Thursday, April 15, 2010
Twilight series on list of challenged books
The Twilight Book series was ranked No. 5 on the annual report of “challenged books” released by the American Library Association.
Read more about it here.
Here is an excerpt:
Meyer’s stories of vampires and teen romance have been criticized for sexual content; a library association official also thinks that the “Twilight” series reflects general unease about supernatural stories.
“Vampire novels have been a target for years and the `Twilight’ books are so immensely popular that a lot of the concerns people have had about vampires are focused on her books,” says Barbara Jones, director of the association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom.
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