Banning a Book Near You

Hopkins told me she has received thousands of letters from teenagers who say her books helped them turn their lives around. She also said she is seeing an uptick in attempts by individual parents to ban books by her and other authors, and she thinks she knows why. Full Story »

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Jim Lang
3.6
by Jim Lang - Oct. 3, 2009

This is a nicely written piece about an author's talk to students that was banned because of a single parent's protest and the manner in which the school librarian handled it. It's an example rather than a treatise on the subject of book banning but the example is warmly told.

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