Freedom to Read Week - 20-26 February 2011

It is Freedom to Read Week in Canada! This is a week to celebrate freedom of expression and give recognition to those individuals and organizations that actively work to expand and maintain this liberty in Canada.

Library Services is a proud supporter of Freedom to Read Week. To show our support, we will have a book display that will present a collection of titles that have been banned or challenged. The display will be near the library's entrance and some of the titles that you will find include:

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)
  
  
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  
  
• Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey
  
  
• Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
  
  
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  
  
• Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling
  
  
• It’s Perfectly Normal: A Book about Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health by Robbie H. Harris
  
  
• The Kite Runner by  Khaled Hosseini
  
  
• Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
  

For a list of challenged books and magazines, and the reasons they were challenged, click here. To learn more about current censorship issues in Canada, read:  Freedom to Read (Vol. 27).

A very special thank you to the students that participated in our MHC Students Read Banned Books! poster.