{"id":2787,"date":"2012-09-25T20:03:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T00:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/?p=2787"},"modified":"2021-08-14T15:27:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T19:27:58","slug":"banned-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/banned-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Harriet the Spy<\/em>? <em>James and the Giant Peach<\/em>? J.K. Rowling and Judy Blume? See below for banned books, burned books, forbidden books, a spirited defense of Huckleberry Finn, and a video contest.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 ez-toc-wrap-left counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e9d54ab59d8\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e9d54ab59d8\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/banned-books\/#Just_What_Is_It_We_Cant_Read_And_Why_Not\" >Just What Is It We Can\u2019t Read? And Why Not?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/banned-books\/2\/#Stories_About_Censorship\" >Stories About Censorship<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/banned-books\/3\/#Up_in_Smoke_Burning_Books\" >Up in Smoke: Burning Books<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Just_What_Is_It_We_Cant_Read_And_Why_Not\"><\/span><strong>Just What Is It We Can\u2019t Read? And Why Not?<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15817\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/I-Read-Banned-Books-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/I-Read-Banned-Books-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/I-Read-Banned-Books-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/I-Read-Banned-Books-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/I-Read-Banned-Books-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/I-Read-Banned-Books-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/I-Read-Banned-Books-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/advocacy\/bbooks\">American Library Association\u2019s Banned Books<\/a> has general information about banned and challenged books and year-by-year lists of challenged books.<\/p>\n<p>Among the forbidden: Louise Fitzhugh\u2019s <em>Harriet the Spy<\/em> (anti-authority), William Stieg\u2019s <em>Sylvester and the Magic Pebble<\/em> (police portrayed as pigs), and Shel Silverstein\u2019s <em>A Light in the Attic<\/em> (one of the poems advocates breaking dishes).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20712\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/700-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/700-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/700.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>From BuzzFeed, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/donnad\/banned-books-you-read-as-a-child\">17 Banned Books You Read As a Child<\/a> is\u00a0an illustrated list that begins with the Harry Potter books (witchcraft) and proceeds through <em>Bridge to Terabithia<\/em> (profanity, disrespect of adults), <em>Are You There, God? It\u2019s Me, Margaret <\/em>(religious doubt), <em>James and the Giant Peach<\/em> (Communist and racist overtones), and <em>The Giver<\/em> (belittles motherhood and family).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20713\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/9780064434362_p0_v1_s1200x630-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/9780064434362_p0_v1_s1200x630-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/9780064434362_p0_v1_s1200x630.jpg 304w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/culture\/archive\/2012\/04\/banned-books-we-have-loved\/329396\/\">The Banned Books We Have Loved<\/a>\u00a0is a thoughtful essay on YA book banning, with a list of the most frequently banned books from the past twenty years. (Included: <em>Catcher in the Rye<\/em>, <em>In the Night Kitchen<\/em>, and <em>The Chocolate War<\/em>.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20714\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/81Saez2gO5L-1-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/81Saez2gO5L-1-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/81Saez2gO5L-1-1024x763.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/81Saez2gO5L-1-768x573.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/81Saez2gO5L-1-1536x1145.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/81Saez2gO5L-1.jpg 1878w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Alan Levinowitz\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2012\/03\/ban-this-book-an-uncensored-look-at-the-lorax-and-other-dangerous-books.html\">Ban This Book<\/a>\u00a0is an \u201cuncensored\u201d reflection on censorship in children\u2019s books, both overt and covert, that provides a lot of fuel for discussion. Targeted at older teenagers and adults \u2013 topics include sexual abuse and homophobia.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20715\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/9780679406419_p0_v2_s1200x630-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/9780679406419_p0_v2_s1200x630-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/9780679406419_p0_v2_s1200x630.jpg 458w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/cbldf.org\/banned-comic\/banned-challenged-comics\/\">Banned &amp; Challenged Comic Books<\/a> is a collection of case studies on banned and challenged graphic novels, among them Alan Moore&#8217;s <em>Watchmen<\/em>, Art Spiegelman&#8217;s <em>Maus<\/em>, and Alison Bechdel&#8217;s <em>Fun Home<\/em>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americamagazine.org\/issue\/517\/article\/secrets-behind-forbidden-books\">Secrets Behind the Forbidden Books<\/a> for an overview of the Vatican\u2019s Index of Forbidden Books. (Among the condemned: Descartes, Hobbes, Voltaire, and Jean-Paul Sartre.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20716\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/exhibit_11_library-exhibits_poster_image_censlogoxx-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/exhibit_11_library-exhibits_poster_image_censlogoxx-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/exhibit_11_library-exhibits_poster_image_censlogoxx.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/explore.lib.virginia.edu\/exhibits\/show\/censored\">Censored: Wielding the Red Pen<\/a>\u00a0is a great online exhibit on the history and practice of censorship from the University of Virginia Library. Various sections cover Margaret Sanger and birth control; Thomas Bowdler, who took it upon himself to expurgate Shakespeare; wartime censorship; science and censorship; web filtering and the Internet; Hollywood and censorship; and more.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15807\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/places-I-never-meant-to-be-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/places-I-never-meant-to-be-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/places-I-never-meant-to-be-662x1024.jpg 662w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/places-I-never-meant-to-be-768x1188.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/places-I-never-meant-to-be-993x1536.jpg 993w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/places-I-never-meant-to-be-1324x2048.jpg 1324w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/places-I-never-meant-to-be.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Edited and introduced by Judy Blume, whose works appear on many banned books lists, <em>Places I Never Meant to Be<\/em> (Simon Pulse, 2001) is a collection of twelve short stories by well-known writers who have been censored, among them Katherine Paterson, Julius Lester, Paul Zindel, and Walter Dean Myers. Each story is followed by the author\u2019s reflections on censorship. For ages 12 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/judyblume.com\/censorship.php \">Judy Blume Talks About Censorship<\/a>\u00a0has informational articles (including Blume\u2019s \u201cIs Harry Potter Evil?\u201d from the <em>New York Times<\/em>) and a resource guide for people combatting book bans in their communities.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15787\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/120-banned-bks-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/120-banned-bks-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/120-banned-bks-681x1024.jpg 681w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/120-banned-bks-768x1155.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/120-banned-bks-1022x1536.jpg 1022w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/120-banned-bks-1362x2048.jpg 1362w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/120-banned-bks.jpg 1663w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By Nicholas J. Karolides, Margaret Bald, and Dawn B. Sova, <em>120 Banned Books<\/em> (Checkmark Books, 2011) is a fascinating (and appalling) history of the censorship of world literature. Discussed works are variously categorized as books banned on political grounds (<em>All Quiet on the Western Front<\/em>, <em>I Am the Cheese<\/em>, <em>Animal Farm<\/em>), religious grounds (<em>Oliver Twist<\/em>, <em>The Satanic Verses<\/em>, <em>On the Origin of Species<\/em>), sexual grounds (<em>Madame Bovary<\/em>, <em>Ulysses<\/em>, Judy Blume\u2019s <em>Forever<\/em>), and social grounds (<em>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/em>, <em>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em>, Anne Frank\u2019s <em>Diary of a Young Girl<\/em>). For teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15805\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/not-in-front-of-the-children-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/not-in-front-of-the-children-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/not-in-front-of-the-children-673x1024.jpg 673w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/not-in-front-of-the-children-768x1169.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/not-in-front-of-the-children-1009x1536.jpg 1009w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/not-in-front-of-the-children-1345x2048.jpg 1345w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/not-in-front-of-the-children.jpg 1642w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Marjorie Heins\u2019s <em>Not in Front of the Children<\/em> (Rutgers University Press, 2007), subtitled \u201cIndecency, Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth,\u201d is a 400+-page history of attempts to protect children from \u201cevil influences\u201d (this dates back at least to the ancient Greeks; Plato worried about the corrupting effect of tragic poetry) and the modern rise of censorship. A scholarly approach to a complex problem. For older teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncac.org\">The National Coalition Against Censorship<\/a> is devoted to expanding public awareness of censorship and promoting free expression. The site includes resources for kids and info on the Kids\u2019 Right to Read Project (KRRP).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beaconforfreedom.org\/liste.html?tid=415&amp;art_id=475\">Beacon for Freedom of Expression<\/a>\u00a0has a history of censorship from Socrates to the present day.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Stories About Censorship<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; height: 7414px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 318px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 318px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15790\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/arthur-and-scare-pants-off-bk-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/arthur-and-scare-pants-off-bk-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/arthur-and-scare-pants-off-bk-713x1024.jpg 713w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/arthur-and-scare-pants-off-bk-768x1103.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/arthur-and-scare-pants-off-bk-1069x1536.jpg 1069w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/arthur-and-scare-pants-off-bk-1425x2048.jpg 1425w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/arthur-and-scare-pants-off-bk.jpg 1740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 318px;\">In Marc Brown\u2019s <em>Arthur and the Scare-Your-Pants-Off Club<\/em> (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1998), Arthur, everybody\u2019s favorite aardvark, and pals have been eagerly waiting for the new Scare-Your-Pants-Off Club book to arrive at the library \u2013 only to find that the series has been banned by a concerned parents\u2019 group as too frightening for young readers. Arthur and friends then embark on a campaign to get their books back. A short chapter book for ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 318px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 318px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15799\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/landry-news-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/landry-news-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/landry-news-687x1024.jpg 687w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/landry-news-768x1144.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/landry-news-1031x1536.jpg 1031w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/landry-news-1375x2048.jpg 1375w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/landry-news.jpg 1678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 318px;\">In Andrew Clements\u2019s <em>The Landry News<\/em> (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2000), fifth-grader Cara Landry begins to publish a newspaper, featuring \u2013 in the first edition \u2013 a critical editorial about her apathetic teacher Mr. Larson, who is so impressed by it that he stops ignoring the class and returns to his past creative teaching methods. When Cara publishes a poignant story about divorce written by a classmate, however, the school principal \u2013 long looking for a reason to fire Mr. Larson \u2013 is infuriated and declares the story inappropriate for young readers, setting off a conflict over freedom of the press and First Amendment rights. For ages 8-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 58px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 58px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 58px;\">For templates and resources for creating your own Landry-type newspaper, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/suzyred.com\/2001landrynews.html\">Kids\u2019 Wings: The Landry News<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 318px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 318px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15808\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/printers-apprentice-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/printers-apprentice-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/printers-apprentice-770x1024.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/printers-apprentice-768x1022.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/printers-apprentice-1154x1536.jpg 1154w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/printers-apprentice-1539x2048.jpg 1539w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/printers-apprentice.jpg 1879w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 318px;\">Stephen Krensky\u2019s <em>The Printer\u2019s Apprentice<\/em> (Delacorte, 1995) is the story of the early 18<sup>th<\/sup>-century John Peter Zenger trial, a crucial event in the history of freedom of the press, as experienced by Gus and Zach, two young apprentices. It\u2019s out of print, but is available from used-book dealers and public libraries. For ages 8-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 318px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 318px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15793\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Ban-This-Book-Alan-Gratz-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Ban-This-Book-Alan-Gratz-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Ban-This-Book-Alan-Gratz-678x1024.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Ban-This-Book-Alan-Gratz-768x1160.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Ban-This-Book-Alan-Gratz-1017x1536.jpg 1017w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Ban-This-Book-Alan-Gratz-1356x2048.jpg 1356w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Ban-This-Book-Alan-Gratz.jpg 1655w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 318px;\">In Alan Gratz\u2019s <em>Ban This Book<\/em> (Starscape, 2018), fourth-grader Amy Anne is appalled when a parent has <em>From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler<\/em> removed from the school library \u2013 and in retaliation starts a banned-books library in her locker. For ages 8-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 318px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 318px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15802\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/maudie-and-me-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/maudie-and-me-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/maudie-and-me-690x1024.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/maudie-and-me-768x1140.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/maudie-and-me-1035x1536.jpg 1035w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/maudie-and-me-1380x2048.jpg 1380w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/maudie-and-me.jpg 1684w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 318px;\">In Betty Miles\u2019s <em>Maudie and Me and the Dirty Book<\/em> (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1989), sixth-graders Kate and Maudie have volunteered for a school program that involves reading books to first graders. The \u201cdirty book\u201d that the girls read describes a puppy being born \u2013 which brings on a host of sex-related questions and comments from the kids. Some members of the community react with outrage; and Kate and Maudie find themselves in the middle of a censorship battle. Out of print, but available from used-book dealers and public libraries. For ages 9-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 318px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 318px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15806\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/octavia-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/octavia-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/octavia-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/octavia-768x1153.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/octavia-1023x1536.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/octavia-1364x2048.jpg 1364w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/octavia.jpg 1665w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 318px;\">In Rebecca Rupp\u2019s <em>Octavia Boone\u2019s Big Questions About Life, the Universe, and Everything<\/em> (Candlewick, 2010), Octavia\u2019s life is disrupted when her mother, Ray, joins the fundamentalist Redeemers and her artist father insists he needs time alone to find himself. Octavia \u2013 unhappy with the Redeemers who reject science, forbid fantasy books, and insist on traditional gender roles \u2013 struggles for independence and freedom of belief, while eventually coming to understand her mother\u2019s needs and motivations. \u201cFunny, caustic, thought-provoking, and a bit of a damp hankie\u2026\u201d writes one reviewer. For ages 9-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 318px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 318px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15789\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/americus-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/americus-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/americus-743x1024.jpg 743w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/americus-768x1059.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/americus-1114x1536.jpg 1114w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/americus-1485x2048.jpg 1485w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/americus.jpg 1813w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 318px;\">In M. K. Reed and Jonathan David Hill\u2019s great graphic novel <em>Americus<\/em> (First Second, 2011), Christian activists are attempting to ban eighth-grader Neil\u2019s favorite fantasy series, <em>The Chronicles of Apathea Ravenchilde<\/em>, from the library on grounds of immorality and heresy. Neil, with the help of Charlotte, the feisty youth librarian, sets out to save his beloved books. For ages 10 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 22px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 22px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 22px;\">See a sample chapter of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realdesignmedia.com\/mac\/excerpts\/americus\/americus.html\">Americus<\/a>.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 318px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 318px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15814\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/francine-green-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/francine-green-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/francine-green-713x1024.jpg 713w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/francine-green-768x1103.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/francine-green-1069x1536.jpg 1069w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/francine-green-1425x2048.jpg 1425w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/francine-green.jpg 1740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 318px;\">In Karen Cushman\u2019s <em>The Loud Silence of Francine Green<\/em> (Clarion Books, 2006), Francine is an eighth-grade student at the restrictive Los Angeles All Saints School for Girls during the tense days of the McCarthy era. When fiery Sophie arrives at the school and begins protesting the lack of free speech, Francine begins rethinking her own views. Themes include friendship, growing up, and intellectual freedom. For ages 10-14.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 58px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 58px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 58px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com\/readers_guides\/cushman\/francine.shtml\">The Loud Silence of Francine Green Discussion Guide<\/a> has\u00a0discussion questions and student writing and research projects.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 364px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 364px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15788\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2041-181x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2041-181x300.jpg 181w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2041-616x1024.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2041-768x1276.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2041-925x1536.jpg 925w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2041-1233x2048.jpg 1233w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2041.jpg 1505w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 181px) 100vw, 181px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 364px;\"><em>2041: Twelve Short Stories About the Future by Top Science Fiction Writers<\/em> (Laurel Leaf, 1994) includes Connie Willis\u2019s \u201cMuch Ado About [Censored],\u201d an hilarious tale of Shakespearean censorship in a future age of extreme political correctness. Portia wants her high-school English class to read Shakespeare, but protests are legion: the Angry Women\u2019s Alliance argues that <em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em> promotes suicide and drug abuse; the Wildlife Club claims that <em>As You Like It<\/em> furthers destructive attitudes toward the environment (Orlando carves Rosalind\u2019s name on a tree); the National Cutlery Council objects to the portrayal of swords as deadly weapons; and the Drapery Defense League objects to <em>Hamlet<\/em>, because Polonius was stabbed while behind a curtain, thus implying that curtains are dangerous. For ages 11 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 76px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 76px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 76px;\">Willis\u2019s story is also available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ijmc.com\/archives\/1995\/August\/14August1995.html\">online<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 318px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 318px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15798\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/day-came-to-arrest-bk-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/day-came-to-arrest-bk-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/day-came-to-arrest-bk-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/day-came-to-arrest-bk-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/day-came-to-arrest-bk-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/day-came-to-arrest-bk.jpg 1875w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 318px;\">In Nat Hentoff\u2019s <em>The Day They Came to Arrest the Book<\/em> (Laurel Leaf, 1983), Barney Roth, editor of the George Mason High School newspaper, comes up against a group of students and parents determined to ban <em>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/em>. A discussion promoter and a good pick for book clubs. For ages 12 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 318px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 318px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15803\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/memoirs-of-bookbat-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/memoirs-of-bookbat-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/memoirs-of-bookbat-642x1024.jpg 642w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/memoirs-of-bookbat-768x1224.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/memoirs-of-bookbat-963x1536.jpg 963w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/memoirs-of-bookbat-1285x2048.jpg 1285w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/memoirs-of-bookbat.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 318px;\">In Kathryn Lasky\u2019s <em>Memoirs of a Bookbat<\/em> (Harcourt, 1996), 14-year-old Harper Jessup is a passionate reader. Then her parents convert to Christian fundamentalism and Harper, willy-nilly, becomes a \u201cmigrant for God\u201d as the family travels the country in a motor home advocating book censorship and protesting blasphemy, abortion, and the theory of evolution. Harper is forced to hide her beloved books (satanic); and struggles to cope with how different her parents\u2019 beliefs now are from her own. Eventually, with the help of a friend, she manages to escape, and at the end of the book she\u2019s living with her supportive grandmother. For ages 12 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 318px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 318px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/sledding-hill-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/sledding-hill-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/sledding-hill-742x1024.jpg 742w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/sledding-hill-768x1060.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/sledding-hill-1113x1536.jpg 1113w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/sledding-hill-1484x2048.jpg 1484w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/sledding-hill.jpg 1812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 318px;\">In Chris Crutcher\u2019s <em>The Sledding Hill<\/em> (Harper Tempest, 2006), main character Eddie Proffit has just lost both his father and his best friend, Billy \u2013 though Billy, dead, is the narrator of the book. Eddie, traumatized by his dual loss, has stopped talking. His mother is pressuring him to join a local evangelical church, presided over by the Reverend Tarter, who also teaches English at the high school. When Eddie\u2019s class starts reading the suspect novel <em>Warren Peece<\/em> by an obscure author named (heh) Chris Crutcher, Tarter \u2013 citing bad language and homosexuality \u2013 goes on a campaign to have the book removed from the school curriculum. For ages 12 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 318px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 318px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/last-safe-place-on-earth-183x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/last-safe-place-on-earth-183x300.jpg 183w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/last-safe-place-on-earth-624x1024.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/last-safe-place-on-earth-768x1261.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/last-safe-place-on-earth-936x1536.jpg 936w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/last-safe-place-on-earth-1248x2048.jpg 1248w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/last-safe-place-on-earth.jpg 1523w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 318px;\">In Richard Peck\u2019s <em>The Last Safe Place on Earth<\/em> (Delacorte, 1995), 15-year-old Todd, his seven-year-old sister Marnie, cousin Diana, and parents have moved to the idyllic community of Walden Woods. Walden Woods, however, proves to have a dark side: Christian fundamentalists are attempting to ban Anne Frank\u2019s <em>Diary<\/em> from the schools because it implies that all religious views are equally valid; and babysitter Laurel has been brainwashing Marnie, convincing her that Halloween is evil and anyone who celebrates it is going to hell. For ages 12 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 318px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 318px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15804\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/nightjohn-170x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/nightjohn-170x300.jpg 170w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/nightjohn-581x1024.jpg 581w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/nightjohn-768x1353.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/nightjohn-872x1536.jpg 872w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/nightjohn-1162x2048.jpg 1162w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/nightjohn.jpg 1419w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 318px;\">The protagonist of Gary Paulsen\u2019s <em>Nightjohn<\/em> (Laurel Leaf, 1995) is twelve-year-old Sarny, a slave on a southern plantation in the 1850s. Slave are forbidden to learn to read, but even so Sarny does, under the tutelage of the indomitable Nightjohn, who had escaped north to freedom, but returned to teach reading in secret. A brutal, painful, and wonderful book. For ages 12 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 318px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 318px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15811\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/year-they-burned-the-books-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/year-they-burned-the-books-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/year-they-burned-the-books-685x1024.jpg 685w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/year-they-burned-the-books-768x1148.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/year-they-burned-the-books-1028x1536.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/year-they-burned-the-books-1371x2048.jpg 1371w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/year-they-burned-the-books.jpg 1673w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 318px;\">In Nancy Garden\u2019s <em>The Year They Burned the Books<\/em> (Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux, 1999), main character Jamie Crawford, editor of the high-school newspaper, runs up against a fundamentalist school board member who, on moral grounds, is censoring articles in Jamie\u2019s paper, removing sex education books from the school shelves, and even staging a book burning. The story is complicated by Jamie\u2019s struggle to come to terms with her own homosexuality. For ages 12 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 318px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 318px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15797\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/chosen-one-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/chosen-one-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/chosen-one-714x1024.jpg 714w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/chosen-one-768x1101.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/chosen-one-1072x1536.jpg 1072w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/chosen-one-1429x2048.jpg 1429w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/chosen-one.jpg 1744w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 318px;\">In Carol Lynch Williams\u2019s <em>The Chosen One<\/em> (St. Martin\u2019s Griffin, 2010), 13-year-old Kyra lives in a walled compound with her family \u2013 her father, his three wives, and Kyra\u2019s twenty siblings \u2013 and belongs to an ultra-religious polygamous sect, ruled over by the Prophet Childs and his God Squad. When the Prophet announces that Kyra is to become the seventh wife of her sixty-year-old Uncle Hyrum, Kyra \u2013 who has been reading forbidden books from the mobile library and secretly seeing a young sect member, Joshua \u2013 rebels. Tense and complex. For ages 13 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 318px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 318px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15792\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/balzac-and-chinese-seamstress-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/balzac-and-chinese-seamstress-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/balzac-and-chinese-seamstress-663x1024.jpg 663w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/balzac-and-chinese-seamstress-768x1186.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/balzac-and-chinese-seamstress-995x1536.jpg 995w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/balzac-and-chinese-seamstress-1326x2048.jpg 1326w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/balzac-and-chinese-seamstress.jpg 1619w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 318px;\">In Dai Sijie\u2019s <em>Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress<\/em> (Anchor Books, 2002), set during the Chinese Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 70s, two young boys, respectively the sons of a doctor and a dentist, are sent to a mountain village for \u201cre-education\u201d through labor. There they fall for the village tailor\u2019s beautiful daughter and find solace in a stash of forbidden Western books. As in Markus Zusak\u2019s <em>The Book Thief<\/em> (see Up in Smoke, below), a prominent theme is the power of literature to comfort people in adversity. For teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 318px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 318px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15809\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/reading-lolita-tehran-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/reading-lolita-tehran-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/reading-lolita-tehran-664x1024.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/reading-lolita-tehran-768x1184.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/reading-lolita-tehran-997x1536.jpg 997w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/reading-lolita-tehran-1329x2048.jpg 1329w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/reading-lolita-tehran.jpg 1622w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 318px;\">Azar Nafisi\u2019s <em>Reading Lolita in Tehran<\/em> (Random House, 2008) is the compelling story of how Nafisi, a literature professor in repressive Iran, gathered a group of students at her home to read forbidden Western books by such authors as Vladimir Nabokov, Henry James, Jane Austen, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. For teens and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 328px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 328px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15816\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/handmaids-tale-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/handmaids-tale-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/handmaids-tale-664x1024.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/handmaids-tale-768x1184.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/handmaids-tale-996x1536.jpg 996w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/handmaids-tale-1328x2048.jpg 1328w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/handmaids-tale.jpg 1621w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 328px;\">Margaret Atwood\u2019s <em>The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em> (Anchor Books, 1998) \u2013 itself an often-banned book \u2013 is a darkly fascinating story of a fanatical future society in which women are wholly repressed by the state. The main character is Offred, a handmaid assigned to the household of the Commander, a high official in the Republic of Gilead (the former United States), whose duty \u2013 as one of Gilead\u2019s rare fertile women \u2013 is to bear children. Gilead is chilling: books are forbidden; women are not allowed to read, hold jobs, own property, or have money; and the handmaids, who wear wimple-like headdresses and long red robes, are not even allowed to make eye contact with other people. For older teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 318px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 318px;\"><strong><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15815\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/handmaids-tale-series-158x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/handmaids-tale-series-158x300.jpg 158w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/handmaids-tale-series-538x1024.jpg 538w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/handmaids-tale-series-768x1462.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/handmaids-tale-series-807x1536.jpg 807w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/handmaids-tale-series-1076x2048.jpg 1076w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/handmaids-tale-series.jpg 1313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 158px) 100vw, 158px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<p><strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 318px;\">A movie version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0099731\/\">The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale<\/a> (1990), starring Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, and Robert Duvall, is rated R; also see the excellent multi-episode <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt5834204\/\">TV series<\/a> (2017). For mature teens and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 256px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 256px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15801\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/male-animal-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/male-animal-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/male-animal-1024x793.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/male-animal-768x594.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/male-animal-1536x1189.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/male-animal-2048x1585.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 256px;\">In the film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0035020\/\"><em>The Male Animal<\/em> <\/a>(Warner Brothers, 1942), based on the play of the same name by James Thurber and Elliot Nugent, Tommy Turner, a college English professor, has come under fire for preparing to read a letter to his class by Bartolomeo Vanzetti, of the politically explosive Sacco and Vanzetti case. The free speech issue is paired with a subplot in which football hero Joe Ferguson, ex-boyfriend of Turner\u2019s wife Ellen, has returned to campus and is renewing his interest in Ellen. With Henry Fonda and Olivia DeHavilland.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 76px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 76px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 76px;\">For information on the Sacco-Vanzetti case, including background information, a chronology, trial transcripts, and images, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.famous-trials.com\/saccovanzetti\/766-home\">The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 318px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 318px;\"><strong> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15824\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/gift-upon-shore-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/gift-upon-shore-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/gift-upon-shore.jpg 367w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 318px;\">In M.K. Wren&#8217;s <em>A Gift Upon the Shore<\/em> (Ballantine, 1990), set in a not-far-distant future, young Mary Hope is taken in by Rachel, a painter, following the collapse of civilization. The two survive on their Oregon farm, struggling to preserve the world&#8217;s remaining books &#8211; a legacy put at risk when they come in contact with the Arkites, a fundamentalist society that rejects everything but the teachings of the Bible. For older teens and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Up in Smoke: Burning Books<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15795\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/book-thief-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/book-thief-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/book-thief-664x1024.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/book-thief-768x1184.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/book-thief-996x1536.jpg 996w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/book-thief-1328x2048.jpg 1328w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/book-thief.jpg 1621w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Markus Zusak\u2019s brilliantly creative <em>The Book Thief<\/em> (Alfred A. Knopf, 2007) is set in Germany in World War II and narrated by Death. Here Death tells the story of the book thief, Liesel Meminger, living with foster parents Hans and Rosa Hubermann near Munich, who steals books from the Nazi book burnings and reads them to neighbors during the bombing raids and to Max, the Jewish man the Hubermanns are hiding in their cellar. A must-read for ages 12 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15813\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/fahrenheit-451-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/fahrenheit-451-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/fahrenheit-451-667x1024.jpg 667w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/fahrenheit-451-768x1179.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/fahrenheit-451-1000x1536.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/fahrenheit-451-1334x2048.jpg 1334w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/fahrenheit-451.jpg 1628w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Ray Bradbury\u2019s <em>Fahrenheit 451<\/em> (Simon &amp; Schuster, 2012), originally published in 1953, Montag, the main character, is a fireman \u2013 that is, a bookburner \u2013 and the temperature of the title is that at which paper goes up in flames. Montag\u2019s wife Mildred, like the rest of society, devotes herself to soap operas on wall-sized TV screens; and books are forbidden, being deemed disturbing, disruptive, and dangerous. Then Montag meets a neighbor, Clarisse, whose unconventional ideas cause him gradually to change his beliefs. Soon he has become a clandestine reader; and by the end of the book he has fled the city and joined an underground band of rebels, devoted to preserving literature. A classic for ages 12 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15812\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/fahrenheit-451-movie-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/fahrenheit-451-movie-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/fahrenheit-451-movie-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/fahrenheit-451-movie-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/fahrenheit-451-movie-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/fahrenheit-451-movie-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/fahrenheit-451-movie.jpg 1667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Also see the excellent 1966 film version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0060390\/\">Fahrenheit 451<\/a>, directed by Francois Truffaut, starring Julie Christie and Oskar Werner.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>See this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/teachers_guides\/9780345410016.pdf\">Fahrenheit 451 Teacher&#8217;s Guide <\/a>with plot summary, discussion questions, and activities.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.neabigread.org\/books\/fahrenheit451\/teachersguide02.php\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15796\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/burning-books-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/burning-books-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/burning-books-676x1024.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/burning-books-768x1164.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/burning-books-1014x1536.jpg 1014w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/burning-books-1352x2048.jpg 1352w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/burning-books.jpg 1650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Matthew Fishburn\u2019s <em>Burning Books<\/em> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) is a history of book-burning, with particular emphasis on the iconic Nazi book-burning of 1933.\u00a0 For older teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>Fishburn also maintains a blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/burningbookspalgrave.blogspot.com\/\">Burning Books<\/a>, tracking book-burning incidents (and other forms of book abuse).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>From <em>The Guardian<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2010\/sep\/10\/book-burning-quran-history-nazis\">Book burning: fanning the flames of hatred<\/a> \u00a0is a brief essay on the history of book-burning.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>\u201cReasonable people\u2026do not burn books.\u201d From the <em>New Yorker<\/em>, see the essay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/books\/2011\/06\/book-of-negroes-book-burning.html\">Heated Debates, Burning Books<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harriet the Spy? 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