What do the classics The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Catcher in the Rye, and To Kill a Mockingbird have in common? They’ll be celebrated as part of the American Library Association’s (ALA) Banned Books Week (BBW) celebrations from September 29 to October 6.
A challenge is a person expressing a point of view and is also an attempt to remove or restrict materials from the curriculum or library, based upon the objections of a person or group, thereby restricting the access of others. A banning is the removal of those materials. The top three reasons usually cited for challenging (and banning) material are that it’s considered to be “sexually explicit,” contain “offensive language,” and be “unsuited to age group.”
While books usually are challenged with the best …