Haldar, Raj
Summary: This is a book about dinosaurs. No it's not. Dinosaurs are not allowed. Oh. This is now a book about avocados! Sorry. We deleted those too. FINE. This book is about--nope! Forbidden! Maybe you shouldn't even try reading this book...But what could possibly be inside? Discover just what can happen when ideas are erased instead of expressed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks eXplore 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE HALKing, A. S. (Amy Sarig)
Summary: When sixth-grader Mac discovers several words of his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic are blacked out he is outraged, so he, his friends, and his eccentric family set out to do something about the censorship imposed by one teacher and the school board.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2022
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction KingLevithan, David
Summary: "When Donovan left his copy of The Adventurers on the kitchen counter, he didn't think his mom would read it--much less have a problem with it. It's just an adventure novel about two characters trying to stop an evil genius...right? But soon the entire town is freaking out about whether the book's main characters are gay, Donovan's mom is trying to get the book removed from the school...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEVFforde, Jasper.
Summary: "Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection in a time-altered Great Britain in which messing with the classics is a punishable offense, sets out to apprehend a criminal who is murdering characters from works of literature and has chosen Jane Eyre as his next victim."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS FFOLabuskes, Brianna
Summary: Set against the backdrop of World War II, this unforgettable novel, inspired by the true story of the Council of Books in Wartime, follows three women whose fates become intertwined by their belief in the power and goodness in the written word to triumphover the very darkest moments of war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction LabuskesGrabenstein, Chris
Summary: "Mr. Lemoncello has invited teams from all across America to compete in the first ever LIBRARY OLYMPICS...but someone is trying to censor what the kids are reading"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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Summary: "Mr. Lemoncello has invited teams from all across America to compete in the first ever Library Olympics ... but someone is trying to censor what the kids are reading"--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library, an imprint of the Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD GRABradbury, Ray
Summary: In Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires but start them--to burn books. It's a time when trivial information is valued and true knowledge perceived as dangerous and subversive. Guy Montag is a fireman with a wife who's goading him to work harder so they could afford another television set. When Montag befriends their neighbor Clarisse, whose love for...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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Summary: Fireman Guy Montag is a fireman whose job it is to start fires. And he loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn, along with the houses in which they were hidden. Then he meets a seventeen-year old girl who tells him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who tells him of a future where people can think. And Guy Montag knows what he has to do ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1991
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Summary: In Bradbury's futuristic novel, the knowledge gained from books is forbidden, and television replaces deep thought with vapid and menial information. Firefighter Guy Montag is assigned to locate, confiscate, and burn books. He is content with his life and job until he discovers the valuable knowledge found within books. Now, Guy must decide to either continue his stale existence or abscond with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: In a society in which books are outlawed, Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P BRARoberts, Gillian.
Summary: A book-burning minister is murdered in Philadelphia after trying to impose moral standards on a school library where his stepson was a pupil. Sleuth Amanda Pepper, a teacher at the school, suspects the killers were two boys, one of them the stepson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBWoods, Caroline (Caroline Courtney)
Summary: New York City, 1953. Louise Leithauser has filed some of the best pieces at her boyfriend Joe's brand new literary magazine, Downtown-- albeit under a male pseudonym. On the side she's writing a science fiction romance, The Lunar Housewife. When she overhears Joe and his business partner fighting about listening devices and death threats, Louise discovers that Downtown's strings are being...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: "1946. Fresh from the War in Europe, hack writer Jacob Heppleman discovers a changed world back home. The pulp magazines he used to write for are dying, replaced by a revolutionary new publishing racket: paperback novels. Although scorned by the critics, the tawdry drugstore novels sell like hotcakes - or so Jacob is assured. As "Jack Holly," Jacob finds success as the author of crime novels....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: "Paperback Jack is a brand new historical thriller from Grand Master Loren D. Estleman: lurid paperback covers promised sex and danger, but what went on behind the scenes was nearly as spicy as the adventures between the covers. 1946. Fresh from the War in Europe, hack writer Jacob Heppleman discovers a changed world back home. The pulp magazines he used to write for are dying, replaced by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: Mr. Lemoncello has invited teams from all across America to compete in the first ever LIBRARY OLYMPICS...but someone is trying to censor what the kids are reading.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2017
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Summary: "Hikaru's big brother is working for the enemy, and he wants to reunited with Hikaru. Meanwhile, someone is posting negative reviews on the library's website, and Kasahara intends to find out who. Later, personal issues are set aside when the Library Forces find out about a book burning on their home turf!" -- p. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2012