{"id":8675,"date":"2010-09-30T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=8675"},"modified":"2010-09-29T10:44:48","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T16:44:48","slug":"banned-books-week-september-25-october-2-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/banned-books-week-september-25-october-2-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books Week &#8212; September 25-October 2, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|133582\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8714\" title=\"killmockingbird\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/killmockingbird.jpg?resize=128%2C189&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/issuesadvocacy\/banned\/bannedbooksweek\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Banned Books Week<\/strong><\/a> is an annual event sponsored\u00a0by the American Library Association; it&#8217;s purpose\u00a0is to celebrate the freedom to read. At the Davenport Public Library, we&#8217;ve got displays up at our three locations showing some of the many books that have been challenged,\u00a0banned or restricted over the years.\u00a0 You might\u00a0be surprised to find some of your favorite titles on the list! \u00a0Here are a few of my favorites that someone, at sometime, deemed inappropriate:<a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|188182\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8715\" title=\"grapeswrath\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/grapeswrath.jpg?resize=125%2C193&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|133582\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by Harper Lee<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|196287\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Mark Twain<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|188182\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Grapes of Wrath<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by John Steinbeck<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|137376\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Call of the Wild<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Jack London<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Where&#8217;s Waldo<\/strong><\/em> by Martin Handford<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|448138\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>The Diary of a Young Girl<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by Anne Frank<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Come check out our display and accompanying brochure with titles of even more banned books.\u00a0\u00a0Maybe this would be the perfect time to read one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banned Books Week is an annual event sponsored\u00a0by the American Library Association; it&#8217;s purpose\u00a0is to celebrate the freedom to read. At the Davenport Public Library, we&#8217;ve got displays up at our three locations showing some of the many books that have been challenged,\u00a0banned or restricted over the years.\u00a0 You might\u00a0be<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/banned-books-week-september-25-october-2-2010\/\">[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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[1355,846,1356,829],"class_list":["post-8675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reference","tag-banned-books","tag-censorship","tag-freedom-to-read","tag-intellectual-freedom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-2fV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8675","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=8675"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8729,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8675\/revisions\/8729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}