Sources on Objectionable Content in Young Adult Literature

http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041023/NEWS01/410230322/1079

http://www.advocate.com/news/2004/11/12/iowa-towns-school-board-approves-use-gay-themed-books-14340
These are the three articles we will be reading as a class. Make sure you read and annotate them:

1. "The Banned Books We Have Loved" by Jen Doll

2. The 'sick-lit' books aimed at children: It's a disturbing phenomenon. Tales of teenage cancer, self-harm and suicide...

By TANITH CAREY

3. "Darkness too Visible" by Meghan Cox Gourdon

Choose 1 more article to print, read, annotate, and use in your argument essay. Write a summary of it in your notebook. Due Wednesday October 16.

1. Read about a petition against The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.

http://www.change.org/petitions/adams-12-school-district-remove-developmentally-inappropriate-graphic-content-from-the-instructional-reading-list

2. This is an academic article about trying to remove a particular book because of historical innacuracies.
‘So Far From the Bamboo Grove’ Contains Inaccuracies, They Say

http://www.uml.edu/News/stories/2009-10/ed_faculty_speak_out.aspx

3.Article about banning Harry Potter:  "Man from Ministry Bans Potter"

http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2007/10/25/man_from_ministry_bans_potter/

4.Article criticizing the trend of darkness in teen literature:

Teen fiction plots are darker and starker

By William Porter 

http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_12755552

5. Article showing pro's and con's of a rating system for books:
"Age-rated books: Right or Wrong?" 

6. "Why the Best Kids Books Are Written in Blood?" by Sherman Alexie

7."Has Young Adult Fiction Become too Dark?" by Mary Elizabeth Williams

8. "Texas: If You Can't Ban Books, Ban Authors" by Phil Bildner