3. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.: “If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.”

4. Noam Chomsky: “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”

5. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas: “Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.”

6. 2007 Challenged Books And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson/Peter Parnell The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier Olive’s Ocean, by Kevin Henkes The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain

7. 2007 Challenged Books The Color Purple, by Alice Walker TTYL, by Lauren Myracle I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou It’s Perfectly Normal, by Robie Harris The Perks of Being A Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky

8. Others You’ve Heard of/Read The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown Farenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury The Giver, by Lois Lowry Harry Potter (series), by J.K. Rowling Of Mice & Men, by John Steinbeck

9. Others You’ve Heard of/Read Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson Goosebumps (series), by R.L. Stine The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton James & the Giant Peach, by Roald Dahl To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee website

10. Reading: What’s in it for You? FREEDOM

11. Sources American Library Association Website: www.ala.org/bbooks Banned Books Week Website: www.bannedbooks.org