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Outcome. Banning of thousands of books from school libraries in many states. Starting in 2021, there have been a considerable number of books banned or challenged in parts of the United States. Most of the targeted books have to do with race, gender, and sexuality. Unlike most book challenges in the past, whereby parents or other stakeholders ...
The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling was the most challenged work from 2000 to 2009. Its topics relating to things such as witchcraft have generated controversy. The second oldest works featured on the list were written by Mark Twain. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) is often challenged for its language and discussion of racism.
Book censorship is the removal, suppression, or restricted circulation of literary, artistic, or educational material on the grounds that it is morally or otherwise objectionable according to the standards applied by the censor. [1] The first instance of book censorship in what is now known as the United States, took place in 1637 in modern-day ...
Requests to ban books at US public schools and libraries surged to a 21-year record in 2022, according to data from the American Library Association.. Last year, the ALA recorded 1,050 requests to ...
The American Library Association said that the number of books challenged in libraries across the U.S. spiked 65% in 2023 over the previous year. Book ban attempts reached historic high last year ...
The rules will not be finalized until after Jan. 1, when penalties for violating the law go into effect. Public hearings for the rules are scheduled from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Jan. 3 and 10:30 to 11 a ...
Book burning. List of book-burning incidents. Nazi book burnings. Burning of books and burying of scholars. Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parlament of England. Index Librorum Prohibitorum. List of most commonly challenged books in the United States.
3rd-grade teacher shares how Tennessee ‘book ban’ law keeps her students from reading books in class. Cassie Morris. September 19, 2022 at 5:16 PM ... Once the code is scanned by students ...
Ray-Ban is a brand of luxury sunglasses and eyeglasses created in 1936 by Bausch & Lomb. The brand is best known for its Wayfarer and Aviator lines of sunglasses. In 1999, Bausch & Lomb sold the brand to Italian eyewear conglomerate Luxottica Group for a reported $640 million.
A light novel (ライトノベル, raito noberu) is a style of Japanese young adult fiction primarily targeting high school and middle school students. The term "light novel" is a wasei-eigo, or a Japanese term formed from words in the English language. or, in English, LN. The average length of a light novel is about 50,000 words.