Banned Books Week: Celebrate Your Freedom to Read
September 30−October 6, 2012
Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. This year is the 30th Anniversary of Banned Books Week which highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States.
Visit the American Library Associations Banned Books Week Page for more information. For a complete list of the books banned or challenged in 2011-2012 and to see the reasons behind the challenges download a copy of the list here.
Below is a list of Youth and Young Adult books that were banned and/or challenged in 2011-2012:
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Speak by Laure Halse Anderson
What's the Big Secret?: Talking About Sex With Girls and Boys by Laurie Krasney Brown and Marc Brown
My Mom's Having a Baby by Dori Hillestad Butler
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Betrayed by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Looking for Alaska by John Green
It's Perfectly Normal by Robie H. Harris
Stolen Children by Peg Kehret
Hold Still by Nina LaCour
Tangled by Carolyn Mackler
Lovingly Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby by Dav Pilkey
And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
Stuck in the Middle: 17 Comics from an Unpleasant Age by Ariel Schrag
Only in Your Dreams by Cecily Von Ziegesar