People are putting in their bid to ban three of Laurie Halse Anderson's books. Speak,Twisted, and Wintergirls are all in to be put at risk. Most of Laurie Halse Anderson's books deal with hard subject matter, coping with finding your voice after rape, overcoming anorexia, grieving over a lost parent. However, the board is claiming it is for certain segments of the book. The board member that cast the vote said:

"rape victims, children who are emotionally and developmentally immature and those seriously interested in being prepared for college can stick to classics and other works without graphic rape scenes."

"Graphic rape scenes"? What has she been reading, Barney's Easter Egg Hunt? The only thing said was that it hurt and he held her down, I could have guessed that. If that was too "graphic" then they have a lot more books to ban after this. "Stick to classics", spoken like a person who doesn't read any classics. The "classics" can be very violent, people die or get hurt in a more "graphic" manner. Classics (unlike the board) don't hide or sugar coat.

Wintergirls has also been called a "guide" for teens looking to starve themselves. *Rolls eyes* A teen that wants to starve will find a way. The book should not be held back, because someone thinks the information is a bit much. Laurie herself said it best:

“We don’t protect our teenagers by holding back information.”

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Are they serious? I love Speak.
Girls who want to starve themselves aren't going to read a book to find out how, there's tv, internet, magazines. The scenes aren't graphic, i've read some that really are and this one isn't. In classics there's fighting and killing. I agree with you Melzz.

Thanks, Vivi. Some bans don't go through, and some do. I just hope it goes like Harry Potter's banning goes. People keep trying to axe him and it never works.

I've only read Speak, so i wouldn't know what to say about the others

Melzz wrote: "People are putting in their bid to ban three of Laurie Halse Anderson's books. Speak,Twisted, and Wintergirls are all in to be put at risk...."

D : What the heck? Speak was in no way sort or form too "graphic. You're right, what book are they reading? Definitely not the same books that I've been reading. Goodness, if they ban her books, I'll boycott them. I promise you I will.

Vivi wrote: "Are they serious? I love Speak.
Girls who want to starve themselves aren't going to read a book to find out how, there's tv, internet, magazines. The scenes aren't graphic, i've read some that rea..."

Speak was a wonderful book. I agree 110%.

OMG those are three of my all time favorite books especially Twisted.

Ambizzle wrote: "OMG those are three of my all time favorite books especially Twisted."

I loved Twisted. But Speak is my all time fav book (so far). I loved it

♥Jenny♥ wrote: "Goodness, if they ban her books, I'll boycott them. I promise you I will."

Yes, and I'd buy many copies of the books to spread around to everyone I know. The more they try to hide it, the more it will be shown.

Nice. : )

Yup, the prohibited is tempting

Vivi wrote: "Yup, the prohibited is tempting"

Forbidden fruits are always the tastiest.

♥Jenny♥ wrote: "Vivi wrote: "Yup, the prohibited is tempting"

Forbidden fruits are always the tastiest. "

(i started laughing really hard)

Ambizzle wrote: "♥Jenny♥ wrote: "Vivi wrote: "Yup, the prohibited is tempting"

Forbidden fruits are always the tastiest. "

(i started laughing really hard)"

: )

That's funny

this topic died 10 days ago, ashes to ashes :(

Hehe, poor topic.

yeah, it's alive now though

Yes, you resurrected it, you necromancer. :D

i had never heard that word before, i had to look it up :)

Conjuration of the spirits of the dead for purposes of magically revealing the future or influencing the course of events.

You conjured up the spirit of this topic, to influence a course of events that would lead us to talk, in this dead topic.

i noticed you define many words and stuff

I don't do it often, just once or twice when people mention that they don't know what I mean.

You know what? Banning books is idiotic. I mean, dyk that they banned Anne Frank's Diary because it was a "downer?" Or ooh, get a kick out of this one: They banned a puberty book. Why? BECAUSE THEY HAVE INAPROPRIATE PICTURES!!! AND THEY TALK ABOUT PUBERTY!!!! OMG!!!! *fumes now* I mean, people are banning books for stupid reasons and parents feel like heroes after they've banned books. My god you're not a hero if you banned books! I mean, I understand if you want to protect your children and all but there are better ways of protecting your child than banning books. I believe in free speech and banning books is not at all free speech sorry you parents who think you're doing good for every child in the whole world if you think banned books are APROPRIATE!!!!

Sorry. I should control my language. I get extremely mad when I see books taken off the library shelf but still reminding myself that ALA created Banned Books Week when they are still banning books today. D:<

Breath BookGeek

You're language isnt bad

No I hate it when they ban books. The puberty book thing is funny... xD

I mean, I seriously thought they were going to ban all the puberty books in the world after I heard this. I own the book too, honestly, it's NOT THAT BAD!!!

which book? It's a puberty book they're supposed to be like that

Ambizzle wrote: "which book? It's a puberty book they're supposed to be like that"

Umm... one sec...

Can't find the title. :(

And I know right? Puberty books aren't puberty books if they aren't like that!

lol

I can't believe they banned a puberty book I mean what were they thinking they were accomplishing. By banning that book millions of kids might not know about how things work? Now the pregger teens will increase!

XD

They already have sex ed in schools anyways they're going to know soon...

parents are gonna want to ban that too

Hey, if they want their teens to have a toaster in the oven I don't care! Let them suffer!

Some of my catholic friends don't take sex ed. though.... That is not a fun class. Shudder

my health class didn't talk much about that

haha! You have no idea what someone said... I prefer not to say it...

But I'm really pissed because they Banned Anne Frank because it was DEPRESSING!!!! SERIOUSLY PARENTS???? ARE U ANTI-SEMITES OR WHAT????

i dont think there are any parents in this group, nobody can answer that, anyone here have a kid?

Steph does but she's cool

Vivi wrote: "my health class didn't talk much about that"

Oh mine did

Vivi wrote: "parents are gonna want to ban that too"

They don't try to ban it so often, because Sex Ed is optional. Any parent can opt their child out if they want. Which is much easier to do then banning.

♥BookGeek♥ wrote: "Hey, if they want their teens to have a toaster in the oven I don't care!"

I don't think that's the motivation though. I think that they believe that the images give them ideas. And the parents would rather children be ignorant, than to have those "ideas".

Personally, when a book is banned I'm always interested. Now I want to read all sorts of banned books!

Grrr Melzz why do you have to be so rational about everything!

My public library has a read the banned books campaign going on

♥BookGeek♥ wrote: "But I'm really pissed because they Banned Anne Frank because it was DEPRESSING!"

Yeah, that's ridiculous. Luckily, it's probably only a local ban. A worldwide ban would be too hard to attempt with Anne Frank.

♥BookGeek♥ wrote: "Personally, when a book is banned I'm always interested. Now I want to read all sorts of banned books!"

Yeah, there are some lists out there that focus on banned books. A lot of people make it their mission to read many of them.

Ambizzle wrote: "Grrr Melzz why do you have to be so rational about everything!"

Because if I weren't, I'd be as irrational as a headless chicken.

Okay then I found a happy medium....

X)

sometimes when you cut off a chicken's head, it still runs around headless for a few seconds

Exactly! That would be me without my rationality.