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By vanrozenheim
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(USA) - This past week the American Library Association—“celebrated” isn’t quite the right word—observed Banned Books Week. The event is designed to raise public awareness of efforts by some individuals and groups to have certain books removed from library shelves. In 2006 the ALA received reports of 546 challenges to books in school and public libraries, objecting to depictions of violence, drugs, homosexuality, satanic content and offensive language. Usually the challenges are to books for young people, although there are occasional objections to adult books on school reading lists.
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