Fossil Ridge High School is celebrating Banned Books Week Sept. 30-Oct. 6 by participating in American Library Association’s (ALA) “Banned Books Virtual Read-Out.”
ALA is asking people around the country to spread awareness of banned books by creating videos of themselves reading out of banned books and speaking their thoughts on the freedom to read. The FRHS media staff invites students to read an excerpt from their favorite banned book to be put in the school’s own virtual read-out submission during banned book week. (For an example, check out Booksmans Virtual-Read Out video).
Want to enter but don’t know what to read? Popular books include To Kill a Mockingbird, the Harry Potter series, and The Hunger Games series. The top 10 challenged books of 2011 according to Banned Books Week are:
10. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
9. Gossip Girl series by Cecily Von Ziegesar
8. What My Mother Doesn’t Know by Sonya Sones
7. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
6. Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
5. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
4. My Mom’s having A Baby! A Kid’s Month-by-Month Guide to Pregnancy by Dori Hillestad Butler
3. The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
2. The Color of Earth by Kim Dong Hwa
1. ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r series by Lauren Myracle
Fort Collins Reads is the Bollywood movie Bride and Prejudice Oct. 4 at 7 p.m. at the Lyric Theatre downtown. The film is a Bollywood version of Pride and Prejudice.
For more information on banned books and Banned Books Week, click here.
