Banned Books Week Movie Night: The Outsiders

The Library is celebrating Banned Books Week October 2-6!

Join us for our Banned Books Week Movie Festival, popcorn will be served.

On 10/2, we will be showing The Outsiders.

"The Outsiders is a novel by S. E. Hinton set in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1965. It was quite a controversial book when it was released, and it remains so today. In 1986, it was challenged in South Milwaukee, Wisconsin for its inclusion on an eighth grade reading list because “drug and alcohol abuse was common and virtually all the characters were from broken homes.” It is ranked #43 on the American Library Association’s Top 100 Most Challenged Books of 1990-2000 and has been banned from some schools and libraries because of its portrayal of gang violence, underage smoking and drinking, strong language, slang usage, and exposé on family dysfunction. In 1992, it was challenged in the Boone, Iowa School District because the book was seen as glamorizing smoking and drinking and uses excessive violence and obscenities. It was challenged in 2001 at George Washington Middle School in Eleanor, West Virginia due to objections to the focus on gangs and gang fights." (R. Wolf Baldassarro, Banned Books, Banned Books Awareness and Reading for Knowledge, Censorship, Social Change)