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Banned Books Week Handbook Online
September 29 - October 6, 2007


Event Ideas for Booksellers

Looking for some event ideas for Banned Books Week? 

Stage a Banned Books Reading in Your Store!  Choose titles from ABFFE's Banned and Challenged Books List, and recruit local celebrities to read, or solicit volunteers.  Hold readings in a store window or in a special "Banned Book Reading Corner."  You can also organize a "Banned Books Marathon."  Check out what bookstores, librarians, universities, and civil liberties organizations have done in the past!

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Book People's Banned Books Week Events 2004  Book People participated in Banned Books Week 2004 with a week of fun events, including two Read-A-Thons, in which famous local writers, elected officials, and nonprofit notables read excerpts from books banned or challenged in the state of Texas during the previous year.   

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Kansas State University Read-A-Thon for Banned Books Week 2004  

Take further action:
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Exhibit Reading Your Rights

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Contact your local ACLU affiliate and organize a joint event.
 

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