Freedom to Read Week: Banned and Challenged Books

Updated January 31, 2025
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The complete Persepolis
Satrapi, Marjane
Paper Book
Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up as a girl in Iran during the revolution has for twenty years been a classroom staple, a feminist manifesto, and one of the most popular and widely known graphic novels of all time. <...
Nineteen eighty-four
Orwell, George
Paper Book
Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens...
Thomas Jefferson
Evans, Robert C.
Ebook
Thomas Jefferson is best remembered as one of the founding fathers of the United States, the nation's third president, and as the celebrated author of the Declaration of Independence and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. Jefferson not only wrote voluminously himself but has also been the...
Essex County
Lemire, Jeff.
Paper Book
Read the beloved classic that inspired the CBC miniseries! New York Times BestsellingcartoonistJeff Lemirepays tribute to his roots withEssex County, an award-winning trilogy of graphic novels set in an imaginary version of his hometown, the eccentric farming community of...

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