some think they are wonderfully imaginative books that have done much to encourage kids to read; others, who think the Potter books should be banned, think they are a bad and corrupting influence on kids.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/banned-kids-books.html (815 words)

	Collecting Banned Books
		Books have been banned to protect publishers within a certain country or area, much like any other tariff.
		While this would seem a separate area, it easily crosses over to books that are banned because of their politics, or their concepts of society.
		Savanarola's work, for example, was banned as heretical, and yet it was his political and social reforms in Florence that formed the basis of arguments for the banning and burning of his writings.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/censorship_books/51093 (466 words)

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		The book was banned in school libraries in the Lamar CISD (Rosenberg), the Ector County ISD (Odessa), and the Cherokee ISD.
		The book, a story about a city kid who goes to live on a ranch and encounters a wild horse named "Star Runner", was challenged for "profanity/inappropriate language." The author, who lives in Oklahoma, was contacted but had no comment on the bannings.
		This book was also challenged in the Richardson ISD Lake Highlands High School where it was used in the classroom.
	www.bannedbooks.info /report_highlights.htm (432 words)

	Banned Books: A Pathfinder
		A "banned book" on the other hand is a challenged book that has actually been removed from the shelves.
		Books are often challenged or banned due to an individual or group of individuals considering the book to be controversial, immoral, inappropriate, sexually explicit, divisive, corrupt, vulgar, violent, or even wicked.
		Each essay discusses why the book should be read; to whom it should be recommended; the essayist's impressions and interpretations of the text and concepts, emotions the reader might experience; and reasons why the book has been challenged.
	www.albany.edu /~mr3240/isp605 (2583 words)

	Alibris: Used, New and Out-of-Print Books, Music and Movies
		Find out which classic was banned with the lofty reasoning that the book was "junk." Discover which children's favorite was banned when a topless woman was found in an illustration of a beach scene.
		The ban was lifted in the US in 1960 and the book went on to sell over two million copies in its first year of publication.
		D. Salinger - This novel depicting a teenager's nervous breakdown has been repeatedly banned and challenged for reasons such as "profanity," "sexual references," and the charge that it "undermines morality." The novel has also been cited as blasphemous and as recently as 1983, "the book's contents" were cited as justification to ban the book.
	www.alibris.com /articles_features/features/banned/banned.cfm (1784 words)

	2000-2001 Banned or Challenged Books
		Of course, not all the banned or challenged books are for children.
		Banned Books Week was created to make more people aware of the ongoing practice of challenging and banning books and to remind people of the importance of our First Amendment Rights.
		In-store displays of banned books and the reasons for their banning will give folks further information on this crucial artistic, philosophical, and political issue.
	www.bakerbooks.net /banned_books.asp (392 words)

	American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression
		Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 to draw attention to the growing number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries.
		On June 6, a school board attorney told the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals that the board was entitled to ban the book from school libraries because it contains “inaccuracies.” The board is appealing a lower court decision that ordered it to keep the book in the libraries.
		Another complaint was that the book didn’t make clear that “education is permeated by political control and indoctrination” or explain that “[h]igh pregnancy rates in adolescence are a bi-product” of adolescents being sent to the countryside to do unpaid agricultural work.
	www.abffe.org (1598 words)

	American Civil Liberties Union : Special Campaigns: Banned Books Week 2004
		Banned Books Week, from Sept. 25 to Oct. 2, calls attention to the wealth of creative expression that is stifled when libraries are forced to remove some books from their shelves.
		The ACLU encourages Americans to mark Banned Books Week by telling their elected officials to preserve our right to privacy and keep censorship out of our libraries.
		Banned Books Week, which has been observed annually since 1982, reminds Americans not to take for granted their precious freedom to read.
	www.aclu.org /campaigns/2004bannedbooks (993 words)

	History of Banned Books
		The banning of books has its origins as far back as 450 B.C., when Anaxagoras wrote that he thought the sun was a “white hot stone and that the moon reflected the sun's rays.”
		On the other side, those who feel a book has value and merit feel that a small group of people should not have the power to limit the rest of society’s access to materials.
		In the decade 1990 and 2000, individuals raised 6,364 challenges to books, according to data from the Office for Intellectual Freedom.
	www.wsu.edu /~accessnw/resources/Bannedbooks.htm (1081 words)

	Banned Books Online
		The Bible and The Quran were both removed from numerous libraries and banned from import in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1956.
		E for Ecstasy, a book on the drug MDMA, was seized by Australian customs in 1994, and at last check (May 2000), the official ban on the book was still in force in that country.
		was banned from classrooms in Midland, Michigan in 1980, due to its portrayal of the Jewish character Shylock.
	onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu /banned-books.html (4458 words)

	Banned Books and Censorship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		First banned because of its use of dialect and narration from an uneducated child's point of view, it is now frequently challenged because of its depiction of race relations in the pre-Civil War south.
		Mark Twain's responses to the banning of his books, expressed in private and public letters and interviews from 1885 to 1907, show that he usually appreciated the controversies surrounding his books.
		Unlike most attempts to ban books in the United States, censorship of Mark Twain's social and political writings was intended to deceive readers, not to protect them.
	www.boondocksnet.com /twainwww/banned_books.html (734 words)

	Banned Books Awareness Week 2006 - Fletcher Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Recognition of Banned Books Week 2006 on the ASU's West campus is jointly sponsored by the Fletcher Library Diversity Initiative Team and Amnesty International at ASU West.
		Many countries continue to officially ban or censor religious texts and publications while socially imposed norms and practices limit the expression of religion and availability of sacred texts and other writings on religion throughout the world.
		In addition to the "Books Behind Bars" art exhibit, Fletcher Library will be displaying challenged and banned books near the front of the library.
	library.west.asu.edu /Diversity/bannedbooks (901 words)

	Banned Books
		Banned by Pope Paul IV until revised, still banned by the New England Watch and Ward Society in 1935, only in 1954 was it finally allowed in US.
		Banned in Boston because it depicted a clergyman as obscene, banned in Ireland in 1931
		In addition to banning the book in Iran, a fatwa was issued condemning Rushdie to death and a bounty placed on his head.
	www.godless.org /hasd/Banned.html (1430 words)

	Banned Books
		Banning books isn't something that was done centuries or decades ago.
		Sometimes nobody notices and the banned book stays lost to a school or country.
		Naturally, everyone expects that a literary agency would be opposed to censorship and banning books.
	www.adlerbooks.com /banned.html (649 words)

	Amazon.com: Alice Walker Banned: Books: Alice Walker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		To Walker's credit, much of this book is devoted to the ideas of those who oppose the inclusion of her works in state-wide CLAS tests.
		Banned's focus, however, is not the literary power of Alice Walker, but the power of her ideas.
		The book explains with detail, how to tackle situations, in which one is placed to face the world of censoring.
	www.amazon.com /Alice-Walker-Banned/dp/1879960478 (1666 words)

	Banned Books Trivia - AOL Research & Learn
		The American Library Association's Banned Books Week is Sept. 23-30.
		Take the banned books quiz to see how your knowledge stacks up.
		Banned Books Week runs from Sept. 23 to Sept. 30.
	reference.aol.com /quizzes/banned-books (153 words)

	ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan: Censorship in the Classroom: Understanding Controversial Issues
		As students read the book that they selected, ask them to use their response journals to explore the ways in which the novel focuses on controversial issues.
		When students have finished reading their book, have them visit Banned Books Online to learn the reasons that the book they read may have been banned or challenged.
		Have students create an ad campaign to support their decision to ban or not to ban the book that they read.
	www.readwritethink.org /lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=203 (2413 words)

	Data Mining 101: Finding Subversives with Amazon Wishlists \| Applefritter
		Books are always added to the front of the wishlist which pushes older titles off the first page, so there is also a slight bias in favor of newer books.
		City and state were extracted using a regular expression to create a file for each book containing the locations of its readers.
		Maybe even add in some sort of rating sysetem for books - ie: 1984 or 'on liberty' are worth 10 point each, together they're 100 points, but 1984 and 'slaughterhouse 5' together are worth 0 points because that probably means someone is taking a literature class.
	www.applefritter.com /bannedbooks (4428 words)

	ILA: Advocacy: Banned Books
		Banned Books Week 2005 is the twenty-fourth annual celebration of the freedom to read.
		This freedom, not only to choose what we read but also to be able to select from a full array of possibilities, is firmly rooted in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of press.
		Quite simply, censors are those who try to limit the freedom of others to choose what they read, see, or hear, even if the motivation for the restriction is well intentioned.
	www.ila.org /advocacy/banned.htm (196 words)

	The Censorship Pages -- Information on Censorship of the Written Word
		As an example of a just banned book, David Guterson's acclaimed book Snow Falling on Cedars has been banned by the South Kitsap School District in Washington state as an inappropriate and obscene book.
		Why it was banned is much deeper, as the book is written about the racism and anti-Japanese persecution during and after WW II on the Kitsap Peninsula.
		The book was banned because Kitsap is still a right wing, racist stronghold and they wish to block any recognition of their bigoted past and present.
	www.booksatoz.com /censorship/index.htm (616 words)

	Banned Books — FactMonster.com
		The banning of books and other forms of censorship are not new.
		Here is a list of the most frequently attacked children's books in recent years and the objections to them.
		Banned Books - From Harriet the Spy to The Catcher in the Rye
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0768756.html (266 words)

	ALA \| Banned Books Week
		Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year.
		Banned and/or Challenged Books from the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century
		banned books week, intellectual freedom, censors, censorship, freedom of expression, free speech, freedom of speech, First Amendment, open access, information, book burning, challenges, confidentiality, filtering, Library Bill of Rights, privacy
	www.ala.org /ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bannedbooksweek.htm (602 words)

	Banned Books and American Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Twain's novels continue to be challenged and banned, but new reasons for opposing them have emerged through the years.
		Twain redoubled the insult to the literary establishment by insisting that his books be sold door to door by subscription instead of through book stores.
		In 1885 the novel challenged a deeply entrenched elitist literary establishment that found the book "more suited to the slums than to intelligent, respectable people." Today it challenges the "lie of silent assertion" that racism is no longer a pressing concern in the United States.
	www.boondocksnet.com /twainwww/essays/banned_books9709.html (1158 words)

	Bloodletters - Banned Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		It's frequently banned for its profanity and its sexual content; written in 1951, the narrative has an edge to it that still sends moralists howling.
		The book has also been pulled from reading lists because it's "centered around negative activity." You're damn right it is. Life isn't always peaches and cream, and there's no reason our fiction ought to be.
		Banned for being violent, sexually explicit, for using offensive language, and for its use of infanticide and euthanasia.
	www.bloodletters.com /banned (1234 words)

	Banned Books
		Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds is the first reference work to examine the issues underlying the suppression of over one hundred sexually obscene works.
		One challenger in Mesa, Arizona, said the book "is vile, sick and goes against every law and constitution." The passion evident in this parent's complaint typifies the language of formal book challenges filed with schools and public libraries all over the country.
		Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them.
	www.queertheory.com /bookshop/books_banned.htm (760 words)

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