Reading Copy Book Blog

Last week, the U.S. federal appeals court upheld the Miami-Dade School Board decision to ban a children’s book about Cuba.  The court ruled that the First Amendment was not breached when Vamos a Cuba (A Visit to Cuba) was pulled from library school shelves in 2006. Vamos a Cuba is part of a series aimed [...]

Bless Me, Ultima has been banned from the sophomore required reading list in central California.  The Newman Crows Landing Board of Education pulled the Chicano coming-of-age novel from high school classes based on the superintendent’s and trustees’ decision that the book contained too much profanity. Review of the novel began last year in response to [...]