Banned Books & Censorship: Find Books about Banned Books

This book contains a list of all of the books that have been banned or challenged in the United States.For each challenged book, this book shows when it was banned, where it banned, and why it was banned.

The book is arranged by author's last name, so if you wanted to find out why Judy Blume's Forever was banned, you would look in the B section for Blume. 

This balanced volume examines the surprisingly nuanced issues of book banning.

This examination of banned books across U.S. history examines the motivations and effects of censorship, shows us how our view of right and wrong has evolved over the years, and helps readers to understand the tremendous importance of books and films in our society.

This text is a tool to help librarians, teachers, and young readers become aware of the social issues that are most often at the center of the majority of book challenges for children.

This book presents summaries and censorship accounts of books that have been banned throughout history for political, religious, sexual, and social reasons.

This text presents a survey of eleven major book banning incidents, a look at laws regarding book banning, interviews with authors of banned books, and an annotated listing of the fifty most challenged books from 1996-2000.

After you've discovered what your book was banned for by using Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read, you can look in these books for a longer description on why your book was banned. For example, if you're reading Forever, by Judy Blume, you can look in the Literature Repressed on Sexual Grounds book to find out more information to use as a second source on this book.