Banned Books Week Giveaway

Banned Books Week
September 26−October 3, 2009



In honor of Banned Books Week, I'm interrupting my reading schedule and challenges to read a book from the Books Challenged and/or Banned 2008-2009 list.

I'm currently reading...

Looking for Alaska
by John Green

Challenged, but retained for the eleventh-grade Regents English classes in Depew, N.Y. (2008) despite concerns about graphic language and sexual content. The school sent parents a letter requesting permission to use the Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature novel and only three students were denied permission to read the book.


Description from amazon:
Miles "Pudge" Halter is abandoning his safe-okay, boring-life. Fascinated by the last words of famous people, Pudge leaves for boarding school to seek what a dying Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps."

Pudge becomes encircled by friends whose lives are everything but safe and boring. Their nucleus is razor-sharp, sexy, and self-destructive Alaska, who has perfected the arts of pranking and evading school rules. Pudge falls impossibly in love. When tragedy strikes the close-knit group, it is only in coming face-to-face with death that Pudge discovers the value of living and loving unconditionally.


*** Giveaway ***

Open to all.

Offer ends: October 10, 2009

Prize:
My copy of Looking for Alaska by John Green.

Details:

Visit, read and comment on:
Misty's post on Perks of Being A Wallflower

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