Hello! Here is an article that recently ran in my high school paper about banned books by me! Enjoy! In 1982, Banned Books Week was launched in response to a surge in challenged books in school districts, libraries, and bookstores. Another wave of book banning is taking place now - 40 years later. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: these are just a few of the numerous titles that are banned and challenged classics, according to the American Library Association (ALA). Although HH's curriculum continues to include these books, in a lot of high schools around the country, books like these and other classics are being contested, as they have been many times in America’s history. In 1982, District V. Pico, a Supreme Court case that ruled school officials cannot ban books in libraries for their content, sparked what we know today as the Banned Books Movement. That same year, the American Booksellers Asso...
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