The reason this title appears on the list:
Removed from all school libraries (1978) in Gardner KS due to a sexually
explicit section; challenged at the Ogden School District (1979), Ogden, UT, and placed in a restricted circulation category; removed from all elementary and middle school libraries (1980) in Clinton NC due to "objectionable" language, challenged in the Gwinnett County public schools (1986) because of "obscene language."
Banned Books Week Challenge (Tuesday)
Monday's answers: To Kill a Mockingbird and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The first fifteen respondents to get the correct answer will win a prize; you must stop by the reference desk in the library to collect. Be the first person to answer the daily bonus question and win an even bigger prize!! Run, don't walk, to the library...
Quiz question #2
This world famous, widely read Holocaust memoir has been banned for complaints ranging from "pornographic sexual content" and "homosexual themes", to it simply being a "real downer". What is this book?
Bonus question #2
What late 19th century play, set in a coastal Norwegian town, is Peter Benchley's novel Jaws partially based on?
*Present your answers to the librarian at the reference desk to collect your cool prize!!
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