What Actually Happens When Young People Read Disturbing Books.
What actually happens when young people read “disturbing” books? Literary scholars Gay Ivey and Peter Johnston have studied this at length. And it's not the baloney banners spout to scare you. To discover the very real benefits - click on the post's title.
Bamboozled: This Fun & Fancy Word is more important than ever
To be tricked, fooled, or deceived. Like Tom Sawyer's fence-painting friends. But what is this Fun & Fancy Word's connection to book banning? To find out - click on the post's title.
“Anatomy of a Book Banning” by Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers' book The Circle was not only pulled from high school reading lists in Rapid City, South Dakota, it was on a list with several other books school officials decided should be destroyed. Yes destroyed. Eggers graciously gave This Book is Banned permission to publish a link to the following article he wrote about his experience with book banning. Be sure to give it a read - click on the post's title.
