Be a rebel: Read a Banned Book!!

Sept. 30-Oct. 6 is Banned Books Week. Now is a perfect time to celebrate the Freedom to Read with by reading a book that's been challenged or banned. You can choose from the Top 10 Challenged Books by Year (2001-2011), the 100 Most Challenged Books by decade, and a list of Banned and Challenged Classics, courtesy of the American Library Association.

A few titles to whet your appetite: The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Giver by Lois Lowry, the entire Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, My Sister's Keeper, by Jodi Picoult, and Halloween ABC, by Eve Merriam.

Curious if you can find them in Framingham? Just search by title or author in the online catalog (http://www.mln.lib.ma.us/). If it's not in Framingham, you may be able to request it from another Minuteman library by hitting the "Request" button, or we'll see about borrowing it from another US library through interlibrary loan.

Questions? Contact the Reference Department  at http://www.framinghamlibrary.org/asklib.htm or fplmail6@minlib.net, or call 508-532-5570 ext. 4361).