Why Do Books Should Be Banned

Books are challenged and banned for many reasons. One book that has been challenged many times is This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki. Although it does have some mature themes, it should not be banned due to the fact that many adolescents go through, or have gone through, similar things in their lives and it can help them see that other people understand what they are going through. Also it talks about the taboo topics we don’t talk about in society, or which could be important to their lives.
This One Summer is the story of two girls, Rose age 12, and Windy age 11, going through life and finding that some things are more difficult to understand and more complex than they seem. Rose and Windy go to Awago Beach every summer. They start to develop and grow more than normal experiencing new things that they don’t quite understand, as well as having people in their lives going through emotions and difficulties. As Mariko Tamaki said in her interview with Mochimag.com “There’s a certain type of struggle involved in being a certain age, the idea of what’s real and what’s not, the idea of what’s authentic in your life, the things that people …show more content…
The banning and challenging of a book is typically decided by parents, school staff, and district officials. For a book to be challenged it has to be attempted to be removed or restricted. It is, again, based upon the objections or parents and school officials. Unlike a challenge a banning of a book is the removal of material that is getting challenged. Most of the time challenges and banning’s are motivated by the desire to protect the children from what people think may be inappropriate content, typically sexual or against a religion or sometimes because it promotes a certain religion. A substantial amount of time censorship or banning of books are inconspicuous, often imperceptible as well as blatant and overt, but none the less