Banned Books Week is Coming! Take a Stand (and win a banned book:)

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I Am a Reader, Not a Writer

Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and highlights the value of free and open access to information. Banned Books Week brings together the entire book community –- librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, book bloggers, and readers of all types –- in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular.

The books featured during Banned Books Week have all been targeted with removal or restrictions in libraries and schools. While books have been and continue to be banned, part of the Banned Books Week celebration is the fact that, in a majority of cases, the books have remained available. This happens only thanks to the efforts of librarians, teachers, students, and community members who stand up and speak out for the freedom to read.

Want to learn more? Check out the ALA's site on banned books HERE.

Banned Books Week 2012 marks its 30th anniversary and I want to give you the chance to win a a frequently challenged book. Here are a few examples to choose from:

• The Hunger Games trilogy, by Suzanne Collins
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
• Crank, by Ellen Hopkins 
• Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer 
• The Perks of Being A Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky 
• The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things, by Carolyn Mackler 
• His Dark Materials trilogy, by Philip Pullman 
• Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Beloved, by Toni Morrison 
• Forever, by Judy Blume 
• Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson 
• The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood  
• Harry Potter, by J.K. Rowling 
• Blood and Chocolate, by Annette Curtis Klause 
• Go Ask Alice, by Anonymous 

And because I am ALWAYS shocked when I see these classics on the Frequently Challenged List:

• Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck 
• The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger 
• To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
• Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
• The Color Purple, by Alice Walker 
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain 
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
• Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
• The Giver, by Lois Lowry
• The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton

You may choose any of these books OR any from THIS LIST or THIS LIST.

This giveaway will run from September 28 to October 6

You must be 13 years old to enter

This giveaway is international :)

All my usual policies apply. Read them HERE. 

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And please, whatever you do, DONT STOP READING :)

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