[aisle] [External Message From Outside of Central 301] Re: Contemporary Banned Books Week with Diversity for Middle School

[Kathy McCoy]

I thought I had read something recently about Elizabeth Acevedo's *Poet X*
being banned in some communities.  This was not it - but also tells of it.
https://aldianews.com/articles/culture/literature/education-parents-try-censor-poet-x-assault-christianity/61043

I found this article about another of her books being censored by a
community.
  https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=20536

Mrs. Kathy McCoy
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On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 2:03 PM Christine Wilson via AISLE <
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> I looked at the 100-most banned list on the ALA site, and the only one
> that jumped out at me was *The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time
> Indian *by Sherman Alexie. Granted, North American Native Americans
> aren't Hispanic, but they are related to the Aztec and Maya...
>
> *Bless Me, Ultima* by Rudolfo Anaya, and *The House on Mango Street* by
> Sandra Cisneros are rated in Titlewave as adult - I don't know where you
> would draw the line for your middle schoolers!
>
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 11:57 AM Holtz, Alan C. (BMS) via AISLE <
> aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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>> Good morning hive-mind,
>>
>>
>>
>> This is an interesting one. We just finished celebrating *Banned Books
>> Week* with a few of our classes. When we finished up, we evaluated how
>> we did. One of the issues was we really didn’t have a book with Hispanic
>> characters that was challenged or banned.
>>
>>
>>
>> What I’m looking for is middle school appropriate example of challenged
>> books that mirror our Hispanic students. Oh, and also, not too out of date…
>>
>>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>>
>>
>> Alan, Librarian serving Brooks Middle School
>>
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