Celebrating the Freedom to Read

Banned Books Week is scheduled for September 26 - October 2, 2021.

Although various classrooms and libraries around Blaine County typically participate in this annual event, area teachers and librarians encourage all residents to celebrate the freedom to read by selecting to read one of the Top Ten Challenged Books of 2020. Readers will have to decide for themselves whether a book on the list is redeemable or objectionable. This year’s theme is “Books Unite Us. Censorship Divides Us.”

Celebrating the freedom to read, Banned Books Week (BBW) was launched in 1982 by the American Library Associat...