Why Are Books Banned

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Why are books banned? There are any reasons why books are banned. For instance there a lot of trouble on books for racial backgrounds and language. And one of these books are the freedom writer diary. This book should be banned for lower age groups in schools for bad language, gangs, and violence. There a lot of books that’s on the banned list this is just one of multiple books banned. One reason why the freedom writers diary should be banned in schools is that there a lot of bad language in this book. There’s a lot of racial slurs in this book to not be able for anyone under high school level to read this. In middle schools kids should be able to read this but they would need their parents’ permission. It will teach the kids how good they

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