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...They reach across boundaries and barriers, building connections and igniting discussions between readers to share worlds and ideas. Books are an opportunity to not only see a part of ourselves, but also understand out similarities and differences. Reading books - especially books that extend beyond our own experiences - expands our world, making it bigger and more inclusive. - Banned & Challenged Books Field Report 2020
...They reach across boundaries and barriers, building connections and igniting discussions between readers to share worlds and ideas. Books are an opportunity to not only see a part of ourselves, but also understand out similarities and differences. Reading books - especially books that extend beyond our own experiences - expands our world, making it bigger and more inclusive. - Banned & Challenged Books Field Report 2020
Banned Books Week (September 26 - October 2, 2021) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools.
Banned Books Week (September 26 - October 2, 2021) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools.
The Poet X (2018)
Acevedo, Elizabeth
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
Angelou, Maya
Letting Go (2014)
Banks, Maya
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006)
Bechdel, Alison
Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World (2018)
Blake, Ashley Herring
Somebody Else's Daughter (2008)
Brundage, Elizabeth
Something Happened in our Town: A Child's Story about Racial Injustice (2018)
Celano, Marianne, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard
Ready Player One (2011)
Cline, Ernest
Little & Lion ( 2015)
Colbert, Brandy
How to Talk to a Liberal (If you must) (2004)
Coulter, Ann
White Fragility: Why It's so hard for white people to talk about racism (2018)
DiAngelo, Robin
Invisible Man (1952)
Ellison, Ralph
10,000 Dresses (2008)
Ewert, Marcus
The Great Gastby (1925)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaption (2018)
Folman, Ari
Snow, Glass, Apple (2019)
Gaiman, Neil
Lily and Dunkin (2016)
Gephart, Donna
George (2015)
Gino, Alex
Rick (2020)
Gino, Alex
Red: A Crayon's Story (2015)
Hall, Michael
My Two Dads (2015)
Harrington, Claudia
My Two Moms (2015)
Harrington, Claudia
Catch - 22 (1961)
Heller, Joseph
The Great Big Book of Families (2010)
Hoffman, Mary
The True Adventures of Ester the Wonder Pig (2018)
Jenkins, Steve, Derek Walter, and Caprice Crane
Gender Queer: A Memoir (2019)
Kobabe, Maia
Real Sisters Pretend (2016)
Lambert, Megan Dowd
To Kill A Mockingbird (1960)
Lee, Harper
Snapdragon (2020)
Leyh, Kat
Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse (2019)
Lithgow, John
When Aidan Became a Brother (2019)
Lukoff, Kyle
The Bluest Eye (1970)
Morrison, Toni
Monster (1999)
Myers, Walter Dean
Anime from Akira to How's moving castle: Experiencing contemporary Japanese animation (2005)
Napier, Susan
Mommy, Mama, and Me (2009)
Newman, Leslea
The Things they carried (1990)
O'Brien, Tim
A Tale of Two Daddies (2010)
Oelschlager, Vanita
Beet Fields: Memries of a Sixteenth Summer (1998)
Paulsen, Gary
My Sister's Keeper (2004)
Picoult, Jodi
This day in June (2014)
Pitman, Gayle
All American Boys (2015)
Reynolds, Jason, and Brendan Kiely
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and you (2020)
Reynolds, Jason, and Ibram X. Kendi
Ghost Boys (2018)
Rhodes, Jewell Parker
Jazz Jennings: Voice for LGBTQ Youth (2017)
Rodger, Ellen
Of Mice and Men (1937)
Steinbeck, John
Wings of Fire Series (2012)
Sutherland, Tui T.
Hedgehug: A Sharp lesson in love (2011)
Sutton, Benn, and Dan Pinto
Roll of Thunder, Hear me Cry (1976)
Taylor, Mildred
The Cay (1969)
Taylor Theodore
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy (2019)
Terciero, Ray
Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again (2015)
Trump, Donald
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
Twain, Mark
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
Vonnegut, Kurt
Montana 1948 (1993)
Watson, Larry
This Field Report compiles public bans and challenges to books, programs, displays, and other materials in libraries and schools that were reported in the news or recorded in public records. Each description includes a citation, and notes, when available, whether the challenged resource was retained or banned.
Since the 1990s, the American Library Association (ALA) has been recording reports of attempts to remove materials and services in libraries and schools. Many of the reports request confidential support, as some librarians and educators fear repercussions for defending the freedom to read. In a time when many libraries and schools closed or moved their activities and services online because of the COVID-19 pandemic, ALA tracked 156 challenges to library, school, and university materials and services in 2020, threatening access to 273 books. The Field Report includes 58 public challenges. - Banned & Challenged Books Field Report 2020
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