Thursday, March 8, 2012

Celebrate Literacy Month - Read a Banned Book!

Celebrate Rotary Literacy Month and your freedom to read by reading a Banned Book! The following books have been challenged or banned in both Canada and the United States:

The Harry Potter Series by J.K Rowling
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriett Beecher Stowe
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
1984 by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

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