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The American Library Association (ALA) has released its annual list of the most frequently challenged library books of the year. We’ve linked to free samples of all the books on the list–follow the links below to read these controversial books yourself.
The list was part of the ALA’s 2013 State of America’s Libraries Report. During the past year, the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom received 464 reports of challenged books. Here’s more from the report:
In California, a school committee voted to remove the Stephen King novella “Different Seasons” from Rocklin High School library shelves. The lone dissenter on that committee was 17-year-old student Amanda Wong, who continued to fight the ban and spoke against the decision at a later school board meeting. After hearing Wong’s concerns that the removal “opens a door to censoring other materials,” the district superintendent overturned the committee’s decision and returned the book to the Rocklin High School library’s collection.
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What a powerful collection of short stories! Alexie really stretches his wings and explores fascinating new territories, while at the same time revamping his old works by placing them in new contexts. I was completely blown away by Mr. Alexie, as usual. Books mentioned in this post $27.00 New Hardcover add to wish list Blasphemy: New [...]
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Best Selling Kids’ Books & New Releases
By Bianca Schulze, The Children’s Book Review
Published: December 1, 2012
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20 of the Best Kids Christmas Books
Oliver Jeffers on Writing, Illustrating, and Bookmaking
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How Picture Books Play a Role in a Child’s Development
20 Sites to Improve Your Child’s Literacy
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Pandora the Curious (Goddess Girls)
By Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams
Ages 8-12
Huggy Kissy
By Leslie Patricelli
Ages 1-3
The Twilight Saga White Collection
By Stephenie Meyer
Ages 14 and up
The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book 5: Trust No One
By Linda Sue Park
Ages 9-12
Deadly Little Lessons
By Laurie Faria Stolarz
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THE BEST SELLERS
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This Is Not My Hat
by Jon Klassen
Ages 4-8
Pete the Cat Saves Christmas
By Eric Litwin
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Llama Llama Time to Share
By Anna Dewdney
Ages 3-5
Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site
By Sherri Duskey Rinker (Author), Tom Lichtenheld (Illustrator)
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Olivia and the Fairy Princesses
by Ian Falconer
(Ages 3-7)
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CHAPTER BOOKS
“Who Could That Be at This Hour?”
By Lemony Snicket
Ages 9-12
LEGO Ninjago: Character Encyclopedia
by DK Publishing
Ages 6-12
Lincoln’s Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
by Bill O’Reilly
Ages 10-15
Wonder
by R.J. Palacio
Ages 8-12
Insurgent (Divergent)
by Veronica Roth
Ages 14 and up
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PAPERBACK BOOKS
Divergent
by Veronica Roth
Ages 14 and up
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
by Stephen Chbosky
Ages 14 and up
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
Ages 14 and up
Thirteen Reasons Why
by Jay Asher
Ages 12 and up
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie
Ages 12 and up
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SERIES BOOKS
Hunger Games Trilogy
By Suzanne Collins
Ages 12 and up
Dork Diaries
By Rachel Renee Russell
Ages 9-12
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
By Jeff Kinney
Ages 9 to 12
The Heroes of Olympus: The Demigod Diaries
by Rick Riordan
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Matched Trilogy
By Ally Condie
Ages 14-17
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Here are some literary events to jump-start your week. To get your event posted on our calendar, visit our Facebook Your Literary Event page. Please post your event at least one week prior to its date.
Sherman Alexie will be speaking about his new collection, Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories at Barnes & Noble Union Square. See him on Monday, October 15th starting 7 p.m. (New York, NY)
The next installment of the Franklin Park Reading Series will feature Emma Straub, Michael Kimball and more. Hear them on Monday, October 15th at the Franklin Park Bar and Beer Garden starting 8 p.m. (Brooklyn, NY)
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[Note: A chronological list of links to AICL's coverage of the shut-down of the Mexican American Studies Department at Tucson Unified School District is here. Information about the national Mexican American Studies Teach-in is here. The best source for daily updates out of Tucson is blogger David Abie Morales at Three Sonorans.]
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Do you know someone in a self-involved bubble that insulates them from the fact that our civil rights are under assault by well-funded conservative politicians? If so, tell them about what is happening in Tucson, where the conservative-power-elite wrote, passed, and enforced a law banning the perspectives of Mexican Americans...
Where that same conservative-power-elite is now trying to get
a law passed (SB 1202) that prohibits teachers from teaching partisan documents like Barack Obama's 2004 DNC speech in social justice courses...
And where that same conservative-power-elite is also trying to pass a
law that prohibits teachers from using words that violate the obscenity and profanity guidelines set up by the Federal Communications Commission.
If passed, what will that mean for teachers who teach young adult literature that has the F-word in it?
Who is among that conservative-power-elite? The Chicago Tribune article points to Floyd Brown, the founding chairman of Citizens United. He complained to school administrators that a teacher used the F-word in class, but, he says, they didn't take him seriously. So he went to Klein, and now, that complaint is a bill that has passed one committee and will be voted on by the house and senate in Arizona... The photo that accompanies the Trib article shows Brown and his now-home-schooled daughter, sitting before a pile of books that includes William J. Bennett's
Our Sacred Honor: Words of Advice from the Founders in Stories, Letters, Poems, and Speeches. I wonder if that book would be in violation of the "partisan" documents bill?!
There are people who don't think either bill will pass. They might not, this first round. The Ethnic Studies law didn't pass the first two times it was considered. Third time? It passed and was signed into law by Jan Brewer.
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The Toronto Librarians are on strike. There is no need to panic… Ahhhhhhhh! Failing to reach a labour agreement over the weekend 2,400 librarians went on strike. All 98 library branches across Toronto are close as of Monday. The library is asking borrowers to hold on to all checked out books and materials. No overdue [...]
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During the past year, the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom received 326 reports of “attempts to remove or restrict materials from school curricula and library bookshelves.” The list was part of the ALA’s 2012 State of America’s Libraries Report.
Here’s more eBook news from the report: “The rapid growth of ebooks has stimulated increasing demand for them in libraries, but libraries only have limited access to ebooks because of restrictions placed on their use by publishers. Macmillan Publishing, Simon and Schuster and Hachette Book Group refused to sell ebooks to libraries. HarperCollins imposed an arbitrary 26 loans per ebook license, and Penguin refused to let libraries lend its new titles altogether. When Random House raised ebook prices, the ALA urged it to reconsider.”
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The American Library Association (ALA) has released its annual list of the most frequently challenged library books of the year. We’ve linked to free samples of all the books on the list–follow the links below to read these controversial books yourself.
During the past year, the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom received 326 reports of “attempts to remove or restrict materials from school curricula and library bookshelves.” The list was part of the ALA’s 2012 State of America’s Libraries Report.
Here’s more eBook news from the report: “The rapid growth of ebooks has stimulated increasing demand for them in libraries, but libraries only have limited access to ebooks because of restrictions placed on their use by publishers. Macmillan Publishing, Simon and Schuster and Hachette Book Group refused to sell ebooks to libraries. HarperCollins imposed an arbitrary 26 loans per ebook license, and Penguin refused to let libraries lend its new titles altogether. When Random House raised ebook prices, the ALA urged it to reconsider.”
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The American Library Association (ALA) has released its annual list of the most frequently challenged library books of the year. We’ve linked to free samples of all the books on the list–follow the links below to read these controversial books yourself.
During the past year, the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom received 326 reports of “attempts to remove or restrict materials from school curricula and library bookshelves.” The list was part of the ALA’s 2012 State of America’s Libraries Report.
Here’s more eBook news from the report: “The rapid growth of ebooks has stimulated increasing demand for them in libraries, but libraries only have limited access to ebooks because of restrictions placed on their use by publishers. Macmillan Publishing, Simon and Schuster and Hachette Book Group refused to sell ebooks to libraries. HarperCollins imposed an arbitrary 26 loans per ebook license, and Penguin refused to let libraries lend its new titles altogether. When Random House raised ebook prices, the ALA urged it to reconsider.”
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By Bianca Schulze, The Children’s Book Review
Published: June 2, 2012
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Best Young Adult Books with Forever Young Adult
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Bink and Gollie, Two for One
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Dork Diaries 4: Tales from a Not-So-Graceful Ice Princess
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Dragons Love Tacos
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By Bianca Schulze, The Children’s Book Review
Published: September 3, 2012
Here’s the scoop on the most popular destinations on The Children’s Book Review site, the most coveted new releases and bestsellers.
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Gearing Up for Kindergarten
Best Halloween Books for Kids: Scary, Spooky, and Silly
Review: Scat by Carl Hiaasen
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Llama Llama Time to Share
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Pete the Cat Saves Christmas
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Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs: As Retold by Mo Willems
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Shatterproof (The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers, Book 4)
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Caught (Missing)
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The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
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Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons
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I Want My Hat Back
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Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site
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Press Here
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The Heroes of Olympus: The Demigod Diaries
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Insurgent (Divergent)
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The Fault in our Stars
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Wonder
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Heroes of Olympus, The, Book Two: The Son of Neptune
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Divergent
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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The Book Thief
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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Hunger Games Trilogy
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Maximum Ride
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Dork Diaries
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid
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Percy Jackson & the Olympians
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This information was gathered from the New York Times Best Sellers list, which reflects the sales of books from books sold nationwide, including independent and chain stores. It is correct at the time of publication and presented in random order. Visit: www.nytimes.com.
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Sherman Alexie's recent Writer's Digest blog entry has been getting a lot of love on facebook this week. My personal favorite from his list is #5, but I am here to talk about item #4 -- that dreaded eight-letter word, research.
I teach college English composition, and many of my students are loath to use any resource besides google; to visit the library, to open a book, to take a note, to thoughtfully examine both sides of the issue, and certainly to develop more than the most cursory familiarity with a proposed topic before beginning to write about it.
We all live in an age where research has become exponentially easier than it has ever been. When I began working as a writers' assistant at Days of Our Lives, our office was Internet-free. If I needed information about crime, I called the Burbank PD; if I needed to know about brain surgery, I actually bothered a neurosurgeon at USC. My bookshelf remains stocked with resources such as the writers' friendly guide to poisons and committing the perfect murder. However, I have not used these in a very long time, as now the information is literally at my fingertips.
Nowadays it is so easy to take a shortcut -- to avoid talking to real-live person when it is truly necessary to talk to a real-live person. Through the years, I have learned that research is not my forte or really my interest. I have also gotten used to approaching it from a soap-writer angle -- yes, it is incredibly unlikely, but is there a one-in-a-billion chance that it could happen? Great, we'll do it!
I pretty much only write contemporary fiction (partly due to my incorporating-research aversion), but I haven't been able to avoid the exercise entirely. Lately I've made use of the virtual Walters Art Gallery, codebreaking websites, and Google Maps. In the past, I've ridden roller coasters at Hershey Park and taken ice skating lessons to put myself in Nancy Drew's shoes. My favorite type of research, though, comes from reading fiction (back to Alexie's item #4) and seeing how other writers have approached similar material or particular writing challenges.
From what I understand, it is fairly common for writers to get mired in the research phase of a story, to use the library or the Internet as an escape from the harder work of filling a blank page with words. I am perhaps that unique soul who suffers from perhaps an oxymoronic-sounding problem: I can avoid with the best of them, yet I still seem never to do quite enough (or quite the right) research.
In short, I definitely think Alexie has a point. And I am eager to see what the historical fiction, sci-fi, and non-fiction writers among us have to say on this subject as the week goes on.
Also... Don't forget to enter our Guest Teaching Author Book Giveaway to win an autographed copy of Who’s Faster? Animals on the Move by Eileen Meyer.
Have a great week, and happy writing! --Jeanne Marie
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By Bianca Schulze, The Children’s Book Review
Published: August 1, 2010
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Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games)
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Artemis Fowl 7: The Atlantis Complex
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The 39 Clues, Book 10: Into the Gauntlet
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Fancy Nancy and the Delectable Cupcakes
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“They say there is strangeness too dangerous in our theaters and bookstore shelves…Those who know what’s best for us must rise and save us from ourselves…” – from “Witch Hunt” by Rush
Yes folks, it’s September, and that means two things are certain: students are back in school, and potential censors and book challengers are coming out of the woodwork. Recent challenges to Sherman Alexie’s “Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” and Laurie Halse Anderson’s “Speak” were just the first to greet the new school year. Interestingly enough, this last week of September is Banned Books Week, and therefore the perfect time think about the potential for censorship, and whether you’re ready for that challenge if it comes your way.
While we often think of Intellectual Freedom as a rather high-minded concept (and it is. don’t get me wrong…), it is, in a lot of ways, a management issue. The most important thing you can have in place to deflect censorship is an up-to-date collection development policy and a clear set of channels set up for a patron or parent to issue a challenge. Sometimes a calm explanation of your policy may be enough to deflect the issue. Many potential censors are simply concerned parents who’ve gone a touch bonkers over something they saw in a book their child was reading, and being concerned for your children’s well-being is never, EVER wrong. A little conversation on the issue can often go a long way. But some are determined, and there are folks out there with all sorts of agendas who would love to take lots of books off of our shelves. So what to do if that challenge is issued? Fear not! You’ve got lots of help…
First, check out YALSA’s Intellectual Freedom resource page. It will direct you to much of what you need to deal with and report a challenge.
ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom exists to help you, educate you, and back you up in the event of a challenge. Their resources are invaluable.
Additional resources compiled by YALSA’s Intellectual Freedom Committee are available on the YALSA Wiki:
In addition, I highly recommend you become a member of YALSA’s Intellectual Freedom Interest Group. Formerly the IF Committee, this group will be a broader and more open way for YALSA members to keep themselves and their colleagues well informed and ready to understand and face potential censors and challengers.
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Two weeks ago I drove up to Nashville, TN to speak with Jewell Parker Rhodes at the Southern Festival of Books. Not only did I get to meet a wonderful author, but I was able to spend some quality time with my younger brother and take him to his very first book festival. On the way up we listened to Sherman Alexie‘s THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART TIME INDIAN. A few years back Chris Myers introduced me to Sherman Alexie’s poetry, specifically his list poems. He’s an outstanding storyteller and all of his accolades are so well deserved.
We stopped in Chattanooga to eat and visit the Hunter Museum of American Art. My brother was “blown away” (pun intended) by the Stephen Rolfe Powell glass sculpture exhibit. Along with the live glass exhibit, there was a viewing area that showed videos about Chihuly and other glass artists and their work. Needless to say, we both walked away wanting to be glass artists for at least a day.
In the permanent collection was also a Thomas Hart Benton and an impressive Radcliffe Bailey piece on display among many other wonderful works of art.
After leaving the museum we stopped for a bite of sushi and headed on up to Nashville. We were hosted by two of the nicest folks I’ve ever met in the book world, Robin Smith and Dean Schnieder (of “The Dean’s List”). Robin gave me a tour of her lovely home that’s full of books and ART! while Dean and my brother chewed the fat over funky jazz tunes. The next morning Robin and Dean hosted breakfast with homemade lemony cinnamon rolls, egg soufflé, and coffee! The table was abuzz with conversation from some very cool folks like Deb Wiles (whose blog I’m referring to in aiding my memory) Ellen Wittlinger; Squire Babcock from Murray, Kentucky; Ellen’s husband, David (the photographer); Robin; Ellen’s daughter, Kate Pritchard; and her brand-new husband, Mark Letcher. What a way to start the day.
Shortly after breakfast we were off to work! Jewell Parker Rhodes is a delight of a lady. The only thing better than reading NINTH WARD is listening to Jewell read from NINTH WARD and hear her motivation behind the book. After our talk we signed a few books and said our goodbyes.
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Love this, JM:
>>yes, it is incredibly unlikely, but is there a one-in-a-billion chance that it could happen?<<
I recently contacted a real, live person to ask a plausibility question for my YA novel. Maybe I'll talk about that when I post on this topic. :-)