{"id":2838,"date":"2006-09-25T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2838"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:44","slug":"banned-baby-what-are-you-reading-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2838","title":{"rendered":"Banned, Baby! What Are You Reading Today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 145px; HEIGHT: 146px\" height=\"204\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"http:\/\/www.northernsun.com\/images\/thumb\/9087BannedBooks.jpg\" width=\"195\" align=\"left\" \/>My Challenged Book of the Day is cute and funny <a href=\"http:\/\/readersrants.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/it-was-banned-baby-sex-kittens-horn.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sex Kittens &#038; Horn Dawgs Fall in Love<\/a>, by <a href=\"http:\/\/maryrosewood.typepad.com\/kittensanddawgs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maryrose Wood<\/a>; my Banned Book for today is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksense.com\/product\/info.jsp?affiliateId=ReadersResponse&#038;isbn=0060507837\" target=\"_blank\">Athletic Shorts<\/a>, by Chris Crutcher. Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/Template.cfm?Section=News&amp;template=\/ContentManagement\/ContentDisplay.cfm&#038;ContentID=138540\" target=\"_blank\">American Library Association&#8217;s<\/a> website this week to learn the difference between <em>banned <\/em>and <em>challenged, <\/em>and find out what this book-banning, book-burning thing is all about. Speak, think and read freely!<\/p>\n<p>The ALA lists the ten most challenged YA books as:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li>Athletic Shorts, by Chris Crutcher<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Deenie, by Judy Blume<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Forever, by Judy Blume<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The Pigman, by Paul Zindel<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Lord of the Flies, by Wiliam Golding<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Running Loose by Chris Crutcher<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p>I am proud to say that <em>I have read all of these books!<\/em> Go, rebel readers!<\/p>\n<p>A very cool opportunity for those who are great reviewers (and you know I mean YOU!): not only is the newest <a href=\"http:\/\/kidslitinformation.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/call-for-reviews.html\" target=\"_blank\">Edge of the Forest<\/a> up and running (and do drop in to peruse the interview with the fabulous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rickriordan.com\" target=\"_blank\">Rick Riordan<\/a> as well as the other great pieces by the very talented writers and reviewers in the blogosphere), our Kid Lit Kelly is looking for reviewers for October. Give her a holler if you&#8217;re interested!<\/p>\n<p>Another great list over at <a href=\"http:\/\/slayground.livejournal.com\/129939.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bildungsroman<\/a>: <em>Sassy Sidekicks of Children&#8217;s Literature<\/em>. Who&#8217;s the best Hermione to your favorite Harry or the helpful Diana Barry to your Anne? Add to the list, keep the ball rolling. And I&#8217;m late with this, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wandsandworlds.com\/blog1\/2006\/09\/seventh-carnival-of-childrens.html\" target=\"_blank\">Seventh Carnival of Children&#8217;s Literature<\/a> is up, which is a great round-up of book reviews, as well as bloggings on topics from the troubles of to <a href=\"http:\/\/discomermaids.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/disco-mermaidsat-work-robin.html\" target=\"_blank\">writing an algebra comic book<\/a> (yikes!) to <a href=\"http:\/\/bloomabilities.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/do-you-know-your-own-mind.html\" target=\"_blank\">racism in literature<\/a>, and more. Give yourself a few hours, and read through! You&#8217;ll be glad you did, and you&#8217;ll discover new bloggers whose musings you won&#8217;t want to miss. Meanwhile, heads up: next month&#8217;s book carnival is Halloween themed, and <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar-blog.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/eighth-carnival-of-childrens.html\" target=\"_blank\">Scholar&#8217;s Blog<\/a> says submissions are due October 15th.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theboyfriendlist.com\/e_lockhart_blog\/2006\/09\/ya_authors_cafe.html\" target=\"_blank\">e. lockhart&#8217;s<\/a> site, The <a href=\"http:\/\/mysite.verizon.net\/selimsa803\/default.html\" target=\"_blank\">YA Writer&#8217;s Cafe<\/a> is back, Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m. Pacific, 8:30 p.m. EST! It&#8217;s a chance to hang out with YA authors and listen and ask questions as they talk shop. The list of <a href=\"http:\/\/mysite.verizon.net\/selimsa803\/feature.html\" target=\"blank\">featured guests<\/a> will knock your socks off. You don&#8217;t have to register, or be an actual author to hang out, listen and learn. Check it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Challenged Book of the Day is cute and funny Sex Kittens &#038; Horn Dawgs Fall in Love, by Maryrose Wood; my Banned Book&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-2838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3698,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions\/3698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}