Celebrate Banned Books Week - Sept 25 - Oct 1

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Banned Books Week is a national celebration of free and open access to information, and the freedom to seek and express ideas — even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular.
Why are books challenged? Most challenges to books are made by parents. They are challenged based on religious grounds, offensive language, sexual grounds, and political grounds.  Banned books range from the latest bestsellers to classics, and nonfiction biographies to children's books. 
Check out our display in the Library Lobby of some of the titles that were challenged in 2015, and take one of this year's Banned Books Week bookmark. 
According to the American Library Association, more than 11,000 books have been challenged since 1982, most often for being sexually explicit or containing offensive language.
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