Velshi Banned Book Club: Jodi Picoult urges readers to be louder than book banners
According to PEN America, there were 10,046 instances of book bans or challenges last school year. Jodi Picoult’s “Nineteen ...
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Local librarian discusses impact of book censorship
A step in the wrong direction, book censorship restricts our ideas and the information that is available to us. It takes away ...
Author ‘Lemony Snicket’ hosts banned book giveaway at Bryan church
The Unitarian Universalist Church of the Brazos Valley hosted a banned book giveaway and dance party. Daniel Handler, also ...
Teenage Wishaw author has first book published
Ryan Thompson, 13, began writing the novel, John Saves The World from Covid-19, during lockdown when he was just nine years ...
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Messi jerseys banned in Paraguay ahead of World Cup qualifier
Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni is confident there will be Lionel Messi jerseys in the home section despite the Paraguayan ...
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Most US book bans target children’s literature featuring diverse characters and authors of color
(THE CONVERSATION) Book bans in U.S. schools and libraries during the 2021-22 school year disproportionately targeted children’s books written by people of color – especially women of color – ...
Jodi Picoult’s ‘Nineteen Minutes’ tops PEN America of books banned in schools
Jodi Picoult remembers when everyone seemed to praise her novel “Nineteen Minutes," a 2007 bestseller about a school shooting ...
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Jodi Picoult novel the most banned book in US schools; Atwood, Alice Walker close behind
Jodi Picoult remembers when everyone seemed to praise her novel Nineteen Minutes, a 2007 bestseller about a school shooting that now tops a list compiled by PEN America of the books most banned in ...
Ellen Hopkins, Sarah J. Maas among most-banned authors in schools
The number of book bans in U.S. schools has surged, according to a report by PEN America, with many of the banned books ...