Banned Books Week is the national book community’s annual celebration of the freedom to read and battle censorship. The National Council of Teachers of English provides resources for teachers facing challenges to works used in their classrooms. They’ve also compiled a list of titles that have been challenged between 2004 and 2011. We’ve highlighted just a few of those that are popular classroom reads:
Mark Twain
Sherman Alexie
Anne Frank
Toni Morrison
Aldous Huxley
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Shakespeare
Lois Lowry
Tim O’Brien
Chinua Achebe
Sandra Cisneros
Ray Bradbury
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