<p>WHY IS a handmaid's tale banned in my high school library?
is it banned in yours?
is it inappropriate for us to read?
I heard it was amazing , but for some reason they took it off the shelves because of 'inappropriate' content.</p>
<p>so do you recommend that high school sophomores should read it?</p>
<p>I love that book, I read it last summer (I'm a sophomore). It is an amazing story of dystopia, love, and humanity, and I recommend it highly. There is some sexual content, but it's far from graphic, The House of the Spirits, by Isabel Allende, had more inappropriate material, and we read it in our English class this year. Go find it at the public library!</p>
<p>actually, it was part of my english class curriculum last year (junior year). i loved it, it's worth reading.</p>
<p>ha, catcher in the rye is banned from our library. huckleberry finn was also banned from our library for several years (not now though)</p>
<p>love love love that book. some of it's a little narsty though, I can see why it was banned-though I think it's wrong-esp if you go to a public school</p>
<p>Why is Harry Potter banned?</p>
<p>Why are any books banned?</p>
<p>Harry Potter has been banned from our library...but we're a Christian school.
Still...=/</p>
<p>i read it in honors 11th.. it was good.. best book we read all year. maybe b/c of female issues and sex (can i say that?)</p>
<p>Odd. We don't have any books banned. </p>
<p>The only thing that's even censored is a sexual scene in Waterland. It is censored by strips of whiteout paper over it, which all of our books instantly opened to. My teacher said "It goes to show that the way to make something more obvious, is by banning it." And then we had a discussion about how banning something increases its popularity and then the ethical dilemma of censorship.</p>
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<p>I just found this in our school newspaper in the library section.
"Banned Books Week Teen T-shirt: Oct. 3, at 4:30 p.m. Celebrate the First Amendment by creating a freedom of speech t-shirt. All supplies provided. Registration required."
We don't ban books :]</p>
<p>Nope, we don't have it banned. I'd know. I work in the school library. </p>
<p>They just don't have it. No patrons to read it... </p>
<p>The Handmaid tale was not really to my taste. Too much feminism amidst an unrealistic, implausible scenario with too much of a bleak, pessimistic look at social values. I gave up on it midway.</p>
<p>We don't have banned books, but if that is banned, why don't they ban Valley of Horses. It has some pretty graphic scenes.</p>
<p>well apparently, the librarian said they used to have it but parents reacted when they saw that students had access to these books. I'm buying a copy from a local library anyways.</p>
<p>i read it last year for ap english language
its a pretty cool book
i dont see whats so bad about it</p>
<p>Isn't Where's Waldo one of the most challenged books?</p>
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<p>Oh, I heard about the address labels in Waterland. In Massachusetts, where the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was once banned, Mark Twain thanked the government for increasing his sales because 1) its status as banned made some people wonder why it was banned, and 2) since they couldn't ban sales for private ownership, more people had to go out and buy the book instead of checking it out from a library.</p>
<p>Exactly. You should take AP Eng next year and talk to Read about it. It's a very interesting convo lol.</p>
<p>Why would Waldo be challenged?</p>
<p>No idea, but I like the way you framed that question.</p>
<p>My school is super liberal. We don't have any books banned, either.</p>
<p>WE read it in AP lit as part of the AP Course work</p>
<p>How do you know if book aren't banned at your schools?</p>