![]() Of the 311 reported challenges, 80% of them included ‘diverse’ material. ![]() If we include the estimated 85% of unreported challenges, the number increases to roughly 575 books challenged in one year. According to the American Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom and Public Information Offices “up to 85% of book challenges receive no media attention and remain unreported.” 2014 saw 311 challenges reported. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian: A Defenseīooks, particularly those written for young adults, are challenged regularly and banned with frequency in the United States. ![]() I chose The Absolutely True Diary of A Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. ![]() For a class on collections management in the Fall semester, Mary Grace Flaherty asked us to select a banned book to evaluate for it’s retention or elimination from a collection. ![]()
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