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Censorship Causes Blindness: Read!
Celebrate Banned Books Week, not by reading one but by checking out one of these titles about what happens
when the culture of censorship reigns supreme.
Click the title below to see if the book is in the library at this time.
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Bradbury, Ray
Fahrenheit 451
Imagine a world where firemen start fires, instead of putting them out -- and every fire gets up to 451 degrees,
the temperature at which books paper burns... |
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Crutcher, Chris
The Sledding Hill
Billy Bartholomew is dead, but that won't stop him from helping his best friend stand up to a conservative minister
who is orchestrating a censorship challenge. |
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Cushman, Karen
The Loud Silence of Francine Green
When her outspoken friend Sophie is kicked out of school for painting "There is no free speech here" on the
gymnasium floor, eighth-grader Francine begins to learn what censorship is all about. |
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DeVita, James
The Silenced
Marena remembers a better time: a time before her parents were murdered, a time when she was allowed to read and write,
a time before the world was silenced. |
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Doctorow, Cory
Little Brother
Swept off the streets after a terrorist attack and interrogated for days, Marcus can't help but be relieved
when he's finally released -- until he realizes that his beloved San Francisco is rapidly becoming a police state,
and no one thoughts are safe. |
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Fukui, Isamu
Truancy
The educational system is used to control the citizens, and fifteen-year-old Tack wants to shake things up.
But will he join the renegade Truants, despite their having caused a loved-one's death?
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Hardinge, Frances
Masquerade
Taught to read by her scholar father, orphaned book lover Mosca Mye is an anomaly in a culture where literature
is highly suspect and tightly controlled.
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Marks, Graham
Omega Place
Paul runs away and joins Omega Place, a radical organization intent on upsetting England's closed-circuit
surveillance system, but soon discovers that the other members of the group may not be entirely altruistic.
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Moore, Alan
V for Vendetta
In an alternate future in which Germany wins WWII and Britain becomes a fascist state, a vigilante named
"V" stalks the streets of London trying to free England of its ideological chains. |
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Selzer, Adam
How to Get Suspended and Influence People: a Novel
Gifted eighth-grader Leon Harris becomes an instant celebrity when the film he makes for a class project
sends him to in-school suspension. |
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Spears, Rick
Teenagers From Mars
A chaotic comics extravaganza in which three teens strive against censorship, and adults, to protect the comics
they love.
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Zusak, Markus
The Book Thief
Narrated by Death himself, this is the tale of Liesel Meminger, a girl who secretly rescues books from destruction
at the hands of the Nazis. Liesel also harbors another secret: her family is hiding a Jewish prize fighter
in the basement, an offense punishable by death.
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List updated August, 2008.
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