Book of Job

The American Library Association created a list of books that are prohibited to read in schools. Due to violence and “mature” content, parents challenge books because they don’t find them very comely for their children to read; the parents believe the books will sully their child’s mind. The list of banned and challenged books includes the story of “Grendel” and The Alice Series. “Grendel” by John C. Gardner tells the 8th century epic of Beowulf from Grendel’s point of view. The story tells of…

Books are banned by schools/ associations. One specific book that I have read is We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier. Books can be banned for nine common reasons these are racial issues, encouragement of damaging life’s, blasphemous, dialogue, sexual situations or dialogue, violence/ negativity, presence of witchcraft, religious afflictions, political bias, and age inappropriate. There are many more reasons in which books can be banned for, my book is banned for vandalism, revenge, and alcoholism…

and scripted dialogues are taking over the minds of the masses. Books have slowly evolved into work, not pleasure. It is hard to find children who spend their time reading a Dr. Seuss book rather than playing Flappy Birds on an iPad. People used to line up to snatch a newly released novel; now people wait in line to watch the next Fast and Furious movie. As other forms of media become more and more popular, the importance and use of books are becoming less and less significant. The saying…

of like parents. I chose to respond to this reading journal entry for very much the same reasons Amber Hemp picked this book and why Brody wrote it. I feel a need to hear from the perspective of a parent who’s child struggles with disabilities. Amber focuses her description of the book on ways it benefits educators. She offers three strong reasons for educators to read this book. The first is that teachers can at times question a parents decision regarding a child with…

you rarely see a person with a book; however, one book series are still in the hand of all age groups today. These- must- read books are the Harry Potter series. It all began with the first novel, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Written by the talented J. K. Rowling in 1997, her first book won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, which is a prize given to British Children Books that ran from 1985 to 2007. Her first book sold 107 million worldwide, making the book in the hands of every child.…

Row after row of beautifully lined up books, all in perfect order. The air hung with mugginess as no one knows when the last time the windows were opened. With every step the floor screeched in protest and erupted with dust. Cobwebs hung like great sheets of hair from an ancient hag, white, dirty and tangled from the high windows and roof. Aria Hale pushed up her thick glasses, magnifying her emerald green eyes. She tightened her short, chocolate coloured ponytail, getting ready for the hunt.…

In this book there are two hundred and eight pages. This book, that is sitting next to me at the time of writing this, took me a couple of hours to read probably about two hours maybe a bit more not that much time compared to some books that I’ve read, might have dragged those out or just didn’t buckle down and start reading like I did with this book. This book was about a Japanese samurai who had to help someone who didn’t realize their purpose and with that in mind I learned that sometimes…

The article that ends the banned books debate. Does one parent have authority over what your child can read? Books help teach students and very often those same books are one's being banned. Students will have exposure to sensitive content in the real world. Students learn morals, life lessons and hardship in many books.Students need books for knowledge, knowledge about adversity, knowledge about morals and hardship, also to teach students. Students will have exposure to the…

Books Parker, D. (2017). ABC’s for the little g’s. Dunedin, FL: LGGS, LLC,. David Parker, designer illustration for Complex, wanted to create a book to reach kids at their level. Parker teaches the alphabet and a series of words by using designer labels. Such as D is for Dolce. Parker’s inspiration came from the growing trends he’s seen from children in the media. Parker believes that with the success of kid actors, such like the Stranger Things cast, parents will be even more inclined to…

For my independent reading I choose the book, Pretties by Scott Westerfeld. This is the second book from the series called, Uglies. I read Uglies during my eighth grade year and I loved me. It was a very intriguing story and I knew that if I had to do another independent reading, I would select the second book and I did. The first book mainly focused on how life was like being an “Ugly” and the anticipation of teens turning 16 having the options of doing an operation to be pretty and get to live…