To kick off the start of Ban This!, I'm having a contest! Well 2, actually. But the second one won't come until mid-month.
So what's up for grabs? Well, the winner gets to choose 1 book from the following list taken off of the 08/09 banned books list from ALA--
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Alexie Sherman
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer
The Great Tree of Avalon: Child of the Dark Prophecy by TA Barron
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Dead Folks by Jon A. Jackson
The Boy Book: A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus Techniques for Taming Them by E. Lockhart
ttfn by Lauren Myracle
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison
Whispers from the Dead by Joan Lowery Nixon
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
ttyl by Lauren Myracle
Prep: A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer
The Great Tree of Avalon: Child of the Dark Prophecy by TA Barron
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Dead Folks by Jon A. Jackson
The Boy Book: A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus Techniques for Taming Them by E. Lockhart
ttfn by Lauren Myracle
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison
Whispers from the Dead by Joan Lowery Nixon
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
ttyl by Lauren Myracle
Prep: A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Whatever book the winner chooses will be removed from the list in the next contest. Here's what you have to do to enter--
Comment with your email to enter
+5 for already following
+3 for newly following (please specify or I'm just going to assume you're new)
+3 for linking to the contest
+10 for posting the Ban This! banner in your sidebar and linking back here
+10 for joining in the Ban This! rally and promising to post about banned and challenged books this month (for this, please post on the original Ban This! post with your blog address, just click the banner at the top of my sidebar)
This contest will run until September 15th at midnight, EST. US residents only, please! Good luck!
Comment with your email to enter
+5 for already following
+3 for newly following (please specify or I'm just going to assume you're new)
+3 for linking to the contest
+10 for posting the Ban This! banner in your sidebar and linking back here
+10 for joining in the Ban This! rally and promising to post about banned and challenged books this month (for this, please post on the original Ban This! post with your blog address, just click the banner at the top of my sidebar)
This contest will run until September 15th at midnight, EST. US residents only, please! Good luck!
35 comments:
It's so effing idiotic to ban books! Grr.
(omgitswendy at gmail dot com)
+5 for already following
+10 for joining in the Ban This! rally and promising to post about banned and challenged books this month (for this, please post on the original Ban This! post with your blog address, just click the banner at the top of my sidebar)
Absolutely I will be posting about this! In fact, I'm going to go write it up right now.. Er, right after Big Brother. :)
(omgitswendy at gmail dot com)
+5 for already being a follower.
infinitemusic19 at gmail dot com
Ugh, I hate it when people ban books. who are they to say what should and should not be read?
at the most only a parent/ guardian can tell a kid they cant read a book.
Dani.
lightningstreak123@comcast.net
Extras:
+5: Follower!
+3: Linked to sidebar-
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+10: Badge in sidebar-
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Yay! Several books on here I'd love to read, and I'm a firm believer in supporting the spread of banned books. :)
+5 for already following
I'm out of time right now, but I'll try to link back later. This is awesome, Donna. Best of luck, all!
count me in please
+5 already a follower
throuthehaze at gmail dot com
+5 For current follower.
This is stupid, banning books. Teens have the right to read what they want!
barbrafl737 (at) yahoo (dot) com
Would love to win.
kalynnick AT yahoo DOT com
It's so stupid to ban books. I just don't get it...
+3 for newly following
Thanks,
Tracey
booklover0226 AT gmail DOT com
Mary D
zenrei57 (at) hotmail (dot) com
Please count me in!!! I absolutely am appalled that anyone thinks they have the right to ban books!!
Mary D
zenrei57 (at) hotmail (dot) com
+5 Am a Follower :)
Old follower via google reader :D
LOL a lot of those books I've seen everywhere so it's funny how they're banned.
+5 for already being a follower.
laurenscrammedbookshelf@gmail.com
+5 follower
+3 Link in sidebar
http://yabookqueen.blogspot.com
yabookqueen@yahoo.com
Thanks!
+5 old follower
+10 for joining in on Ban This week
adrienne2093(at)comcast(dot)net
Banning books is stupid. As the saying goes Stupid is as stupid does. Which is why the people who ban books should have stupid seared into their forehead.
+10 Joined Ban This! and already blogged about it.
jessica(at)fan(dot)com
I can't believe book banning still exists. It's so dumb. If you ban a book people are just going to want to read it more. Well, at least that what I think. =]
+5 for already following
+3 for linking
+10 posting banner and linking
katieb206@gmail.com
This is a fantastical contest! Banning books is lame.
+5 for already following
:) Erica
thebookcellar@wi.rr.com
+3 new follower
I don't understand why they ban books, it's so silly and pointless. freedom of speech!
willbprez at aol dot com
+ 3 Wanted to add I have since become a follower. Thanks for following me and the comment you left on my site.
jessica(at)fan(dot)com
I'm a new follower (+3)
nancyecdavis AT bellsouth DOT net
Wow. I'm shocked at the titles that were banned. Love to enter!
+5 already a follower
Amber
justyourtypicalbookblog(at)hotmail(dot)com
As an English teacher I have to walk a fine line between what is "appropriate" and what books students NEED to read - those books that will teach them something other books can't.
+5 already follow
+10 added the Ban This! banner to my sidebar and linked to your post about it. http://owlforya.blogspot.com
foltzsfantasticbooks at gmail.com
The funny things about "banned" books is that it just makes young readers seek these books out more. I know that I've read a good chunk of the books listed above, and they are worth reading, and everyone should have the oppurtunity to read them.
+5 I'm already a follower.
Thanks for the contest!
Jennapomme@yahoo.com
Awesome contest! Please enter me as a new follower....adding you to google reader now!
biblioharlot at gmail dot com
Loving this contest!
booksobsession(at)gmail(dot)com
+5 I already follow you.
+3 Posted on my sidebar at http://booksobsession.blogspot.com
Thanks!
Wow. I'm surprised at some of the book on there, what harm could TTYL possible cause? I mean really?
I'm alredy a follower.
enter me please.
Most of the books that get banned aren't even controversial! Ugh, I hate censorchip!
+5 for already following
+3 linky in deh sidebar
+10 for posting the Ban This! banner in your sidebar and linking back here (will do!)
pancakesthepenguin(at)hotmail(dot)com
This is a fabulous contest! Definitely count me in.
+5 already follower
+3 sidebar: http://frombrianaspointofview.blogspot.com/
+10 Button on blog: http://thebookpixie.blogspot.com/
+10 I plan to do atleast a review on a banned book and maybe a contest.
~Briana :D
thebookpixie[at]yahoo[dot]com
I love what you are doing and fully support it. Go banned books!
+3 new follower
Marie
utah91960(at)yahoo(dot)com
Keep it up!
zenfoxflowerATyahooDOTcom
I would like to read Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire.
Hi. Love your site.
I'm a new follower. So just +3. (:
Thank you!
xjentastickx(at)aol(dot)com.
What a great contest for a great cause! I wish I had noticed it sooner.
+5 Follower
+3 added to sidebar
+10 adding banner to sidebar
www.wrightysreads.blogspot.com
5wrights1[at]verizon[dot]net
+5 for already following
+3 posted on sidebar
+10 Ban This! banner on sidebar:
http://hookedonyabooks.blogspot.com/
lovinfitch(at)aol(dot)com
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