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Intellectual freedom manual by American Library Association
Call Number: REF Z711.4 .I57 2006
ISBN: 9780838935613
Publication Date: 2006
What Johnny shouldn't read : textbook censorship in America by DelFattore, Joan
Call Number: LB3045.7 .D45 1992
ISBN: 9780300057096
Publication Date: 1992
100 banned books : censorship histories of world literature by Karolides, Nicholas J.; Bald, Margaret; Sova, Dawn B.
Call Number: REF Z658.U5 K35 1999
ISBN: 9780816040599
Publication Date: 1999
Book banning by Lankford, Ronald D.
Call Number: Z657 .B73 2008
ISBN: 0737737840
Publication Date: 2008

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Banned Book Week
Info from the ALA - American Library Association!
National Coalition Against Censorship
The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) is an alliance of organizations dedicated to the protection of intellectual freedom and fighting censorship.
Frequently Banned Children's Books
This is a list of banned children’s books on the ALA site.
The Freedom to Read
This is the American Library Association’s (ALA) Freedom to Read Statement.
When Books Burn
On May 10, 1933, university students in 34 university towns across Germany burned over 25,000 books.

The New Oxford Annotated Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments
Call Number: Miami Dade (BS191.5.A1 1994 .N49 )
ISBN: 0195283481
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky by Chbosky, Stephen
Call Number: Miami Dade/Hialeah Popular Books ([POPB] PERKS )
ISBN: 0671027344
Publication Date: 1999
Twilight by Meyer, Stephenie
Call Number: Miami Dade/Wolfson Leisure Book Collection ([MCN] MEYER )
ISBN: 9780316033411
Publication Date: 2005
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov by Nabokov, Vladimir
Call Number: Miami Dade (PS3527.A15 L6 )
ISBN: 0613706250
Publication Date: 1955
1984 George Orwell by Orwell, George
Call Number: Miami Dade(PR6029.R8 N49 )
ISBN: 0452284236
Publication Date: 1949
And Tango Makes Three Peter Parnell by Parnell, Peter
Call Number: Miami Dade/InterAmerican Children's Collection (PZ10.3.R414 Tan 2005 )
ISBN: 0689878451
Publication Date: 2005
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by Shakespeare, William
Call Number: Miami Dade (PR2753 .C6 )
ISBN: 0679642951
Publication Date: 1623

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Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury, Ray
Call Number: Miami Dade PS3503.R167 F3 1996
ISBN: 0345410017
Publication Date: 1953
The Chocolate War Robert Cormier by Cormier, Robert
Call Number: MiamiDade (PZ7 .C81634 1986 )
ISBN: 0375829873
Publication Date: 1974
Lady Chatterley's Lover by Lawrence, D. H.
Call Number: Miami Dade (PR6023.A93 L2 )
ISBN: 193425519X
Publication Date: 1928
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee by Lee, Harper
Call Number: Miami Dade (PS3562.E353 T6 )
ISBN: 0061120081
Publication Date: 1961
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by Rowling, J. K.
Call Number: Miami Dade (PZ7.R79835 Har )
ISBN: 043936213X
Publication Date: 1997
The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger, J. D.
Call Number: Miami Dade (PS3537.A426 C3 1951 )
ISBN: 0316769533
Publication Date: 1951
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain by Twain, Mark
Call Number: Miami Dade(PS1305 .A1 )
ISBN: 1613821050
Publication Date: 1884