Banned Books Week brings censorship to forefront – Daily Republic

By Susan Winlow

The children’s book series “Captain Underpants” and John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” have something in common. So do the teen favorite “The Hunger Games” and “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley – a book written almost 100 years ago.

All four are included on the banned or challenged book list, which means that it’s been outright banned in a library or school or it’s been challenged by a person or group that made viable attempts to remove the book from a curriculum or library because of a variety of things such as sexual explicitness, profanity or being unsuited for a particular age group.

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