Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Mr. Lemoncello has invited teams from all across America to compete in the first ever LIBRARY OLYMPICS...but someone is trying to censor what the kids are reading"-- Provided by publisher.
4) Banned books
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Explores the issues surrounding banned books by placing opinions from a wide range of sources in a pro/con format. Features articles that express various perspectives on this topic.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Dorrie and her brother Marcus accidently open a portal to Petrarch's Library, where they discover a secret society of warrior librarians who travel in time, protecting the world's greatest thinkers from torture and death for sharing knowledge and ideas.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Returning home from the War in Europe in 1946, hack writer Jacob Heppleman finds success as the author of scandalously best-selling crime novels, garnering the attention of Hollywood, Congress and the Mob, which could spell the end of his career—permanently.
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives over the past three millennia, stressing the social and political importance of the conservation and protection of knowledge.
11) Free press
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Examines a broad range of perceived or actual legal rights and freedoms that impact the lives of young American teens. This volume focuses on free press.
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Sharing candid interviews with 13 top children's and young adult authors who discuss why their books have faced censorship, a historian and critic puts First Amendment challenges into historical context and examines the support network that protects and defends young people's rights.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixth-grader Mac discovers several words of his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic are blacked out he is outraged, so he, his friends, and his eccentric family set out to do something about the censorship imposed by one teacher and the school board.
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Kanzi, the immigrant girl of the story The Arabic Quilt, has come to feel welcome in her American school--that is, until an entire shelf of books about immigrant kids and kids of color suddenly disappears from the school library. Upon learning that the books have been banned by her school district, Kanzi descends into fear and helplessness. But her classmates support her, and together--with their teacher's help--they hatch a plan to hold a bake sale...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"When Donovan left his copy of The Adventurers on the kitchen counter, he didn't think his mom would read it--much less have a problem with it. It's just an adventure novel about two characters trying to stop an evil genius. But soon the entire town is freaking out about whether the book's main characters are gay, Donovan's mom is trying to get the book removed from the school's fifth grade curriculum, and Donovan is caught in the middle"--
16) The tunnels: escapes under the Berlin Wall and the historic films the JFK White House tried to kill
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request