Banned Books in Schools

I love reading, and I'm all for celebrating the freedom to read, but I've never purposely set out to read a banned book during Banned Books Week. However, as I read through lists of banned books while researching BBW, I realized it was entirely possible I’d unwittingly read a banned book during BBW, because Simon Kenton uses a fair number of them. In fact, it seems most of the ones SK uses have been challenged:

- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

There are even more if you count excerpts (ex. Grendel, The Canterbury Tales, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.) Most of these books can be found on the SK library’s shelves, so if you want to get ahead on your school work and celebrate BBW at once, come check one out.