I never knew there was a banned book list until my oldest was looking into colleges to attend. We went to an open house at U. of Maine and took the tour. In the student book store they had a table set up with a display of maybe 12 banned books for sale. It was 4 years ago, I forget now how many or what titles were there. But I do remember my daughter and I had read most of them & thought they were great books. We ended up buying 2 of them that we hadn't yet read.

I was happy to know that not all places are closed minded. It was great that this school thought it's student body should be free to read the books it wanted to. As far as elementary school aged children, I think it's up to the parent to monitor what they read.

But books should never be banned!! What happened to freedom of speech? And freedom of the press? Our constitutional forefathers must be rolling over in thier graves....