What are Banned Books?
What are Banned & Challenged Books?
Sometimes a person or a group of people object to a book because of something that is written in that book. A Challenge is when these people ask a Library to remove the book or to restrict access to the book. When that book is removed from the Library it has been Banned. We believe in your freedom to read what you want, when you. Celebrate your freedom to read by reading a challenged or banned book today!
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Professor Shane Trayers' favorite:
Call Number: PZ7.R79835 Halo 2003
ISBN: 9780439358071
Publication Date: 2004-09-01
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Professor Sharon Aiken's favorite:
Call Number: PS1305 .A1 2004
ISBN: 9780743487573
Publication Date: 2004-04-27
Two runaways, the white boy Huck and the black man Jim, join forces. Huck has fled an abusive father. Jim has fled slavery. In their quest for freedom, Huck and Jim travel down the Mississippi River, encountering many dangers. Will they escape oppression and abuse? Or will the powerful forces against them prove stronger than their brave defiance? - Back cover.
To help students experience the joys and benefits of reading, Townsend Press presents the Townsend Library - a collection of high-interest classics. Each Townsend Library book has been carefully edited to maintain the original story while updating language and style for today's readers. - Publisher.
To help students experience the joys and benefits of reading, Townsend Press presents the Townsend Library - a collection of high-interest classics. Each Townsend Library book has been carefully edited to maintain the original story while updating language and style for today's readers. - Publisher.
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Professors Heather Braun & Thom Harrison's favorite:
Call Number: PS3527.A15 L6 1997
ISBN: 9780679723165
Publication Date: 1989-03-13
The most controversial classic novel of the 20th century, Lolita tells the story of Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged man who is aroused to erotic desire only by a young girl. Awe and exhilaration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.
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Student Government President Johnathan Jackson's favorite:
Call Number: PR6029.R8 N4944 1987
ISBN: 1555460267
Publication Date: 1987-02-01
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Call Number: PS3566.E254 D34 2005
ISBN: 9780679853060
Publication Date: 1994-09-20
To a thirteen-year-old Vermont farm boy whose father slaughters pigs for a living, maturity comes early as he learns "doing what's got to be done," especially regarding his pet pig who cannot produce a litter.
Call Number: PS3557.R5355 T56 1992
ISBN: 9780440211723
Publication Date: 1992-06-01
A Southern town is shocked when a 10-year-old black girl is raped by two white men--until the girl's father takes the law into his own hands.
Call Number: PZ7.L5385 1962
ISBN: 0374386137
Publication Date: 1962-01-01
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
Call Number: PZ7.L5385 1962
ISBN: 0374386137
Publication Date: 1962-01-01
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
Call Number: PZ7.L86 A74 1970
ISBN: 9780440404194
Publication Date: 1986-06-01
Call Number: PR6015 .U9 B65 1969
ISBN: 9780061767647
Publication Date: 2010-01-19
Call Number: PZ7.A953 Fi 2004
ISBN: 9780064401852
Publication Date: 1987-05-15
Thirteen-year-old Jonathan goes off to fight in the Revolutionary War and discovers the real war is being fought within himself.
Call Number: PS3515.E37 F6 1968
ISBN: 9780684803357
Publication Date: 1995-07-01
Call Number: PZ7 .G534 1971
ISBN: 0671664581
Publication Date: 1971-09-14
Based on the diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user chronicling her struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.
Call Number: PS3503.A5527 G6 1980
ISBN: 9780440330073
Publication Date: 1985-11-10
Call Number: PS3551.N464 Z466 1993
ISBN: 9780553279375
Publication Date: 1983-04-01
Presents the story of a spirited and gifted, but poor, Black girl growing up in the South in the 1930's. Tells how she came into her own, experiencing prejudice, family difficulties, and a relationship with a teacher who taught her to respect books, learning, and herself.
Call Number: PZ7.G2933 Ju 2003
ISBN: 9780060540951
Publication Date: 2003-09-16
While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.
Call Number: PR6023.A93 L2 1959
ISBN: 9781477476512
Publication Date: 2012-05-15
Call Number: PS3552.U75 N3 2009
ISBN: 9780802119261
Publication Date: 2009-11-01
Bill Lee, an addict and hustler, travels to Mexico and then Tangier in order to find easy access to drugs, and ends up in the Interzone, a bizarre fantasy world, in an edition that features restored text, archival material, and an essay on psychoactive drugs.
Call Number: PS3537.T3234 O2 1993
ISBN: 9780881030372
Publication Date: 1999-10-01
Tells a story about the strange relationship of two migrant workers, who are able to realize their dreams of an easy life until one of them succumbs to his weakness for soft, helpless creatures and strangles the farmer's wife. Tragic tale of a retarded man and the friend who loves and tries to protect him.
Call Number: PS3561.E8 O5 1977
ISBN: 0140043128
Publication Date: 1977-08-25
Call Number: PS3557.U345 O7 1982
ISBN: 9780140065176
Publication Date: 1982-10-28
Seventeen-year-old Conrad returns home from a mental institution, where he was sent after his brother's accidental death and his own ensuing suicide attempt. to begin a new life he must learn to accept himself and those close to him.
Call Number: PZ7.T21723 Ro 2001
ISBN: 0803726473
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
Call Number: PZ7.A54385 .S6 2001
ISBN: 9780141310886
Publication Date: 2001-04-23
A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
Call Number: PZ7 .G742 1974
ISBN: 9780756967734
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Sheltering an escaped prisoner of war is the beginning of some shattering experiences for a twelve-year-old girl in Arkansas.
Call Number: PZ7.H5976 Th 1998
ISBN: 9780140389661
Publication Date: 1998-04-01
Sixteen-year-old Mark and Bryon have been like brothers since childhood, but now, as their involvement with girls, gangs, and drugs increases, their relationship seems to gradually disintegrate.
Call Number: PZ7.P63123 Ad 1997bx
ISBN: 9780590846288
Publication Date: 1997-09-01
When George and Harold hypnotize their principal into thinking that he is the superhero Captain Underpants, he leads them to the lair of the nefarious Dr. Diaper, where they must defeat his evil robot henchmen.
Call Number: PS1306 .A1 1964
ISBN: 9780486400778
Publication Date: 1998-01-27
Call Number: PS3563.O8749 B55 2007
ISBN: 9780307278449
Publication Date: 2007-05-08
Pecola Breedlove, a young eleven-year-old black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in. Yet as her dreams grow more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity.--from publisher's description.
Call Number: PS3523.O46 A6 1974
ISBN: 067170494X
Publication Date: 1989-11-01
Tells the story of the magnificent dog Buck, who is a loyal pet until cruel men make him a pawn in their feverish search for the gold of the Klondike, where he breaks free and becomes the leader of a ferocious wolf pack.
Call Number: PZ7.C81634 Ch 2000
ISBN: 9780375829871
Publication Date: 2004-09-14
A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies.
Call Number: PZ7.L9673 Gi 1993
ISBN: 9780395645666
Publication Date: 1993-04-26
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
Call Number: PZ7.P968 Go 1996
ISBN: 0679879242
Publication Date: 1996-04-16
Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.
Call Number: PZ7.P273 Gr 1987
ISBN: 0064402010
Publication Date: 1987-06-17
An eleven-year-old foster child tries to cope with her longings and fears as she schemes against everyone who tries to be friendly.
Call Number: PQ8090.1.L54 A432 1993
ISBN: 9780394539072
Publication Date: 1985-04-12
Call Number: PS3558.I549 O88 1997
ISBN: 9780670062515
Publication Date: 2007-09-06
The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.
Call Number: PS3515.E37 S8 1995
ISBN: 9780684800714
Publication Date: 1995-03-01
Hemingway's first bestselling novel, the story of a group of Americans and English on a sojourn from Paris to Paloma, evokes in poignant detail, life among the expatriates on Paris's Left Bank, during the 1920s and conveys in brutally realistic descriptions the power and danger of bullfighting in Spain.
Call Number: PS3565.B75 T48 1998
ISBN: 9780767902892
Publication Date: 1998-12-29
Heroic young men carry the emotional weight of their lives to war in Vietnam in a patchwork account of a modern journey into the heart of darkness.
Call Number: PR6019.O9 U4 1961
ISBN: 9781486143757
Publication Date: 2012-06-01
Call Number: PS3515.U789 T639 1987
ISBN: 1555460542
Publication Date: 1988-01-01
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