by mylinhshattan | Oct 8, 2015 | Bookshelf, On Literature
What modern classic makes #4 on the banned book list? It’s on 8th grade reading lists around the country. The author’s ‘new’ novel was released this summer and stirred up a controversy, maybe because Harper Collins made historic sales of more than 1.1 million copies...
by mylinhshattan | Sep 25, 2014 | On Education, On Literature
People made over 18,000 attempts to remove books from schools and libraries since 1990, according to the American Library Association (ALA article link).  Here are the Top Ten Most Frequently Challenged Books (scroll to bottom). My family read six of them, so we have...