Books are meant to challenge us, to make us feel and to help us grow.
Read with your children and share books with your nieces and nephews. Spend an afternoon immersed in a classic novel. Get frustrated with a how-to book or pick up an autobiography and read about the absurdity of someone else’s life.But whatever you do, don’t ban books. Don’t perpetuate the thing that we know does the greatest harm — ”Fahrenheit 451,” “Brave New World,” “1984.″
In 2008, I compiled a list of the top 50 books I believed every young person should read before they graduate high school. Over the years, many of the books on this list have been banned at one time or another. In honor of this year’s Banned Book Week, Oct. 1-7, let me re-share that list with you. My only oversight: “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison didn’t make the cut.
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