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The American Library Association has released its annual list of most challenged books, and it includes titles both recent ( The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian , the Twilight series) and classic ( Brave New World ). Topping the 2010 list is And Tango Makes Three , a children's book about a same-sex penguin couple and its adopted baby. Every year, the ALA ranks the most challenged books in the country, with "challenge" defined as "a formal, written complaint filed with a library or school requesting that a book or other material be restricted or removed because of its content or appropriateness." The ALA received 348 challenges last year. Here are the 10 most challenged books of 2010: <p style="text-align:right;color:#A8A8A8"></p>
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2012 Rainbow Book List Announced « Rainbow Book List
The 2011-2012 committee of the Rainbow Project, a joint task force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table and the Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Queer Round Table of the American Library Association proudly present our 2012 Rainbow Book List. Titles appearing in bold are selected as part of the Top 10 titles for this year’s list. A fully annotated list that has been sorted into age ranges will be posted in the forthcoming weeks.Kindle
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She does not shed tears, but light... Books are good. I love books, actually, they're close to breathing on my scale. But out of the, say, a zillion books published each year, stamped with ink and piled accordingly in bookstores across our nation...how many are life changing?
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