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Libraries want you to read banned books, Fletcher Free Library has Wednesday readings

April Barton
Burlington Free Press

Like a scene out of the Ray Bradbury classic, Fahrenheit 451, libraries across the nation want to alert readers to the problems of censorship.

Banned Book Week is an opportunity to read books that may have been banned or challenged for one reason or another. 

As part of Banned Book Week Sept. 27 through Oct. 3, Fletcher Free Library in Burlington will have a live reading this afternoon, Wednesday, Sept. 30, with special guests reading excerpts from selected banned titles. Tanya Lee Stone will be reading from her own banned book, Mike DeSanto of Phoenix Books and former principal Amy Mellencamp will all be reading, according to the Fletcher Free website

Banned Book Week began in 1982 "in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries," according to BannedBooksWeek.org.

The Fletcher Free Library provides lists of the 100 most banned books by decade and the most banned or challenged books of the past decade.

More recent titles include the Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey, Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher, Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, and A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twissand. 

If you go:

What: Warning! A Banned Books Community

When: Wednesday, Sept. 30, 3-6 p.m. 

Where: Fletcher Free Library lawn, 235 College St., Burlington

Contact April Barton at abarton@freepressmedia.com or 802-660-1854. Follow her on Twitter @aprildbarton.

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