{"id":1561,"date":"2016-09-22T14:17:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T18:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/?p=1561"},"modified":"2016-09-22T14:17:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T18:17:03","slug":"banned-books-week-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/?p=1561","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books Week 2016!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stand up for your right to read! Read a banned book. Artwork courtesy of the American Library Association<\/p><\/div>\n

Every year books in libraries and schools across the country are challenged. Celebrate you freedom to read anything<\/i> you want!<\/p>\n

The top ten most frequently challenged books of 2015 are:<\/h2>\n
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  1. Looking for Alaska<\/i>, by John Green<\/li>\n
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    Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited for age group.<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n
  2. Fifty Shades of Grey<\/i>, by E. L. James<\/li>\n
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    Reasons: Sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, and other (\u201cpoorly written,\u201d \u201cconcerns that a group of teenagers will want to try it\u201d).<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n
  3. I Am Jazz<\/i>, by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings<\/li>\n
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    Reasons: Inaccurate, homosexuality, sex education, religious viewpoint, and unsuited for age group.<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n
  4. Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out<\/i>, by Susan Kuklin<\/li>\n
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    Reasons: Anti-family, offensive language, homosexuality, sex education, political viewpoint, religious viewpoint, unsuited for age group, and other (\u201cwants to remove from collection to ward off complaints\u201d).<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n
  5. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time<\/i>, by Mark Haddon<\/li>\n
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    Reasons: Offensive language, religious viewpoint, unsuited for age group, and other (\u201cprofanity and atheism\u201d).<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n
  6. The Holy Bible<\/i><\/li>\n
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    Reasons: Religious viewpoint.<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n
  7. Fun Home<\/i>, by Alison Bechdel<\/li>\n
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    Reasons: Violence and other (\u201cgraphic images\u201d).<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n
  8. Habibi<\/i>, by Craig Thompson<\/li>\n
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    Reasons: Nudity, sexually explicit, and unsuited for age group.<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n
  9. Nasreen\u2019s Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan<\/i>, by Jeanette Winter<\/li>\n
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    Reasons: Religious viewpoint, unsuited to age group, and violence.<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n
  10. Two Boys Kissing<\/i>, by David Levithan<\/li>\n
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    Reasons: Homosexuality and other (\u201ccondones public displays of affection\u201d).<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/ol>\n

    The Top Ten Most Frequently Challenged Books is compiled by the Office of Intellectual Freedom at the American Library Association. http:\/\/www.ala.org\/bbooks\/frequentlychallengedbooks\/top10<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Every year books in libraries and schools across the country are challenged. Celebrate you freedom to read anything you want! The top ten most frequently challenged books of 2015 are: Looking for Alaska, by John Green Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited for age group. Fifty Shades of Grey, by E. L. James Reasons: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thomas-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}