[bksvol-discuss] Re: Status of ALA Banned Books at Bookshare
- From: "maithe007" <maithe007@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 05:42:16 -0400
Carrie,
Thank you so very much for taking the time to do this. It helps us know what
we need to work on. You are the best!
Maithe
----- Original Message -----
From: Carrie Karnos
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 2:09 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Status of ALA Banned Books at Bookshare
Oh, no problem. I love making lists, so it was fun for me to do. I'm always
pushing the Bookshare Engineering team for more statistics about all the books
in the collection :-)
Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Wow!! That must have taken quite a bit of time. BIg
thanks are due you, Carrie.
Cindy
--- Carrie Karnos wrote:
>
> e is excellent, g is good, f is fair, x is we
> don't have it yet.
>
> x Alvarez, Julie. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their
> Accents.
> x Ancona, George. Cuban Kids.
> e Angelou, Maya. I Know Why a Caged Bird Sings.
> e Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale.
>
> x Baskin, Julia, Lindsey Newman, Sophia
> Politt-Cohen, and Courtney Toombs. The Notebook
> Girls. Warner Bks. Challenged, but retained at the
> Cape May County, NJ Library (2006). The book is
> comprised of the entries four New York City
> high-school students made in a shared journal in the
> aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
>
> x Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic.
> x Birdseye, Tom. Attack of the Mutant Underwear.
> e Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451.
> x Bradbury, Ray. The Veldt.
> e Brown, Dan. The Da Vinci Code.
> e Burroughs, Augusten. Running With Scissors.
> x Chbosky, Stephen. The Perks of Being a
> Wallflower.
> e Chevalier, Tracey. Girl With a Pearl Earring.
> x Chomsky, Noam, and Edward S. Herman.
> Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the
> Mass Media.
> e Chopin, Kate. The Awakening.
>
> x Christensen, James C., Renwick St. James and
> Alan Dean Foster. Voyage of the Basset. Artisan.
> Retained in the Davis County, Utah Library (2006).
> The complainant objected to the book after her
> five-year-old son borrowed it from the children's
> section and showed her the illustrations it contains
> of topless mermaids and other partially clothes
> mythical creatures. The author is a retired Brigham
> Young University Art professor and cochair of the
> Mormon Arts Foundation.
>
> e Cormier, Robert. The Chocolate Wars.
> x Crutcher, Chris. Whale Talk.
> x de Haan, Linda and Stern Nijland. King & King.
> x Draper, Sharon M., and Adam Lowenbein. Romlette
> and Julio.
> x Eleveld, Mark, ed. The Spoken Word Revolution:
> Slam, Hip Hop & the Poetry of a New Generation.
> x Fogelin, Adrian. My Brother's Hero.
> x Frank, E.R. America.
> e Freedom Writers. The Freedom Writers Diary: How a
> Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change
> Themselves and the World Around Them.
> x Gaines, Ernest J. The Autobiography of Miss Jane
> Pittman.
> x Going, K.L. Fat Kid Rules the World.
> x Gordon, Sharon. Cuba.
> x Gravett, Paul. Manga: 60 Years of Japanese
> Comics.
> x Gray, Heather M., and Samantha Phillips. Real
> Girl/Real World: Tools for Finding Your True Self.
> x Green, Jonathon, comp. Cassell Dictionairy of
> Slang.
>
> x Hedayat, Sadegh. The Blind Owl. Grove Pr. The
> widely acclaimed Iranian classic, written in the
> 1930's, was banned in Iran (2006). "The new
> government intends to take positive steps for
> reviving neglected values and considering religious
> teachings in the cultural field."
>
> x Hedges, Peter. What's Eating Gilbert Grape.
> x Jukes, Mavis. The Gay Book: An Owner's Manual.
> x Kehret, Peg. Abduction!
> x Langley, Andrew. 100 Greatest Tyrants.
> g LeGuin, Ursula K. A Fisherman of the Inland Sea.
> e Levitt, Steven D., and Stephen J Dubner.
> Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden
> Side of Everything.
> e Lowry, Lois. The Giver.
> x Mackler, Carolyn. Vegan Virgin Valentine.
> e Mathabane, Mark. Kaffir Boy.
> e McBain, Ed. Alice in Jeopardy.
>
> x Mitchell, Stephen. Gilgamesh: A New English
> Version. Free Pr. Challenged in the Clearview
> Regional High School in Harrison Township, N.J.
> (2006) because the modern translation of on of the
> oldest known pieces of literature was considered
> sexually descriptive and unnecessarily explicit.
> The work itself dates back to about 1700 B.C., some
> one thousand years before the writings of Homer.
>
> x Mochizuki, Ken. Baseball Saved Us.
> x Morgan, Melissa J. TTYL.
> e Morrison, Toni. Beloved.
> e Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye.
> x Myers, Walter Dean. Fallen Angels.
> x Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Reluctantly Alice.
> g O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried.
> x Opie, Iona Archibald, and Peter Opie, eds. I
> Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book.
>
> g Park, Barbara. Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky
> Peeky Spying. Random. Challenged in the Wake
> County, N.C. schools (2006). Parent are getting
> help from Called2Action, a Christian group that says
> its mission is to "promote and defend our shared
> family and social values."
>
> x Parks, Gordon. The Learning Tree.
> x Paulsen, Gary. Zero to Sixty: The Motorcycle
> Journey of a Lifetime.
> x Peters, Lisa Westberg. Our Family Tree: An
> Evolution Story.
> e Pollan, Michael. The Botany of Desire: A
> Plant's-Eye View of the
> World.
> e Richardson, Justin, and Peter Parnell. And
> Tango Makes Three.
> e Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of
> Secrets.
> e Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of
> Fire.
> e Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood
> Prince.
> e Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
> Azkaban.
> e Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's
> Stone.
> x Ruby, Laura. Lily's Ghost.
> e Sanchez, Alex. Rainbow Boys.
>
> x Schreier, Alta. Vamos a Cuba (A Visit to Cuba).
> Heinemann. Removed from all Miami-Dade County
> school libraries (2006) because a parent's complaint
> that the book does not depict an accurate life in
> Cuba. The American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU] of
> Florida filed a lawsuit challenging the decision to
> remove this book and the twenty-three others titles
> in the same series from the district school
> libraries. In granting a preliminary injunction in
> July 2006 against the removal, Judge Alan S. Gold of
> U.S. District Court in Miami characterized the
> matter as a "First Amendment issue" and ruled in
> favor of the ACLU of Florida, which argued that the
> books were generally factual and that the board
> should add to its collection, rather than removing
> books it disagreed with.
>
> x Schwartz, Alvin. More Scary Stories to Tell in
> the Dark.
> e Sebold, Alice. The Lovely Bones.
> e Sendak, Maurice. In The Night Kitchen.
> x Shafak, Elif. The Bastard of Istanbul.
> x Silverstein, Charles, and Edmund White. The Joy
> of Gay Sex.
> x Steer, Dugald. Wizardology: The Book of the
> Secrets of Merlin.
> e Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men.
> x Thompson, Craig. Blankets.
> e Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clements). The Adventures
> of Huckleberry Finn.
> g Vonnetgut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five.
> e Watkins, Yoko Kawashima. So Far from the Bamboo
> Grove.
> x Wood, Maryrose. Sex Kittens and Horn Dawgs Fall
> in Love.
> g Wright, Richard. Black Boy.
>
>
>
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