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Monday, November 13, 2017

Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen

Have you read any banned books lately? Share your insights on this classic title from young adult author Gary Paulsen.

posted by Llibre/Moxley, librarians @ 9:51 AM

1 Comments:

At Mon Nov 20, 08:58:00 AM 2017, Anonymous Davis C. said...

This noval appeals to an adolescent audience because it is very mature and talks about things that adults would understand. This piece of writing has a lot to do with slavery and how slavery had an effect on the world back then. It also talks a lot about whipping and describes what a person looks like after they are whipped. Having whipping in this book makes this a more adult book and this is why it might be banned for younger kids. This would also confuse young kids because they wouldn’t understand slavery. Most parents would not want their kids knowing about that racial period at that young age. This might make parents mad that they have a book out like this for young kids to read and then the school could get in trouble. This book has a very good reason why it is a banned from checking it out, this book could not make sense to younger kids and could get them very confused and their parents mad.

 

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