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• - A list of the 50 most frequently challenged titles in schools and public libraries between 1990 and 1992, based on Herbert Foerstel's book, Banned in the U.S.A.
  
• - Anti-censorship site with a look at banned books.
  
• - This exhibition from the University of Virginia Libraries includes numerous cover images of censored books, plus thoughtful and informative commentary.
  
• - This informative article from education World is mainly aimed at teachers, but it is useful for anyone concerned with book banning and censorship in schools. Challenges to school materials are a common occurrence. How should such challenges be handled? Ho
  
• - Information and resources for challenging controversial books in K-12 schools.
  
• - Freedom to Read Week encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom.
  
• - A think tank on artistic and intellectual freedom that provides empirical research and policy development on tough censorship issues.
  
• - A list of the most frequently challenged books of the 1990s, based on the challenges reported to ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom.
  
• - Special exhibit of books that have been the objects of censorship or censorship attempts.
  
• - Essay by Suzanne Fisher Staples on censorship in American school libraries.
  
• - A bookstore and resource for information about censorship and book banning.
  
• - Current news, features and trend analysis in free expression issues in U.S.
  
• - Autodafe.org provides writings of authors giving their perspectives of the social or political situations, analyses and thoughts on literary creativity, and the examples of censoring currently practiced in the world.
  
• - Modest collection of sayings and viewpoints of book burning.
  
• - Dorothy Bryant's in-progress non-fiction work analyzes specific cases of author suppression by the media.
  
• - Describes a case where a school board voted to ban a book about youth gang culture, to the dismay of many in the community.
  
• - Archive of case files pertaining to the censorship and suppression of works and ideas from Socrates to Judy Blume.
  
• - Twain's responses to the banning of his books, from letters and interviews.
  
• - Home page for a University of Texas course on book banning.
  
• - An librarians' finding guide for information on banned books and censorship.
  
• - Alibris' section of books that have been banned, challenged, or expurgated, and the often humorous reasons why.
  
• - A satirical plea to ban Shakespeare and the Bible on the same basis that other books have been banned.
  
• - A collective of Canadian students fighting censorship.
  
• - This article from Education World explores the issue of book banning with a special focus on the Rowling's Harry Potter books, and includes a set of resources for establishing procedures in school systems to handle challenges to popular books.
  
• - Directory of Web and print censorship resources with detailed descriptions of each link.
  
• - News and updates on matters of free speech, book banning and related issues for booksellers.
  
• - Formerly Muggles for Harry Potter, kidSPEAK believes that it is wrong to ban books in classrooms and school libraries because some parents object to their content. Restricting the use of books that kids want to read violates their First Amendment rights a
  
• - Loyola University Chicago Libraries' information page about book banning in the U.S. and abroad, with a section on electronic documents.
  
• - Advocates much more proactive efforts by schools and parents to review content in assigned reading materials.