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Aiken Standard

Location

Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America

Date

Sep 14, 1995

Page

3

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.

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.

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.

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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