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This is Banned Books Week, an annual event where we celebrate our right to read, access to information and revisit those “controversial” classics that shaped our world. Some books show up on the Banned Book List each year. (The list is put out by the American Library Association from the challenges they receive, requesting books be pulled from library shelves or removed from classrooms.) Classics that can... 
Twitter and blogs have been buzzing today about a column written by Wesley Scroggins, who would like to see certain novels currently in Missouri school curriculum banned. (He also asserts his issues with sex education.) His main beef is with the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, which he equates to “soft pornography” due to rape scenes. (Yes, you read that right. He doesn’t understand rape is an act...
