September 22 through 28 is National Banned Books Week, an annual event sponsored by the American Library Association. Check out one of these banned books from McKee Library today!
Call Number: Easy M379br
ISBN: 9780141501598
Publication Date: 1967
Banned by the State Board of Education in Texas in 2010 due to a simple mistake. A board member mixed up Martin with another author named Bill Martin who had written a book for adults titled "Ethical Marxism: The Categorical Imperative of Liberation."
Call Number: D810.J4 F715 1952
ISBN: 0553577123
Publication Date: 1997
In 1983, four members of the Alabama State Textbook Committee called for the book's rejection because it is "a real downer." In 1998, the book was removed for two months from Baker Middle School in Corpus Christi, TX after two books called the book pornographic.
Call Number: PS2954 .U5 2007
ISBN: 9780393059465
Publication Date: 2006-11-17
Uncle Tom's Cabin sold 300,000 copies in the North alone. The Fugitive Slave Law, passed in 1850, could hardly be enforced by any of Stowe's readers. Although banned in most of the south, it served as another log on the growing fire.
Call Number: PS3551 .N464 Z466 2009
ISBN: 0345514408
Publication Date: 2009-04-21
In 1983, it was banned because the Alabama State Textbook Committee determined it incited ''bitterness and hatred toward white people.''
Call Number: PS1305 .A1 2010
ISBN: 1514637618
Publication Date: 2015-06-21
First published in February of 1885, the work was banned by March when librarians in Concord, Massachusetts deemed it “trash” and “suitable only for the slums.” This was the first book that was officially banned in the United States.
Call Number: PR6029.R8 A7 1946
ISBN: 0679420398
Publication Date: 1993-05-25
A Wisconsin survey stated that the John Birch Society had challenged the novel's use in 1965, objecting to the words "masses will revolt." The work was later banned in the USSR and the United Arab Emirates.
Call Number: Easy S4746wh
ISBN: 0060254920
Publication Date: 2012-12-26
This title was banned throughout the Southern United States. Pen America blamed a, “prominent child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim, who wrote in Ladies’ Home Journal ‘What [Sendak] failed to understand is the incredible fear it evokes in the child to be sent to bed without supper, and this by the first and foremost giver of food and security—his mother.'”
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