Banned Book Week 2010
Posted: September 9th, 2010, 11:37 pm
Banned Book Week 2010 is coming up, September 25 and October 2, and one of my favorite book bloggers, Steph Su at: http://stephsureads.blogspot.com/ is hosting a Banned Book Week Reading Challenge that I've signed up to be a part of. There are already quite a few other bloggers signed up and I think it is going to be an exciting month of books and conversations about books.
Here's a link to her challenge: http://stephsureads.blogspot.com/2010/0 ... ading.html
So I'm curious what other events are taking place on blogs, websites, in your local libraries, schools, and book shops? It feels like this topic is pretty strong right now, particularly after what happened in Humble, Texas with Ellen Hopkins.
If any of you are doing anything special for Banned Book Week, please share! This is a subject that is near and dear to my heart. My husband is a high school English teacher and we discuss books, book challenges and parent reactions all the time. I hate the idea of kids not being allowed access to books or a parent being denied the ability to decide for their own kid what is appropriate and what isn't. As someone who very much wants to publish books for teens, I can't imagine what the authors themselves go through when their books are challenged or banned. I can imagine few things worse than being told not only will kids not be allowed access to your book, but that it has been judged inappropriate and damaging to them.
The 7 books and 1 short story I've chosen to read for the Banned Book Week Reading Challenge are:
* The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
* The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
* Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
* Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway
* The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
* The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
* Feed by M.T. Anderson
* Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
The post I'm keeping track of reviews, reactions, discussions as I read these books is here if anyone is interested: http://sommerleigh.com/?p=1089
Here's a link to her challenge: http://stephsureads.blogspot.com/2010/0 ... ading.html
So I'm curious what other events are taking place on blogs, websites, in your local libraries, schools, and book shops? It feels like this topic is pretty strong right now, particularly after what happened in Humble, Texas with Ellen Hopkins.
If any of you are doing anything special for Banned Book Week, please share! This is a subject that is near and dear to my heart. My husband is a high school English teacher and we discuss books, book challenges and parent reactions all the time. I hate the idea of kids not being allowed access to books or a parent being denied the ability to decide for their own kid what is appropriate and what isn't. As someone who very much wants to publish books for teens, I can't imagine what the authors themselves go through when their books are challenged or banned. I can imagine few things worse than being told not only will kids not be allowed access to your book, but that it has been judged inappropriate and damaging to them.
The 7 books and 1 short story I've chosen to read for the Banned Book Week Reading Challenge are:
* The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
* The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
* Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
* Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway
* The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
* The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
* Feed by M.T. Anderson
* Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
The post I'm keeping track of reviews, reactions, discussions as I read these books is here if anyone is interested: http://sommerleigh.com/?p=1089