Celebrate Banned Boo
ks Week
@ the Jessie F. Hallett Memorial Library
September 25,-Octob
er 1, 2016
Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1982, this annual American Library Association event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted. The year 2016 marks Banned Books Week's 35th anniversary.
BBW 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. After all, intellectual freedom can exist only where these two essential conditions are met.
Read a Banned Book Today!
Some Banned Book Recommendations:
Harry Potter (series) by J.K. Rowling
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelo
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Giver by Lois Lowry
A Time to Kill by John Grisham
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson Blubber by Judy Blume
Harris and Me by Gary Paulsen
June B. Jones (series) by Barbara Park
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
See a JFHML staff member for a more complete list! And check out our display created by Ashley Bartel...
