1. Challenged literature
Choosing novels
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2. This is how we do it:
• I introduce four novels...
• ...You vote to keep two of them...
• Then you choose which one of those two that
you want to read!
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3. Go Ask Alice by ...?
• 1971 - still in print
• Real diary.. Or?
• Ordinary teenage girl
turns drug user!
• USA in the late 60s
• One of ALAs top 100
most challenged books!
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5. The Giver by Lois Lowry
• 1993
• Sci-fi /dystopic fiction
• USA in a distant
future...
• Jonas, 12
• One of the most
challenged books during
the 90s
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7. The Outsiders by S.E Hinton
• 1967 by a high-school
student!
• Young adult fiction
• Oklahoma, USA, late
60s
• Two rival gangs clash!
• One of the top 100
most challenged books!
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10. The Hunger Games by Suzanne
Collins
•
2008
• Sci-fi/ dystopic fiction
• Post-apocalyptic future
(former USA)
• Girl enters reality-TV
competition where you
don’t win until you have
killed everyone else.
• #5 most challenged
book in 2010!
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12. On the class blog, you will find a
short poll. Pick the TWO novels
that you want to read the most.
Don’t forget to enter your name and
send:)
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