Banning Books

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Why are Books banned?
Why are books banned? There are many reasons why books are banned. For instance Language or racial issues. Violence or negativity even religious views or opinions in the book. In the Freedom Writers Diary all of these occur. I believe the Freedom Writers Diary should be banned in school. A few reasons why I think that this should be banned. Is because there is a lot of violence between each other. And a lot of bad language between race and also gangs.
The freedom writes is a good book. But I do see why they banned this particular book. Especially for the age group that they banned the book in. The age group that they banned this book in is Fresh men and lower I believe that you shouldn’t read this book. But I do believe

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