prohibited books

Shares the story of how John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath," published to much acclaim in April 1939, became the target of censors in Kern County, California, where the book was publicly burned and banned from schools and libraries.

Presents two of Alice Walker's short stories and part of "A Color Purple" with discussion on how they have been the subject of removal from tests, school libraries, and school curricula in the United States.

There is a groper in the library and Iku and Shibazaki go undercover to catch the pervert.

The federal government creates a committee to rid society of all books it deems unsuitable, libraries team with local governments to form military groups to defend themselves, and Iku, a girl who has joined the Library Forces, is nervous that her parents will find out about her dangerous mission during their visit to her library.

Someone on the team is manipulating Iku, and using her attraction to Dojo against her, and Iku's role in the book burning is investigated by the Media Betterment Committee.

The Library Forces, a group formed to help libraries protect their collections from government attempts to get rid of books it deems unsuitable, sends in a temporary replacement for the director of the Kanto Library Base who has become ill, but when Iku and her roommate Asako discover books are missing, they must figure out whether the substitute director is working with the enemy.

A collection of fourteen critical essays that debate issues of book banning and censorship.

Elena, having inherited the lost power of good in the land of Alasea, bands together with a one-armed warrior, a strange seer, and other outcasts and outlaws in order to fight the unstoppable forces of evil and save the once-glorious empire.

Contains three stories in which Arthur and his friends fight to save their favorite ghost stories from being removed from the library, deal with superstitions, and try to save the planet from a comet.

Explains why books are banned and presents a brief history of book banning.