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Despite the opposition from the American Library Association (ALA), books continue to be banned by school and public libraries across the United States. This is usually the result of complaints from parents, who find particular books not appropriate for their children (e.g., books with depictions of LGBTQ+ individuals, like Gender Queer: A Memoir).
This list of the most commonly challenged books in the United States refers to books sought to be removed or otherwise restricted from public access, typically from a library or a school curriculum. This list is primarily based on U.S. data gathered by the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), which gathers data ...
Laura M. Justice (born October 9, 1968) is a language scientist and expert on interventions to promote children's literacy. She is the EHE Distinguished Professor of Educational Psychology at Ohio State University , [ 1 ] where she also serves as the Executive Director of the A. Sophie Rogers School for Early Learning.
The newspaper filed records requests with all 325 school districts in the state and found that nearly 3,400 books were removed because of the ban before a federal injunction halted enforcement in ...
The best children’s books have a way of altering the universe around them. ... A Guide to School Life for Tiny Pupils and their ... (2010), The Broken King (2014), and The Double Axe (2016). He ...
The Jane Addams Children's Book Award was originally awarded to one book per year without categories. A Picture Book category was added in 1993; the award is currently given to two books annually, one for older children and one for younger children.
The Children's Book of Virtues; Childtimes; Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters; Chrysanthemum (book) Chu Ju's House; The Churkendoose; Classic Myths; Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice; The Collected Poems of Freddy the Pig; Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun; The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories ...
This is a list of notable books by young authors and of books written by notable writers in their early years. These books were written, or substantially completed, before the author's twentieth birthday. Alexandra Adornetto (born 18 April 1994) wrote her debut novel, The Shadow Thief, when she was 13. It was published in 2007.