Teaching Banned Books

Scales, Pat R

ISBN 10: 0838908071 / ISBN 13: 9780838908075

Published by ALA Editions, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Teaching Banned Books
• Publisher: ALA Editions
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0838908071
• ISBN 13: 9780838908075
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

Who hasn't read Blubber? And yet, published in 1974 and a New York Times Outstanding Book, it remains one of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books and is kept out of many school libraries. As a standard-bearer for intellectual freedom, the school librarian is in an ideal position to collaborate with teachers to not only protect the freedom to read but also ensure that valued books with valuable lessons are not quarantined from the readers for whom they were written. In this classroom and library-ready book of discussion guides, award-winning champion of children's literature Pat Scales shows that there is a way to teach these books while respecting all views. The twelve books chosen for inclusion in Teaching Banned Books, all challenged at one time or another, are jumping off points for rich and engaging discussion among young readers, their librarians and teachers, and their parents. Each guide includes a summary of the novel, a pre-reading activity, tips for introducing the topic, critical-thinking discussion questions, and an annotated bibliography of related fiction and nonfiction. Describing a literature discussion program she set up as a middle school librarian, Scales

About the Author

Pat R. Scales is director of library services at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts. She spent 28 years as a middle school librarian and has taught children's literature at Furman University since 1976. She received ALA's Grolier Foundation Award in 1997, and was honored with the AASL/SIRS Intellectual Freedom Award in 1983. She more recently was named one of the five most influential librarians in the 20th century in South Carolina. Scales served as chair of the 1992 Newbery Award Committee and of the 2001 Laura Ingalls Wilder Committee.