Barnes& Noble Book Fair

On Sunday, April 15 at 2pm, Barnes and Noble is hosting a Banned Book Fair.

Community members will read banned or challenged books such as Harry Potter, Of Mice and Men, and The Chocolate War. A percentage of the purchases made that afternoon will benefit the school libraries of Riverview and Sarasota High Schools.

On tap to read are librarians and professors, members of the clergy, physicians, attorneys, parents….and anyone who would like to participate.

Readers can choose from books banned or challenged in the last ten years, including:
•  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
•  The Chocolate War  and We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
•  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
•  Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
•  Forever, Deenie And Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret by Judy Blume
•  My Brother Sam is Dead by James and Christopher Collier
•  The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
•  It's Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
•  Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
•  A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
•  The Color Purple by Alice Walker
•  Earth's Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
•  A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
•  The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
•  Beloved and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
•  What's Happening to my Body?
         A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
•  To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

       Black Boy by Richard Wright

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
• In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
• The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
• A Time To  Kill by John Grisham

The exhibit and readings are supported by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)  of Sarasota/Manatee/DeSoto.