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A PSA from Dav Pilkey, author of the Captain Underpants series, on Banned Books

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A PSA from Dav Pilkey, author of the Captain Underpants series, on Banned Books

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What Banned Books have you read in your life?

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What Banned Books have you read in your life?

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Add a post to this padlet page of a book that you have read that is banned. Check out this link to see if they have been banned before: http://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10

Harry Potter
Scarlet Letter
Speak
Catcher in the Rye

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Who usually puts in a challenge against a book? (Part 2)

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Who usually puts in a challenge against a book? (Part 2)

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Charts from American Library Association.

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Who usually puts in a challenge against a book? (Part 1) 

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Who usually puts in a challenge against a book? (Part 1) 

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Charts from American Library Association.

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Banned books, according to the American Library Association, are books that have been "challenge[d in] an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group [or physically] remov[ed] of those materials" (ALA). Books are challenged to become banned. These "challenges do not simply involve a person expressing a point of view; rather, they are an attempt to remove material from the curriculum or library, thereby restricting the access of others" (ALA).

Fun Fact! The first book that was ever banned was Thomas Morton's New English Canaan, which was published around 1637, long before the recent censorship laws were ever placed into effect. It was banned due to compassion towards Native Americans and general satire within the book.