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Libraries, Censorship, and Freedom to Read
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Libraries,
Censorship, Freedom to Read
"Books are subversive,
mind-altering substances!" -- Timothy Leary, Ph.D.
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Here's
the list of this 2004's
most frequently banned books:
1. Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
2. Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
4. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by MarkTwain
6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
7. Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
8. Forever by Judy Blume
9. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
10. Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
11. Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
12. My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier &
Christopher Collier
13. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
14. The Giver by Lois Lowry
15. It's Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
16. Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
17. A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
18. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
19. Sex by Madonna
20. Earth's Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
21. The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
22. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
23. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
24. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
25. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
26. The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard
27. The Witches by Roald Dahl
28. The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
29. Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
30. The Goats by Brock Cole
31. Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
32. Blubber by Judy Blume
33. Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
34. Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
35. We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
36. Final Exit by Derek Humphry
37. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
38. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
39. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
40. What's Happening to my Body? Book for Girls:
A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by
Lynda Madaras
41. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
42. Beloved by Toni Morrison
43. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
44. The Pigman by Paul Zindel
45. Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
46. Deenie by Judy Blume
47. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
48. Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
49. The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
50. Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin
Schwartz
51. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
52. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
53. Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne
Rice)
54. Asking About Sex & Growing Up by Joanna Cole
55. Cujo by Stephen King
56. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
57. The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
58. Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
59. Ordinary People by Judith Guest
60. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
61. What's Happening to my Body? Book for Boys:
A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by
Lynda
Madaras
62. Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret,
by Judy
Blume
63. Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
64. Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
65. Fade by Robert Cormier
66. Guess What? by Mem Fox
67. The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
68. The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
69. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
70. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
71. Native Son by Richard Wright
72. Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed
Women's Fantasies by Nancy Friday
73. Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
74. Jack by A.M. Homes
75. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
76. Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
77. Carrie by Stephen King
78. Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
79. On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
80. Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
81. Family Secrets by Norma Klein
82. Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole
83. The Dead Zone by Stephen King
84. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
85. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
86. Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
87. Private Parts by Howard Stern
88. Where's Waldo? by Martin Hanford
89. Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
90. Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
91. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
92. Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
93. Sex Education by Jenny Davis
94. The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
95. Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
96. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
97. View from the Cherry Tree, Willo Davis Roberts
98. The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
99. The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
100. Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier
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Big
Brother Knows What You've
Been Reading
Press
Release from ACLU
June 21, 2005
The Patriot Act's infamous Section 215 grants
the FBI the power to seize a vast array of
sensitive personal information and belongings
including medical, library and business records
using a secret intelligence court that does not
require any suspicion of individual criminal
activity. Although a court order is required to
obtain these records, judges are compelled to
issue them, making judicial review in this
process nothing more than a rubber stamp.
Take action now to urge your senators to
support proper checks and balances on overreaching government
surveillance.
The FBI can use this new power
to spy on innocent people. Those people forced by the FBI to
provide this information -- whether a newspaper editor, librarian
or website publisher -- could go to jail if they tell anybody
anything about it.
The government has gone to great
lengths to keep secret even the most basic information about the
FBI's spying. For example, in answering questions posed by the
House Judiciary Committee, then-Attorney General Ashcroft
classified information that should not have been classified,
including information that would have shown how often the FBI is
spying on people based on their exercise of First Amendment
rights.
Giving our government this kind
of power to spy on innocent people is un-American. We need to
build on our latest success and continue to push for much-needed
reforms of the Patriot Act.
Click here
to urge your senators to support
important legislation to help bring the
Patriot Act in line with the Constitution.
http://action.aclu.org/freedomtoread
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In response,
many booksellers have stopped keeping records of
book titles linked to personally identifiable
information, like credit cards and checking
account numbers.
If your receipt identifies
the
titles of your books,
buy the book in person,
and pay in CASH.
Note that Internet sales are
always identifiable.
Support your local bookstore!
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Also see:
Books
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Montana Legislature asks Libraries to Warn Patrons of Patriot Act
Provisions
By Christa Landon
Montana state legislators overwhelmingly passed a resolution
condemning the Patriot Act of 2001, calling all libraries in the
state to post a sign warning citizens that under the Patriot Act,
federal agents may force librarians to turn over a record of books
a person has checked out and never inform that citizen of the
request.
The resolution urges Montana law enforcement agencies not to
participate in any investigations that violate constitutional
rights, under the cloak of the Patriot Act. Further, the state
attorney general is requested to review any state intelligence
information and destroy it if is not tied directly to suspected
criminals, determine how many Montanans
have been arrested under the Patriot Act and how many Montana
citizens were unknowingly subject to government searches.
Source: JENNIFER McKEE, Billings Gazette
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