Four of our authors this week have blogs: - Lois Lowry blogs about her life, her dog, her work, and responses to her work at her blog, Lowry Updates . - Adam Rex also blogs, and check out the National...interesting for the assumptions it makes about suitable topics for children's literature in general. ("Remember when children's books frolicked through tales of ponies and princes?" asks its subtitle.

Have you read Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger? If yes, please proceed to the following questions: -Did you like it? -Why or why not? -Did you know it's been on the most-banned novels in America... -Do you believe it should be banned? -Do you believe it is appropriate for high school students to read? -Do you believe it should be part of the high school curriculum? -Do you believe it is a "classic"?  

Nancy Garden - Annie On My Mind Genre: YA, fiction Score: 5/5 I originally got this to read during Banned Books Week, which was September 27th through to October 4th, but life, as ever, failed...books a favour and got people reading them just out of sheer curiosity. I just looked at the list a few months ago and randomly picked one I hadn't read. I'm glad I did as Annie was a cracking read.

Librarians tend to be very easy going. There is not much that would get us riled up as a group. But there are a couple buttons that we have that set us off. The biggest of which is censorship. There are...allow. And Captain Underpants is flying around the Children’s Library ready for anyone to pickup and read.  But we must always be mindful of any attempts to limit information for everyone.  

I got this from bookish  , and I thought that it was definitely something to do while bored. The results are interesting as well. The following is a list of books that have been banned somewhere...Snyder  So I've read 23/115 of the Banned books and partially read 10/115 of the Banned book as well as owning 2 but not having read them yet. Hmm I should read more of these banned books....  

--Don't you just hate random assignments that are supposed to be long, but then you look at the paper and go 'WTF am I going to write about this?'. I wish I could just write some little fan fiction-y...what they're saying/posting. How do you do that? So... I guess that's it for now, because I've run out of stupid nobody-even-really-cares-about-your-boring-life things to say... so, bye I guess...

First: MOAR TWILIGHT. Yes, I did promise to do a 15M of the movie. I promised last May when I saw the first trailer, so y'all can relax. Twilight' Trailer Reactions: Some Fans Are Still Speechless...'W.' Web Site Reaches Out to the Dead-Language Crowd. 14 horror-movie Musts! ; Zombie-movie preparedness kit! Don't Inject Ladies with Gorilla Blood [Found Footage].

I just saw a commercial in which a happy little girl came home from school and presented her mother with the picture book King & King, saying that she read this book in school where a prince marries a...you are eligible to vote, please do. If you are eligible but have not registered yet, please do so right now . Stop putting it off. Stop making excuses. Registering will only take a minute. Thank you

Brave New World Aldous Huxley Bantam Books 1968   In honor of Banned Books Week, October 27th – October 3rd, I read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley for the first time. It was one of...familiar. Brave New World is one of those books that will continue to stick around and make people think, far into the future.   4 stars   Recommended for teens and up.  

  I found these pics and a reminder to Celebrate Banned Books Week (through October 4 but any day is a good day to read a banned book!)  from an acquaintence and his "Blog of the Grateful Bear." ...animated look!  H  A  P  P  Y                R           E               A            D            I           N            G