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Banned Books Week

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Put a ban on censorship; read a BANNED BOOK! Celebrate your freedom to read whatever you want by checking out the books we have here in Benicia that other schools and libraries have banned from their collections.

A sample list of books which have been banned in the past:

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) by Mark Twain, for racist terms

As I Lay Dying (1932) by William Faulkner, for language

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Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Book Your Church Doesn't Want You To Read (1995)by Tim C. Leedom, Editor
Don't Call Me Brother by Austin Miles, for anti-Christian messages
Foreverby Judy Blume, for sexuality
Grapes of Wrath (1939)by John Steinbeck, for language


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