Banned Books Week at Byrd’s Books, 25% Off

Report by Paula Antolini
September 26, 2017 4:37PM EDT

 

Banned Books Week at Byrd’s Books, Sept. 21st – 27th

Byrd’s Books celebrates Banned Books Week by offering any banned book in the store at 25% off.

Banned Books Week is the national book community’s annual celebration of the freedom to read. Hundreds of libraries and bookstores around the country draw attention to the problem of censorship by mounting displays of challenged books and hosting a variety of events. The 2014 celebration will be held September 21-27.

Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. More than 11,300 books have been challenged since 1982 according to the American Library Association. There were 307 challenges reported to the Office of Intellectual Freedom in 2013, and many more go unreported. The 10 most challenged titles of 2013 were:

• Captain Underpants (series), by Dav Pilkey
  Reasons: Offensive language, unsuited for age group, violence
• The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
  Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, violence
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
  Reasons: Drugs/alcohol/smoking, offensive language, racism, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group
• Fifty Shades of Grey, by E.L. James
  Reasons: Nudity, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group
• The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
  Reasons: Religious viewpoint, unsuited to age group
• A Bad Boy Can Be Good for A Girl, by Tanya Lee Stone
  Reasons: Drugs/alcohol/smoking, nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit
• Looking for Alaska, by John Green
  Reasons: Drugs/alcohol/smoking, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
  Reasons: drugs/alcohol/smoking, homosexuality, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group
• Bless Me Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya
  Reasons: Occult/Satanism, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit
• Bone (series), by Jeff Smith
  Reasons: Political viewpoint, racism, violence

 

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203-730-BYRD (2973)

 

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