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- Go Ask Alice by Anonymous Go Ask Alice by Anonymous is a story about a teenage girl written in the format of a diary. Not much is told to us about the setting but the culture seems late 60's and the girl has no name, so we'll call her 'Alice'. Lots of spoilers on this lens. Wh...
- The Giver by Lois Lowry Lowry creates a perfect society...or so it seemed. In this future society everyone is happy. It is a society which has chosen to be ignorant of its past, blissfully ignorant. A society which has systematically chosen to give up individuality and free...
- Gifts for Librarians Being a librarian is a whole lot different from when I was growing up. Gone are the glasses on a chain. Gone are the stern looks and the SHHHHHHH!!! that could silence even the most hardcore talker. OK, well mostly. But a lot of neat people are now...
- Top Ten Banned Books The American Library Association has designated the last week of September for their campaign to celebrate banned (or challenged) books and freedom of speech. It's a great time to revisit some old classics as well as familiarize yourself with some n...
- Hagakure - The Book Of The Samurai Hagakure (Kyujitai or Shinjitai: meaning In the Shadow of Leaves), is a practical and spiritual guide for a warrior, drawn from a collection of commentaries by the samurai, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, former retainer to Nabeshima Mitsushige, the third ruler...
- Get your Goosebumps Here Since hitting the shelves and the airways, Goosebumps, by RL Stine has been a hit. Primarily with the tween and over crowd. Filled with good characterization, great plot, RL Stine keeps readers/viewers involved in the stories. Although teens and twe...
- Controversial Children's Books Of All Time Right now, I'm going to do a list of (supposedly) controversial children's books. Not sure if anybody else can top this list yet. What makes this list funny is that most of it is not even really controversial: what's so controversial about telling yo...
- Banned Book Shopping List What do Madonna and Mark Twain have in common? Both have written books that are consistantly challenged by those who wish to keep our libraries "safe". Well I say they can take their closemindedness and fearmongering and go...
- Comic Book Legal Defense Fund "The CBLDF exists to fight censorship and defend the first amendment rights of comic book professionals throughout the United States." Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, History
