Young Writers discussion

The Giver.
Harry Potter.
Where’s Waldo.
Animal Farm.
Goosebumps.
Junie B. Jones.
Captain Underpants.
One Fat Summer.
Bridge to Terabithia.
What do these have in common?
They’re all good books (yes, even #7 has some credit), yet they’ve all been banned at some point.
‘Offensive’ to other religions because of talking pigs?
Bathroom humor?
The author has the same name as some Marxist or something(but the two have nothing else in common as far as I can see)?
Oh my, these are perfect reasons to deprive children of literature! *eye roll*
Let’s not Fahrenheit 451 our country. You can advise people against reading those atrocious (yeah, sure) books, but don’t ban them. PLEASE. Because even if you don’t like them, someone somewhere will.

No no definitely ban books. I don't want anybody reading gross filth by a communist. That's bad for society.

I'm not very sure this is the folder you should post this in, but I dunno... (Unless you're writing a book about this.)
Anyway I'll just say stuff about banning books.
Book should never be banned, because if we do agree to ban books, then almost every book would be banned because everyone has different views on books. Nothing should be banned, if you don't want your children reading 'Captain Underpants' or 'Bridge to Terabithia' don't let them, there is no need to ban any book and banning books just makes more people read them, so there's really no point in that. Even the dictionary has been challenged! I mean really? The dictionary?

Animal Farm was banned? It's required reading at my school.

@Lucia - I second what Grace said since I'm kind of confused about this topic. Did you just want to get that out there, or is this supposed to be a discussion? Because if it's the latter, it should probably be moved to a different folder ...

@Maniac - Well, when something is referred to as a "banned book" that doesn't mean it's been banned everywhere. It just means that schools commonly ban students from reading it. I also had to read Animal Farm for school ... My friends and I made a movie adaptation with Beanie Babies. Fun times.

Maniac the Brainiac *Thing 7* wrote: "Animal Farm was banned? It's required reading at my school."

a lot of books that were once banned/challenged are now considered required reading. like huck finn, catcher in the rye, to kill a mockingbird, the great gatsby, 1984, lord of the flies, brave new world...

the thought was that it was necessary to ban books with so-called dangerous ideas in them. anything that was controversial. and while people may have called others that, it's one thing out-loud (you barely realize it) and it's another thing to see it in books.