A display will be set up at the Summerland Library next week for Freedom to Read Week.
The display features books which have been the target of censorship attempts in the past. Some of the books which have been challenged over the years include the following:
Deliverance, by James Dickey
The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
Asha’s Mum, by Rosamund Elwin
Go ask Alice, by Anonymous
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, by Mordecai Richler
Underground to Canada, by Barbara Smucker
The Harry Potter Series, by J.K. Rowling
The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
The Golden Compass, by Phillip Pullman
Thomas’ Snowsuit, by Robert Munsch
The Book of Negroes, by Lawrence Hill
Who Has Seen the Wind, by W.O. Mitchell
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak
The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane
Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman.
