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Banned Books List Revealed

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 04.15.2013 | Books

NEW YORK -- Here's a list "Fifty Shades of Grey" was destined to make: The books most likely to be removed from school and library shelves. On Mond...

Hungry Dogs in the Cellar Nip at Civil Liberties

Donald Friedman | Posted 04.02.2013 | Books
Donald Friedman

Looking for a bedtime sedative one night last week, I found The Switch, a streamable 2010 by-the-numbers comedy. In it, a mentoring character played b...

Who Decides What Kids Can Read In School?

Posted 03.22.2013 | Parents

This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book: Marjane Satrapi’s acclaimed graphic novel, Persepolis, is her mem...

CPS CEO Denies Reports Of District Giving 'Persepolis' The Boot

Posted 03.15.2013 | Chicago

Updated story Is Chicago Public Schools banning the popular graphic novel "Persepolis" from its schools' libraries and classrooms? Reports began...

Judge Rebukes Arizona in Tucson Desegregation Decree: Will Mexican American Studies Return?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 04.10.2013 | Politics
Jeff Biggers

While the long journey for equality in Tucson's schools has taken a leap forward, questions still abound over what the judicial decision means for the indisputably successful Mexican American Studies curriculum.

An Anti-Censorship Handbook for Educators

David Moshman | Posted 04.03.2013 | Home
David Moshman

How to prepare? Don't wait for a challenge. Get a policy in place, including clear and fair procedures and a written form that encourages those who object to a book to consider the work as a whole and requires them to state specific objections and requests.

Aristotle Sex Manual Up For Auction

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 01.04.2013 | World

An 18th-century copy of a sex manual titled "Aristotle's Compleat Master-Piece," once banned for 200 years in the United Kingdom, is set to go on the ...

NCAC Auction Off Edgy Book Covers

Rocco Staino | Posted 01.26.2013 | Books
Rocco Staino

Eight children's book illustrators created mythical book covers that would surely raise eyebrows to benefit the work of the National Coalition Against Censorship.

The Most Banned Book in U.S. History? Hardly

Andrew Shaffer | Posted 01.19.2013 | Books
Andrew Shaffer

What is so controversial about Tim Ferriss' new book to earn the title of "the most banned book in U.S. history"? With The 4-Hour Chef due to hit shelves this week, there's just one problem: There are no shelves for it to hit.

Banned Books Get An Unexpected Ally

Aaron Sankin | Posted 10.25.2012 | San Francisco

Teri Hu, a teacher at Fremont's Washington High School, has submitted a list of books to be taught in her Advanced Placement English class for the pas...

Banned Book Week: 16 Books That Were Challenged For Having LGBT Content

Posted 10.06.2012 | Gay Voices

Today is the last day of Banned Books Week, which was first observed in 1982 "in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in sc...

Banning Books Is Censorship

Jane Friedman | Posted 12.01.2012 | Books
Jane Friedman

Let's celebrate Banned Books Week by reading many of these books that have been unfairly censored.

WATCH: The Bane of Banned Books

Bill Moyers | Posted 12.01.2012 | Books
Bill Moyers

Even in this modern day and age, some folks in communities across America are saying: "No. That Book ISN'T For You" and for reasons that have nothing to do with the community, the school, or the reader -- and everything to do with prejudice.

INFOGRAPHIC: Banned Books Over the Past 30 Years

The Huffington Post | Cavan Sieczkowski and Chris Spurlock | Posted 10.05.2012 | Books

Literary rebels rejoice! Banned Books Week 2012 is finally here, a time for those censored and chastised to proudly parade even the most blush-worthy ...

Banned Books Week: Which Banned Book Do You Want To Read?

Posted 10.04.2012 | Books

When it came time to decide on the next reading material for the HuffPost Book Club, we looked at our calendars. From September 30th until October 6th...

The Banning of Harry Potter

Deji Olukotun | Posted 11.07.2012 | Books
Deji Olukotun

Harry Potter is now the most banned book in America, according to the American Library Association. But these books have taught children to read, to think, to write and to criticize, all hallmarks of free expression.

Summer Reading Assignment Stirs Up Controversy At Tennessee STEM School

Posted 08.15.2012 | Home

The parents of a 14-year-old rising freshman at Hardin Valley Academy in Tennessee have taken issue with their son and his 450 classmates in the STEM ...

Radical Summer Reading: 16 Books Challenged For Gay Content

The Huffington Post | Kevin Burra | Posted 07.13.2012 | Gay Voices

Remember when threw your TV remote across the room, hid your smart phone beneath your couch cushion and vowed that you and your family would read more...

Children's Book Banned By Illinois School District For Gay Parent Reference

Posted 06.01.2012 | Gay Voices

An Illinois school district has reportedly banned the otherwise-well-received "The Family Book" because of a reference to same-sex parents. Think ...

Why Is 'Portnoy's Complaint' Such An Enduring Novel?

Bernard Avishai | Posted 07.31.2012 | Books
Bernard Avishai

Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint was a prodigy's most sensational fiction, not coincidentally about a prodigiously articulate hero.

Fifty Shades Of Grey Banned From Florida Libraries

Posted 05.08.2012 | Books

The erotic novel "Fifty Shades of Grey" may have topped recent bestseller charts, but it's proven a little too hot for librarians in east central Flor...

Why My Books Are The Most Challenged In America

Lauren Myracle | Posted 06.16.2012 | Books
Lauren Myracle

My books first appeared on the Naughty List in 2007, and that time, when I was given the news, I cried. But...surprise! I'm still here, and my books are still being banned, and guess what? Being an author of banned books is cool.

'Hunger Games' Again On List Of Challenged Books

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 04.09.2012 | Home

NEW YORK -- The more popular "The Hunger Games" trilogy becomes, the more reasons some parents and educators have found to question whether it belongs...

'You Have Insulted Me, I Am A Good Citizen'

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 08.08.2012 | Home

Drake High School in North Dakota made headlines in October of 1973 when school board members burned 32 copies of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughter-House Five...

The Librotraficante Behind the Movement to Smuggle "Wetbooks" Back Into Arizona

Paula Beltrán | Posted 04.08.2012 | Latino Voices
Paula Beltrán

Diaz is behind theLibrotraficante movement, arguably the most creative of responses to the Tucson's School District's controversial decision.