Shelf-Aware: Banned/Challenged Books

Alternate Fridays • 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m. • Zoom

September 19 • October 3, 17, 31 • November 14, (28 no class) • December 5

Have you ever been curious about books which are challenged and banned? If so, please join us in this new course, called “Shelf-Aware,” which will focus on some of our most beloved literary works. We’ll learn details about the reasons behind these threatened publications. We will dive deep, exploring and appreciating picture books, chapter books, young adult books and adult books.

Shelf-aware is a new Zoom class for anyone who has ever been curious about books which are challenged and or banned…please join us as we read & discuss picture book titles; chapter book titles; young adult titles & adult titles - we will also learn background on book banning; we meet from1:30 until 2:20 on alternate Fridays - here is our schedule:

9/19 please read & be prepared to discuss: Frog & toad are friends by Arnold Lobel; Where the wild things are by Maurice Sendak 

10/3 please read & be prepared to discuss Where the sidewalk ends by Shellie Silverstein

10/17 please read & be prepared to discuss Charlotte’s web by E B White

10/31 please read & be prepared to discuss Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

11/14 please read & be prepared to discuss One flew over the cuckoo’s nest by Ken Kesey

12/5 please read the short story The Lottery, as well as the novella, Of mice & men by John Steinbeck

Instructor/Coordinator: Andrea Tarr