Banned Books Week
Do you love a book that's been banned or challenged?
| To Kill a Mockingbird Lee, Harper 1988-01 - Warner Books 9780446310789 CHECK CATALOG
The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic. Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior-to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 15 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature. …More |
| The Kite Runner Hosseini, Khaled 2003-01 - Riverhead Books 9781594480003 CHECK CATALOG
Alex Award Winner - 2004 |
| My Sister's Keeper Picoult, Jodi 2005-02 - Washington Square Press 9780743454537 CHECK CATALOG 2005 ALA Young Adult Top Ten Selection
Written with grace, wisdom, and sensitivity, this novel is about a teen who was conceived as a bone marrow match for her sister Kate, and what happens when she begins to question who she really is. …More |
| The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them The Freedom Writers With Gruwell, Erin Foreword by Filipovic, Zlata 2006-12 - Broadway Books 9780767924900 CHECK CATALOG
Shocked by the teenage violence she witnessed during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, Erin Gruwell became a teacher at a high school rampant with hostility and racial intolerance. For many of these students-whose ranks included substance abusers, gang members, the homeless, and victims of abuse-Gruwell was the first person to treat them with dignity, to believe in their potential and help them see it themselves. Soon, their loyalty towards their teacher and burning enthusiasm to help end violence and intolerance became a force of its own. Inspired by reading "The Diary of Anne Frank" and meeting Zlata Filipovic (the eleven-year old girl who wrote of her life in Sarajevo during the civil war), the students began a joint diary of their inner-city upbringings. Told through anonymous entries to protect their identities and allow for complete candor, "The Freedom Writers Diary "is filled with astounding vignettes from 150 students who, like civil rights activist Rosa Parks and the Freedom Riders, heard society tell them where to go-and refused to listen.
Proceeds from this book benefit the Freedom Writers Foundation, an organization set up to provide scholarships for underprivieged youth and to train teachers …More |
| The Lovely Bones Sebold, Alice 2009-09 - Back Bay Books 9780316044936 CHECK CATALOG
Sebolds mesmerizing and luminous first novel--a #1 national bestseller--builds a tale filled with hope, humor, suspense, and even joy, following an unspeakable tragedy. …More |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2009-07 - Arthur A. Levine Books 9780545139700 CHECK CATALOG
Rowling's stunning conclusion to her bestselling Harry Potter series is now available in paperback. As a farewell to the series, "Deathly Hallows" is everything fans of Harry Potter could hope for.--"Time." …More |
| The Color Purple Walker, Alice 2006-11 - Harvest Books 9780156031820 CHECK CATALOG
Banner] Now a Tony Award-Winning Broadway Musical "Intense emotional impact . . . Indelibly affecting . . . Alice Walker is a lavishly gifted writer."--"The New York Times Book Review |
| Prep Sittenfeld, Curtis 2005-11 - Random House Trade 9780812972351 CHECK CATALOG
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| The Tenth Circle Picoult, Jodi Illustrator Weaver, Dustin 2006-03 - Atria Books 9780743496704 CHECK CATALOG
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| Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem Miller, Arthur Introduction by Bigsby, C. W. E. 1998-05 - Penguin Books 9780141180977 CHECK CATALOG
A Great Books Discussion Selection The tragedy of a typical American--a salesman who at the age of sixty-three is faced with what he cannot face; defeat and disillusionment. …More |
| The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Alexie, Sherman Illustrator Forney, Ellen 2009-04 - Little, Brown Young Readers 9780316013697 CHECK CATALOG
Alexie's National Book Award winner chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he thought he was destined to live. Includes poignant drawings that reflect the character's art. …More |
| Invisible Man Ellison, Ralph Waldo Introduction by Ellison, Ralph Waldo 1995-03 - Vintage Books USA 9780679732761 CHECK CATALOG
Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century. The nameless narrator of the novel describes growing up in a black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of "the Brotherhood," and retreating amid violence and confusion to the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be. The book is a passionate and witty tour de force of style, strongly influenced by T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Joyce, and Dostoevsky. …More |
| Beloved Morrison, Toni 1987-08 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780394535975 CHECK CATALOG
Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby--is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their dazzling language and their lyric and emotional force, combine the unassailable truths of experience and emotion with the vision of legend and imagination. |
| The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger, J. D. 1951-07 - Little Brown and Company 9780316769532 CHECK CATALOG
The hero-narrator of "The Catcher in the Rye" is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices -- but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep. …More |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain, Mark 2005-01 - Saddleback Educational Publishing, Inc. 9781562549060 CHECK CATALOG
This Graphic Novel Series features classic tales retold with attractive color illustrations. Educatiors using the Dale-Chall vocabulary system adapted each title. Each 70 page, softcover book retains key phrases and quotations from the original classics. Introduce literature to reluctant readers and motivate struggling readers. Students build confidence through reading practice. Motivation makes all the difference. What's more motivation then the expectation of success? …More |
| Cradle and All Patterson, James 2000-01 - Warner Books 9780446609401 CHECK CATALOG
Former nun and private detective Anne Fitzgerald investigates the mysterious "virginal pregnancies" of two young women, one in Rhode Island and the other in Ireland. Only the Pope knows that one of the women will give birth to the Messiah, and the other the child of Satan. Anne searches for the truth to save the women, and possibly herself. …More |
| Slaughterhouse-Five Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. 1991-11 - San Val 9780808514572 CHECK CATALOG
Launched in November, Dell's Kurt Vonnegut reissue program continues with one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know. …More |
| Of Mice and Men Steinbeck, John 1993-01 - Penguin Books 9780140177398 CHECK CATALOG
A Great Books Discussion Selection Tragic tale of a retarded man and the friend who loves and tries to protect him. With illustrations from the movie starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinise. …More |
| Animal Dreams Kingsolver, Barbara 1997-12 - Buccaneer Books 9781568496924 CHECK CATALOG
From the acclaimed author of The Bean Trees and Homeland, comes a powerful story of love and courage in an exotc southwestern landscape. Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American myths, thisis a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life's greatest commitments. …More |
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