{"id":1933,"date":"2011-04-12T12:04:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T17:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=1933"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:11:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:11:32","slug":"alas-top-ten-most-frequently-challenged-books-list-2010-via-mobylives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/12\/alas-top-ten-most-frequently-challenged-books-list-2010-via-mobylives\/","title":{"rendered":"ALA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top ten \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Most Frequently Challenged\u00e2\u20ac\u009d books list, 2010 (via MobyLives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mhpbooks.com\/mobylives\/?p=30500\"><img src='http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/banned-revolutionary.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Off the list this year are such classics as Alice Walker\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcs \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Color Purple\u00e2\u20ac\u009d; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153To Kill A Mockingbird\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Harper Lee; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Catcher in the Rye\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by J.D. Salinger; and Robert Cormier\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcs \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Chocolate War.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Replacing them are books reflecting a range of themes and ideas that include \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Brave New World\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Aldous Huxley;  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Sherman Alexie; \u00e2\u20ac\u009dThe Hunger Games\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Suzanne Collins; and Stephenie Meyer\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcs \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Twilight.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153While we firmly support the right of every reader to choose or reject a book for themselves or their families, those objecting to a particular book should not be given the power to restrict other readers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 right to access and read that book,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Barbara Jones, director of ALA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office for Intellectual Freedom.  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153As members of a pluralistic and complex society, we must have free access to a diverse range of viewpoints on the human condition in order to foster critical thinking and understanding.  We must protect one of the most precious of our fundamental rights \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the freedom to read.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/mhpbooks.com\/mobylives\/?p=30500\">MOBYLIVES \u00c2\u00bb Amy Sonnie makes the ALA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top ten \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Most Frequently Challenged\u00e2\u20ac\u009d books list<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Off the list this year are such classics as Alice Walker\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcs \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Color Purple\u00e2\u20ac\u009d; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153To Kill A Mockingbird\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Harper Lee; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Catcher in the Rye\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by J.D. Salinger; and Robert Cormier\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcs \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Chocolate War.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Replacing them are books reflecting a range of themes and ideas that include \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Brave New World\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Aldous Huxley; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/12\/alas-top-ten-most-frequently-challenged-books-list-2010-via-mobylives\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ALA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top ten \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Most Frequently Challenged\u00e2\u20ac\u009d books list, 2010 (via MobyLives<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,1],"tags":[319,320,321,45],"class_list":["post-1933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","category-general","category-information","tag-ala","tag-banned","tag-bannedbooks","tag-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10175,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions\/10175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}