Tag Archives: Kids’ Right To Read

Sign This Petition: Don’t Censor Neil Gaiman’s ‘Neverwhere’ in Alamogordo

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Blog of the National Coalition Against Censorship

If you’re like us, the recent removal of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere from Alamogordo Public School classrooms has caused you to feel anything from confusion to just-plain-no-way-you-can’t-be-serious anger. Now you can take action: A parent in Alamogordo has started a petition on Change.org … Continue reading →

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Set ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Free in Plaquemines PSD English Classrooms

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Blog of the National Coalition Against Censorship

In the middle of a unit on Harper Lee’s classic American novel To Kill a Mockingbird, students at Belle Chasse High School in Lousiana were informed they wouldn’t be finishing the book. Apparently, their teachers told them, the book is banned. … Continue reading →

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Want to get involved in #BannedBooksWeek? Defend books being challenged RIGHT NOW

Posted on September 26, 2013 by Blog of the National Coalition Against Censorship

It’s not just Catcher in the Rye anymore. The Randolph County school board in North Carolina voted yesterday to restore access to Invisible Man. Public statements of support from readers, students and citizen moved them to have a change of … Continue reading →

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Talking Freedom to Read with Lauren Myracle in NoLa

Posted on September 24, 2013 by Blog of the National Coalition Against Censorship

Celebrated YA author Lauren Myracle joined Acacia O’Connor of the Kids’ Right to Read Project and ABFFE’s Chris Finan on a panel at the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance conference in New Orleans on September 20, 2013. In addition to talking … Continue reading →

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Talks Cancelled for YA Authors Meg Medina and Rainbow Rowell

Posted on September 13, 2013 by Blog of the National Coalition Against Censorship

For whatever reason, it sometimes seems that censorship battles crop up in pairs or groups of three. In May 2012, for example, the Kids’ Right to Read Project began battling the removal of Todd Parr’s The Family Book and other GLSEN … Continue reading →

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Adult Anxieties Over Young Adult Fiction Endure

Posted on July 29, 2013 by Blog of the National Coalition Against Censorship

Over at NCAC participating organization CBLDF, Maren Williams has a great blog post refuting arguments that “dark lit” irrevocably harms the innocent minds of today’s youths. We’re sharing it here for you as well… Every once in a while, some … Continue reading →

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Read ‘Em and Weep: Quotes from a Real, Live Book Censorship Debate over Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye”

Posted on July 17, 2013 by Blog of the National Coalition Against Censorship

The following may inspire tears of pride and/or rage, depending on your disposition. They are Change.org quotes from two petitions: one on each side of a debate over the use of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and other texts in Adams … Continue reading →

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Come Bid at the Children’s Art Auction TOMORROW to Benefit Kids’ Right to Read

Posted on May 28, 2013 by Blog of the National Coalition Against Censorship

NCAC partner organization and Kids’ Right to Read Project co-founder the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression is hosting their annual auction of children’s book artwork. The auction will be held in the River Pavilion at the Jacob Javits Center … Continue reading →

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Marjane Satrapi to CPS: ‘Find your Brain Again. Stop Lying’

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Blog of the National Coalition Against Censorship

Khury Petersen-Smith of SocialistWorker.org caught up with Persepolis author Marjane Satrapi to talk about the shady restrictions being placed on the teaching of her book in Chicago. Again, Satrapi showed her insight and savvy and aptly expressed the utter confusion and dismay … Continue reading →

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Too Soon or Censorship? “The Librarian of Basra” & Third Graders

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Blog of the National Coalition Against Censorship

This morning’s news feeds boasted two stories that grabbed our attention, in particular because they dovetail so perfectly with the recent controversy in Chicago Public Schools surrounding Persepolis.  One is about drama that has ensued after the California DOE decided to … Continue reading →

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