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Explore Banned Books Week

September 29-October 6, 2007

2007

Explore Banned Books Week by checking out the following Web sites and activities.  For more ways to get involved, visit Action Guide, Suggested Activities, Banned Books Week Read-Out!, Aye, mateys . . . celebrate your freedom t' read!, and How to Celebrate Banned Books Week 2007.  Don' forget to Support OIF by purchasing your Banned Books Week materials here!

Ask your local, state, and national press contacts to go to 2007 BBW Press Kit for information!

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2006

Download a free chapter of three frequently challenged books from Audible.com. The first chapters from the audiobooks "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain, "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier and "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" are available.

Check out the most challenged books so far this century (and the briefer version, Most Challenged Books of 21st Century, 2000-2005.). The ALA reports there were more than 3,000 attempts to remove books from schools and public libraries between 2000 and 2005.

Search modern classics online with Google Book Search: Explore Banned Books with Google. Readers can explore 42 of the banned or challenged books that appear on the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century.

Listen to a podcast interview with ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom Director Judith Krug. Curriculum Review editor Frank Sennett and Krug discuss our freedom to read, book challenges in schools, and the first-ever Banned Books Week observance.