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Education Resource Area: Challenged/Banned
Located in the Salem State University library (2nd floor). ERA provides resources and services to support education programs at Salem State University. The collection includes curriculum, lesson planning, assessment, educational research books and kits.
ERA Reference Book.
In this book, Scales gives librarians the information and guidance they need to defend challenged books with an informed response while ensuring access to young book lovers.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
ISBN: 9781451696202
Publication Date: 2012-08-14
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
ISBN: 0399238611
Publication Date: 2004-03-30
Into the River by Ted Dawe
ISBN: 9781943818198
Publication Date: 2016-06-14
King and King by Linda de Haan (Illustrator); Stern Nijland (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1582460612
Publication Date: 2003-03-01
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
ISBN: 0618329706
Publication Date: 2005-04-04
Just One Day by Gayle Forman
ISBN: 9780525425915
Publication Date: 2013-01-08
The Doll's House by Neil Gaiman; K. C. Carlson (Editor); Clive Barker (Contribution by); Mike Dringenberg (Illustrator); Michael Zulli (Illustrator); Malcolm Jones (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0930289595
Publication Date: 1991-09-01
Looking for Alaska by John Green
ISBN: 9780525428022
Publication Date: 2015-01-13
Tintin in America by Hergé
ISBN: 0316358525
Publication Date: 1979-11-30
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
ISBN: 0385509456
Publication Date: 2003-06-17
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
ISBN: 9781594631931
Publication Date: 2013-03-05
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I Am Jazz by Jessica Herthel; Jazz Jennings; Shelagh McNicholas (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780803741072
Publication Date: 2014-09-04
Nasreen's Secret School by Jeanette Winter (Illustrator)
The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly.
Where the Wild Things Are is fifty years old Let the wild rumpus with Max and all the wild things continue as this classic comes to life as never before with new reproductions of Maurice Sendak's artwork.
Retells the segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which George, the Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years and brings peace and joy to the land.
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig (Illustrator)
Believing that her French guardian is about to abandon her to an orphanage in the city, ten-year-old Lucky runs away from her small town with her beloved dog by her side in order to trek across the Mojave Desert in this Newbery Medal-winning novel from Susan Patron.
It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him:1. Once again Christopher Paul Curtis, author of the award-winning novel The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963, takes readers on a heartwarming and unforgettable journey.
Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.
The Bluest Eye is one of Toni Morrison s most powerful novels. The Nobel Laureate s debut is the story of Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl who prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America.
A sweeping story of family, love, and friendship told against the devastating backdrop of the history of Afghanistan over the last thirty years, The Kite Runner is an unusual and powerful novel that has become a beloved, one-of-a-kind classic.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
In the summer of June of 1991, I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother that loved me. I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen. On August 26, 2009, I took my name back. My name is Jaycee Lee Dugard. I don't think of myself as a victim, I simply survived an intolerable situation. "A Stolen Life "is my story--in my own words, in my own way, exactly as I remember it.
Callie loves theater. And while she would totally try out for her middle school's production of 'Moon Over Mississippi', she's a terrible singer. Instead she's the set designer for the stage crew and this year she's determined to create a set worthy of Broadway on a middle-school budget.