The Book Show

Banned Books: A Girls Life Online. Everyone loves to read a good book once in awhile. Some people may tell you they hate to read, but chances are they're lying. but what if some of our favourite books gets banned? some books just aren't suitable for stores to sell. I'll go over a book called A Girls Life Online, And show you why some of these book don't need to be read. So lets get to it! This Story takes place in Connecticut, with little Katherine Tarbox as the main character.…

read the diary. Although some think that The Diary of Anne Frank is boring and should not be read, students should read this book because it is a first hand account of the Holocaust, it shows what the Jewish people had to go through to survive, and students can relate to the author. Students should definitely read this book. One reason why students should read this book is because it is a first hand account of the Holocaust. Secondary…

Reading a book can often be taken for granted, yet not everybody in Africa can have this privilege. Often times Children and adults go without books for most of their life. Yet the organization Books for Africa can change that. They have a simple goal, and it is to end the book famine in Africa. They’ve decided to help do this by collecting sorting the shipping the books to Africa. They help kids who can’t attend school at least get to read and learn. They give many types of books like French,…

High Schools around the world are what to remove the book speak for their library's.Why you might ask well in the book speak their is rape in the book speak.Their is also use of drugs and alcohol in the book speak. Read this and it might change how you think of the book speak. The book Speak show´s that rape is not just one thing.In the book the main character is raped, but she was not yelling,screaming or kicking. She did not say anything she just sat. Most people think rape has to do…

I’m going to talk about books. Banned and Challenged books. These are all books that have been banned or Challenged to be banned by schools and libraries across the country. These books have been accused of Ruining younger audiences minds with unsavory ideas and bad language. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. frequent use of a bad term for African-Americans, and the bad view of the pre war South. William Shakespeare. He’s got suicide, and homicide in his plays. How about Romeo and…

their own life, it is beneficial to them to be able to see their favorite characters face the same problems. Some teens enjoy being able to find those answers in books, Patricia McCormick, young adult author of books such as Never Fall Down and Cut, agrees that teens enjoy problem-solving and states “Part of the reason they want to read books about homophobia or trafficking or alcoholism or teen pregnancy or whatever…is because they are curious about finding solutions.”(Is Current). Teenagers…

Essay #2 Censorship and Banned Books A person that challenges a book so it will get banned is foolish, ignorant ,and absurd. The American Library Association defines a Challenge to literature as an attempt by a person or a group of people to have literature restricted or removed from a public library or a school curriculum . Challenging a book is making a book more famous, because people now become curious and wonder why it's being challenged. People that want a book banned and decide to…

“There is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything then of a book!” (Austen; 47). The world contains many books for our enjoyment, however the best of those books are most often classics. Not any book can become a classic, it needs specific characteristics and traits. However, Pride and Prejudice, a great story known to all, became a classic because it contains those very same characteristics. Pride and Prejudice has universal themes that can transcend place and time and…

The lion and the mouse by Jerry Pinkney is one of my favorite picture books by any author. I remember seeing the cover of the book when I was at the library looking for a new book to show the class where I was an assistant teacher and it was my first time for story time. The main point of this story was how the lion had the choice of either eating the mouse or letting him go free. The mouse small in size but there is much he can do for him in return. At first I thought the children might not be…

the Renaissance in England and Italy? Based on the cookbooks, letters, and books of the time period, the importance of food is illustrated through the countless amounts of discussion about the topic and the emphasis placed on cooks of royalty or people like the pope. One of the most popular cookbooks from the Renaissance is the Opera dell’arte del cucinare, written by Bartolomeo Scappi in 1570. At the beginning of the book, is not only a section dedicated to introducing the author, but a large…