Banned Book Week Research Paper

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Banned book week What you think about books being banned in a free country?while you're pondering about books being banned lots of books across the US have been banned for so many reasons like sexually explicit ,unsuited for certain age groups,drugs ,alcohol ,smoking ,homosexuality and these are mostly banned in public school and libraries. Thanks to American library association for defending the writers to promote the freedom of writing and expressing them selfs in their books. The perks of being a wallflower by Stephen chbosky. This books is about a teenage boy names charlie who writes letters to an unknown person they are random letters about charlie's life and what he is facing in real life. He describes a lot of thing now a days lots

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