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2. Banned Books Week - Wikipedia

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   Banned Books Week is an annual awareness campaign promoted by the American Library Association and Amnesty International, that celebrates the freedom to read, [1] draws attention to banned and challenged books, [2] and highlights persecuted individuals. Held in late September or early October since 1982, the United States campaign "stresses the ...

3. Book banning in the United States (2021–present) - Wikipedia

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   Outcome. Banning of thousands of books from school libraries in many states. Starting in 2021, there have been a considerable number of books banned or challenged in parts of the United States. Most of the targeted books have to do with race, gender, and sexuality. Unlike most book challenges in the past, whereby parents or other stakeholders ...

4. List of books banned by governments - Wikipedia

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   Banned books are books or other printed works such as essays or plays which have been prohibited by law, or to which free access has been restricted by other means. The practice of banning books is a form of censorship, from political, legal, religious, moral, or commercial motives. This article lists notable banned books and works, giving a ...

5. Iowa book ban's toll: 3,400 pulled books, including '1984 ...

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   Sara Hayden Parris from Annie's Foundation distributes free banned books in Iowa to make challenged books more accessible during a Banned Book Wagon tour at Nevada Library on Wednesday, Nov. 15 ...

6. Author of the most-banned book in the U.S. speaks out: 'I ...

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   Book banning may sound like something out of a movie — think Footloose or Fahrenheit 451 — but it's something very real in modern-day America. Each year in September, the American Library ...

7. How the Des Moines Register has tracked banned books at ... - AOL

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   June 9, 2024 at 7:42 AM. In spring 2023, when the Iowa Legislature passed a sweeping new education law that bans nearly all books depicting sex acts from public schools, the Des Moines Register ...

8. List of most commonly challenged books in the United States

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   List. Since 2001, the American Library Association has posted the top ten most frequently challenged books per year on their website. Using the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century, ALA has also noted banned and challenged classics.

9. The 15 most banned books in America this school year

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   Here are 15 books PEN America says were most frequently banned in the first part of the 2022-23 school year. 1. “Gender Queer: A Memoir” by Maia Kobabe. This bestselling 2019 autobiography in ...