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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction...
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction...
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Mr. Lemoncello has invited teams from all across America to compete in the first ever LIBRARY OLYMPICS...but someone is trying to censor what the kids are reading"--
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In the long-awaited follow-up to his 2016 best-seller The Strange Death of Europe, Douglas Murray interrogates the vicious new culture wars playing out in our media, universities, homes and perhaps the most violent place of all: online. The Madness of Crowds is a must-read polemic-a vociferous demand for a return to free speech in an age of mass hysteria and political correctness. The global conversations around sexuality, race, mental health and...
4) Banned book
Author
Publisher
Creative Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The text follows the story of a book that is first subjected to redaction, then removal from a library, and finally disposal.
5) Ink girls
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In a vibrant city that thrives on trade and invention, two girls from very different walks of life join forces to fight censorship and protect the people they love"--
6) Disclose
Author
Series
Verify volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Meri Buckley has lost everything. She lost her mother to a fight much bigger than herself. Her father to grief, fear, and denial. And the truth--to an overbearing government that insists that censorship and secrecy is the only path to peace. But though Meri and her band of truth- seeking Stewards did lose the first battle in their quest to enlighten the public, they have not yet lost the war. Meri can start the revolution she seeks, if the powerful...
Author
Series
Thursday Next novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection in a time-altered Great Britain in which messing with the classics is a punishable offense, sets out to apprehend a criminal who is murdering characters from works of literature and has chosen Jane Eyre as his next victim.
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
On February 14, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a call from a journalist informing him that he had been "sentenced to death" by the Ayatollah Khomeini. It was the first time Rushdie heard the word fatwa. His crime? Writing a novel, The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being "against Islam, the Prophet, and the Quran." So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground for more than nine years, moving from house to house, with...
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
"Napoleon the Little" is a fascinating biographical analysis of the life and deeds of Napoleon III written by Victor Hugo. Napoleon I's nephew imposed censorship and harsh repressive measures against his opponents, and many people – including Victor Hugo – went into voluntary exile. Hugo wrote this book as an attempt to awaken his fellow citizens to the dangers they faced under the tyranny of Napoleon III. It is a fascinating insight into the...
10) North Korea's Hidden Revolution: How the Information Underground Is Transforming a Closed Society
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
One of the least understood countries in the world, North Korea has long been known for its repressive regime. Yet it is far from being an impenetrable black box. Media flows covertly into the country, and fault lines are appearing in the government's sealed informational borders. Drawing on deeply personal interviews with North Korean defectors from all walks of life, ranging from propaganda artists to diplomats, Jieun Baek tells the story of North...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
How censorship turned a terrible disease into an assault on rights
As COVID-19 spread around the world, so did government censorship. The Infodemic lays bare not just old-fashioned censorship, but also the mechanisms of a modern brand of "censorship through noise," which moves beyond traditional means of state control—such as the jailing of critics and restricting the flow of information—to open the floodgates of
...12) Ban this book
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A fourth grader fights back when From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg is challenged by a well-meaning parent and taken off the shelves of her school library. Amy Anne is shy and soft-spoken, but don't mess with her when it comes to her favorite book in the whole world. Amy Anne and her lieutenants wage a battle for the books that will make you laugh and pump your fists as they start a secret banned books locker...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
A #1 New York Times Bestseller!
"I read it cover-to-cover. I did not intend to, but I started at the beginning and didn't put it down until it was over."—Rachel Maddow, MSNBC
This book almost didn't see the light of day as government officials tried to bar its publication.
The Inside Story of the Real President Trump, by His Former Attorney and Personal Advisor—The Man Who Helped Get Him Into the Oval...
"I read it cover-to-cover. I did not intend to, but I started at the beginning and didn't put it down until it was over."—Rachel Maddow, MSNBC
This book almost didn't see the light of day as government officials tried to bar its publication.
The Inside Story of the Real President Trump, by His Former Attorney and Personal Advisor—The Man Who Helped Get Him Into the Oval...
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