Banned Books Week Sparks Debate On Teen Reading
The article discusses book banning and censorship, noting the ALA’s Banned Books Week and 1994 challenges totaling 760 across schools and libraries. It cites Pat Scales and Patty Hart on censorship impact, with examples from The Little Mermaid to Private Parts and My Brother Sam Is Dead.
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Chicago
J.D. Salinger
Pat Scales
Greenville Middle School
American Library Association
ALA
Office of Intellectual Freedom
Dersen
Howard Stern
Patty Hart
St. Scholastica High School
Scales
Christopher Collier
My Brother
Sam
Banned and Challenged Books From 1994 95
American Library Association lists repeat offenses for titles such as A Thousand Acres Mermaid Little House on the Prairie Grimm tales The Chocolate War I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Bridge to Terabithia and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman with criticisms ranging from lack of literary value to profanity sexual content offensive language and racial slurs across diverse genres and authors.
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Jane Smiley
Little House On the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Brothers Grimm
Jacob and
Wilhelm K. Grimm
Robert Cormier
Maya Angelou
Katherine Paterson
Terabithia
Jane Pittman
Ernest Gaines
Hootie Says Band Seeks Political Silence on Palmetto Honor
Hootie & the Blowfish urge dropping controversy over an Order of the Palmetto nomination. Darius Rucker and Jim Sonefeld decline political involvement, stressing artists avoid political campaigns while meeting reporters at the University of South Carolina amid calls from Sen. Darrell Jackson for the award.
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Columbia
Hootie & the Blowfish
South Carolina
David Beasley
Wau
Jim Sonefeld
Sonefeld
Darius Rucker
University of South Carolina
Beasley
Darrell Jackson
Order of the Palmetto
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Public Library
Hans Christian Andersen
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Hootie
Wachovia
JB White
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