Banned Books Book Club: Pitkin County Library
Tue, Feb 25
|Aspen
Banned books book club will be reading materials that have been historically challenged or are on the American Library Association's current challenge list. All suggestions are taken from a list compiled by current and past participants of our book club.
Time & Location
Feb 25, 2025, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Aspen, 120 N Mill St, Aspen, CO 81611, USA
About the event
This year's banned books book club will be reading materials that have been historically challenged or are on the American Library Association's current challenge list. All suggestions are taken from a list compiled by current and past book club participants.We will discuss the reasons for the item's ban or challenge and the importance of access in upholding intellectual freedom. This is a safe place for difficult discussions.
Book Dates & Descriptions:
10-29-24: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz, Drawn from the oral traditions of American folklore, these ghost stories and tales of weird happenings, witches, and graveyards have startling, funny, or surprising endings.
11-26-24: Sold by Patricia McCormick, Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that…