Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read

 

 

 

Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment.  Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week 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 2009-2010 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 in 2009-2010:

 

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Alexie Sherman

Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

 House of Night Series by P.C and Kristin Cast

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Deadline by Chris Crutcher

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Dead Man in Indian Creek by Mary Downing Hahn
Geography Club by Brent Hartinger
The Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Vampire Academy Series by Richelle Mead

Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary by Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff
Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
ttyl by Lauren Myracle
And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
Stuck in the Middle: Seventeen Comics from an Unpleasant Age by Ariel Schrag
Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
How to Get Suspended and Influence People by Adam Selzer
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatly Snyder
One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies by Sonya Sones
Only in Your Dreams: A Gossip Girl Novel by Cecily Von Zeigesar
Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poems by WriterCorps