The Story
New in Paperback! This collection of sixtythree essays provides assistance to the growing number of students, teachers, librarians, and parents who find themselves confronting a censorship situation. The contributors are both authorsof fiction, drama, and poetry for adults, children, and adolescentsand teachers of literature, writing about the books that are most frequently challenged in schools and libraries.Part I provides six authors' perspectives on censorship by omission and commission. Part II provides responses and defenses of individual books. Paperback edition available May 2001.
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New in Paperback! This collection of sixtythree essays provides assistance to the growing number of students, teachers, librarians, and parents who find themselves confronting a censorship situation. The contributors are both authorsof fiction, drama, and poetry for adults, children, and adolescentsand teachers of literature, writing about the books that are most frequently challenged in schools and libraries.Part I provides six authors' perspectives on censorship by omission and commission. Part II provides responses and defenses of individual books. Paperback edition available May 2001.
