{"id":20948,"date":"2013-09-23T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=20948"},"modified":"2013-09-20T11:22:43","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T16:22:43","slug":"i-read-banned-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/i-read-banned-books\/","title":{"rendered":"I Read Banned Books."},"content":{"rendered":"

Here at the Davenport Public Library, we are celebrating our freedom to read during\u00a0Banned Books Week<\/a>\u00a0by reading frequently challenged and banned books. \u00a0From September 22nd until the 28th, we encourage you to stop by one of the DPL locations and pick up one of the books that have been banned or challenged at libraries across the country. \u00a0We will have many of the books on display, and as always, stop by the reference desk and we’ll help you find the book you need. \u00a0You might be surprised to find one of your favorites on the list<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 10 most frequently challenged books of 2012:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Captain Underpants<\/strong> <\/em>series<\/a>\u00a0by Dav Pilkey, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian<\/strong><\/em> <\/a>by Sherman Alexie, 13 Reasons Why<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Jay Asher,\u00a0Fifty Shades of Grey<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by E.L. James, And Tango Makes Three<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, The\u00a0Kite Runner<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Khaled Hosseini, Looking for Alaska<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by John Green, Scary Stories<\/strong><\/em> Series<\/a> by Alvin Schwartz, The Glass Castle<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Jeanette Walls, Beloved<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Toni Morrison<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here at the Davenport Public Library, we are celebrating our freedom to read during\u00a0Banned Books Week\u00a0by reading frequently challenged and banned books. \u00a0From September 22nd until the 28th, we encourage you to stop by one of the DPL locations and pick up one of the books that have been banned[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,14,13,1],"tags":[1355,831,2437,1356],"class_list":["post-20948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-library-news","category-news-you-can-use","category-reference","tag-banned-books","tag-banned-books-week","tag-challenged-books","tag-freedom-to-read"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-5rS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20948"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21011,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20948\/revisions\/21011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}