Banned books week
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- September
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Sept. 23 through 30 is the American Library Association’s 25th Banned Books Week, where librarians remind residents that some of the books in their public and school libraries have raised the wrath of some people who have requested they be pulled from shelves.
Library administrators say that responsible parents ought to look over what their children are reading and lodge a formal complaint if they find something offensive either in a required reading list or on shelves, but remind parents that they have no right to censor books for children who are not their own.
“Everybody has different values. What’s of interest to me might not be of interest to the man next to me,” said Patricia Thorsen, assistant director of the White Plains Public Library. “But there’s no reason to take away somebody else’s right to read that book.”
White Plains has created a display of books that people have asked to be banned; Nanuet Public Library on Church Street in Nanuet is hosting Joe Raiola, senior editor of Mad Magazine, at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 28, for a discussion on censorship. The Nanuet discussion is free and open to the public.
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Reminds me of my days in grade school (parochial). I wasnt allowed to read certain books. so i read them on my own. Catcher in the Rye and Of Mice and Men .. etc…
I have my 11 year old reading catcher now. I figured its time specially with is attitude change, afterwich we will discuss it.