Reason this was banned:
Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff
Merriam-Webster Collegiate
Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
Pulled from the Menifee, Calif. Union School District
(2010) because a parent complained when a child
came across the term “oral sex.” Offi cials said
the district is forming a committee to consider
a permanent classroom ban of the dictionary.
Source: Mar. 2010, p. 55.
Banned Books Week Challenge (Wednesday)
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...
Tuesday's answers: Diary of Anne Frank and Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People
Quiz question #3
What is the part of the Bill of Rights that guarantees the freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition?Bonus question #3
What rock star's biography was removed from all Farmington, MN elementary and middle school libraries in 2009 because it was "...very dark and violent and made references to the use of Ritalin as being a precursor to the use of illicit drugs. It also covered topics such as mental illness and suicide."
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