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Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson, winner of a Newbery award, has been removed from classrooms and libraries due to "profanity, disrespect of adults, and an elaborate fantasy world that might lead to confusion."
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Rediculous!
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It's sad, but it's not the only great book banned... The Giver is another......
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Bridge to Terabithia has been banned over and over again since it was first published.
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Who the heck thinks kids will be confused? Do they think students will be like "oh my gosh, do i really live in a magical fairy world??????"
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lol! they probly made that up as a excuse due to "disrespect of adults".
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THAT IS TOTAL BS!!!!!!!!!!!! What the heck is there to be confusion about? I mean, they didn't ban harry potter did they? and that is more fantasy than this book!!!!!!
And I don't particularily recall disrespect to adults that much. I am sure I have read a ton of books that are much more disrespectful!!!! And profanity?!?!?! What are they talking about? I don't think that it has any more than normal!
They may as well say that they are getting rid of the book so that they can tell kids what to think, which is probably much closer to the truth than all this crap that they are dishing out for excuses!
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you have a good point thats toalltaly true.
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That's crazy!! How will kids be confused? I can think of many other books that are way more confusing than that. And profanity- that's just an excuse. I see no reason to ban this book.
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We live in a society where anyone could want any book banned for any reason. Recently, a local religious zealot on the Washington County (VA) School Board tried unsucessfully to have Lee Smith's FAIR AND TENDER LADIES removed from classrooms because of TWO PARAGRAPHS which esentially say the main character lost her virginity. This was not a required book but an option for high school students to read for book reports. I think it is stupid to ban a book because a character lost something that most of the people reading it lost before they could learn to read!
If you want to ban a book that historically, socially, and morally corrupts human society then let me suggest banning THE BIBLE. If you look at history though the ages you can see how it has been used as the excuse, justification, and moral compass for the horrible things that we as humans have done throughout time.
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The word "Bitching" is used in the first paragraph at the beginning of the book. That is what they are calling profanity.
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do these schools want to ban 1984 by George Orwell as well? In some copies, I think they got rid of the profanity....
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i agree that's just wrong it is a good book and how bad good it be if they made a children's movie about it
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This book being BANNED? It's not one of my favorite books, but that's absolutely ridiculous. I think that it has a good message--that children have a right to escape sometimes from the rest of the world and from the control of adults. Jess and Leslie are trying to escape from the kind of adults that would ban books like this!
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I completely agree with banning the bible. Currently reading GOD is not GREAT... :)
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Wait, the Giver was banned too?! You've got to be joking! Our society is scary....scary I tell you. FREE CHOICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Bridge to Terebithia is a great book... It is just showing what you can do with your imagination... and currently people in this world are finding their imaginations suffocated... We need the books that will help us use are immaginations in the best way possible... banning that book is dumb...
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I guess I didn't the memo on this because I read it with my 3rd grade class this year. I think it has the word "damn" a few times, but we talked about how the author used it in the context of the story and I didn't have any problems. Who banned it and where?
Also, I'm pretty sure one of the 5th grade teachers at my school uses The Giver.
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Why would anybody EVER ban Bridge To Terabithia or The Giver?????!!! They're so good!!! This is outrageous.
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This is silly. Books should not be "banned"; people should be able to read as they like, and what they choose is their choice with resulting consequences.. oh and I think those who want to ban the Bible need to take a real good look at what our country was founded on.... yeah those basics: the Constitutional Convention, the Mayflower Compact, the first state constitution (Connecticut), and the Declaration of Independence even, all these used the Word of God to found our country.. Enough said.
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I totally agree with you, Christina. A store I frequent sells various items that sums up my thoughts on banning anything: "Censorship- The assasination of an idea." The thing is, banning books does no one any good because there is no such thing as a perfect understanding of literature. Also, it is much simpler to avoid reading the book and avoid having whoever read the book. Besides, people censor things for weird reason, for example, someone forbade their children from reading The BFG because it had characters cooking bacon, which went against their vegetarianism.
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I believe in a bumper sticker I have on my wall in the library any book worth banning is a book worth reading. People will try to ban anything. And yes that does include Harry Potter. I remember seeing a picture of a church group burning Harry Potter. Don't know what they thought they accomplished. I hate to say it as a German America but, burn books and I think Nazis.
There is hope though. I also remeber reading an editoral by an African-American man who finally read the Adventures of Huckeleberry Finn. He was amazed at the power of the book and the crazinesss of the banners who had kept him away from the book. Mark Twain though does have the ability to get hated by both the right and the left.
Some authors though do take it as a badge of honor to be banned. Then you know you have a hit a nerve and isn't that what writing is suppose to do. Get us out of our comfort zone and think out of our boxes. This is way I oppose banning. Books I don't like I just don't bother with. All right I might argure a bit but, no banning.
Those I put on my worst book list where for first bad writing style then content. I will also add that my selection is my opinion and people are free to disagree. Hey, I could be wrong wouldn't be the first time.
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Interesting which books people think should be banned. The power of helping students understand choices, consequences, decision making, and many others is very real when utilizing both Bridge to Terabithia, The Giver, and yes even The Bible.
So many people are so set on their own point of view and definition of choice they forget to allow others to make choices and then live with or experience the consequences of their choices. As a school teacher, I prefer to have my students read about tragedies and how to evaluate decision they make rather than act out some of the things and having the lessons be much more permanant.
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The previous poster was correct, when they try to suppress books they are really trying to control how we think. Books are powerful, they cause us to ponder, to wonder, to think in ways we might not have. In fact, books can encourage behaviours in ways that are either negative or positive. What I do not want, what I will not accept is anyone telling me what I may or may not read. I've never done it, but hearing that some raving lunatic has tried to ban a book from a school library makes me want to get copies from used books stores and pass them out the the kids at the school. I have read books that offended me, books that grossed me out (In Praise of the Stepmother, ugh, ugh, ugh.) but that doesn't mean they should be banned.
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I couldn't believe this book was banned. I read it with my (then 7 year old) in January. He enjoyed it the entire time and it allowed for a lot of discussion. I agree that any banned book is a book worth reading.
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