http://www.freedomreaders.com Fighting For Your Right To Read!!! Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:28:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tennessee online retailer Abunga is offering a new service to it's customers. Censorship. When enough visitors to the site complain about a particular book, Abunga discontinues sales of the volume and removes it from it's inventory. This has generated interests from several religious groups who would like to have a ... http://www.freedomreaders.com/?p=22 In close 3-2 decision, the Nampa Public library Board voted to remove the The New Joy of Sex and The Joy of Gay Sex from library shelves. Supporting board members cited indecent material for children as the chief factor in their decision making. This deliberations were instigated by library patron ... http://www.freedomreaders.com/?p=21 Larry Knapp, a Nampa businessman, is withholding his $10,000 donation to the public library pending the boards decision regarding the ban of two sex manuals. This action was in support of Randy Jackson who is making his second attempt to have the manuals, The New Joy of Sex and The ... http://www.freedomreaders.com/?p=20 Dr. Kristen Ruth Bratt, Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Penn State Altoona, was one of four recipients of the 2008 Public Scholarship Course Development Grants. Dr. Bratt received the grant for her project "Defending the Rights of American Children: Banned Book Defense Essays". As part of the project pre-service teachers ... http://www.freedomreaders.com/?p=19 The Tuscaloosa County School Board has come to a decision on whether or not to ban the controversial young adult novel 'Sandpiper'. The book, which revolves around themes of young sexuality, first came to the attention of the board when 10th grader Lysa Harding form Brockwood High School refused to ... http://www.freedomreaders.com/?p=18 Hello faithful readers. As you may have noticed, the site was in various states of disarray for the last month. This was due to a hosting issue that has now been resolved. The site has now been restored, save for the original publish dates of the articles in our RSS ... http://www.freedomreaders.com/?p=17 Cyndi Treiber, a military om, has been protesting with other parents against a book that is part of the optional 2nd and 3rd grade reading program at the Magruder Elementary School library in York County, VA.  The disapproval stems from a portion of the book, addressing war, soldiers, and military ... http://www.freedomreaders.com/?p=16 After an intense outrcry from inmates, members of congress and religious groups the Bureu of Prisons repealed it’s decision to remove all but 150 ‘acceptable’ religious texts from the nations prisons. All religious materials that have been removed will be returned and most texts that were to be removed will ... http://www.freedomreaders.com/?p=15 The most challenged book in school libraries this last year did not include violence, language or adult situations. It included penguins. “And Tango Makes Three” is the story of two male penguins who help a penguin couple who is having trouble incubating their own eggs. The book is based on a ... http://www.freedomreaders.com/?p=14 The board of the Jackson-George Regional Library System which has been deliberating the removal of the book “Happy Endings: The Tales of a Meaty-Breasted Zilch” has come to a decision. The board voted to keep the book on library shelves saying that “If we order a book, we feel like ... http://www.freedomreaders.com/?p=13