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Banned books are books or other printed works such as essays or plays which have been prohibited by law, or to which free access has been restricted by other means. The practice of banning books is a form of censorship , from political, legal, religious, moral, or commercial motives.
Since 2001, the American Library Association has posted the top ten most frequently challenged books per year on their website. [4] Using the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century, ALA has also noted banned and challenged classics. [5] The ALA does not claim comprehensiveness in recording challenges.
Banned Books Museum; Book burning; List of book-burning incidents; Nazi book burnings; Burning of books and burying of scholars; Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parlament of England; Index Librorum Prohibitorum; List of most commonly challenged books in the United States
It's Banned Books Week, an annual effort by the American Library Association to raise awareness about censorship.. Each year, the ALA creates a top 10 list of the most challenged books filed by ...
Banned Books Week offers a moment to reflect on the power of the free word. Launched in 1982, the observance served as an answer to a rising number of book challenges across libraries, bookstores ...
The annual event is meant to bring the book community together in support of literature and the need for having free and open access to information.
Books Unbanned is a United States library program that issues library cards nationwide from regional libraries in order to give electronic access to the library's digital and audio collections to teens and young adults living in U.S. locations where books are being challenged.
A group of adults, whether it be parents or teachers, finds a book’s content to be so offensive that they call for it to be pulled from shelves, taken off syllabi or even banned entirely from ...