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Banned Books Week
WHAT: Banned Books Week Reception with author Sonya Sones
DATE: Wednesday, September 30, 2009
TIME: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
NOTES: Keynote speech, "Vulgarity, Filth and Me", by Sonya Sones 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM, followed by a book signing. For more information see the reception flyer. [PDF]
Read OCPL's Banned Books Week brochure for more information about Banned Books Week.
About Our 2009 Banned Books Week Author
SONYA SONES has written four novels-in-verse.
Her first book, Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy, received a Christopher Award, the Myra Cohn Livingston Award for Poetry, the Claudia Lewis Poetry Award, a Gradiva Award, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Her second book, What My Mother Doesn't Know, was chosen a Best Book for Young Adults and a Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers by the American Library Association. But the coolest honor that book received was when the ALA included it on their list of the Top Ten Most Challenged Books in 2004, and then again in 2005.
Her third and fourth books, One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies, and What My Girlfriend Doesn’t Know, won loads of prizes too, including the “Omigod, Having a Mother Who Writes Teen Novels is SO Embarrassing” Award from her daughter, Ava.
See a partial list of books that have been banned or challenged, provided by the American Library Association on the Banned or Challenged Books page.
Last updated: March 18, 2010