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Banned Books Week 1997
September 20-28
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"There is nothing
more frightening than active ignorance" Goethe
The St. Charles
Public Library DOES NOT BAN these books or any others.
Books Frequently
Challenged in the 1990s
Of Mice and
Men by John Steinbeck
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
Christine by Stephen King
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Night Chills by Dean Koontz
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Cujo by Stephen King
Grendel by John Gardner
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Web sites that
explore the issues involved in Banned Books
This list was prepared
by the St. Charles Public Library, September 1997.
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