Censored Books

By Lee Burress, Nicholas J. Karolides, John M. Kean

Book Overview

New in Paperback This collection of sixty-three essays provides assistance to the growing number of students, teachers, librarians, and parents who find themselves confronting a censorship situation. The contributors are both authors_of fiction, drama, and poetry for adults, children, and adolescents_and teachers of literature, writing about the books that are most frequently challenged in schools and libraries. Part I provides six authors' perspectives on censorship by omission and commission. Part II provides responses and defenses of individual books. Paperback edition available May 2001.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810826674
• ISBN13: 9780810826670
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 1.0" x 1.0"