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Freshman Audra Duvall won the Miller Library’s Banned Book Week Contest. A Landscape Architecture major, Duvall answered all four Banned Book Trivia Questions correctly and earned herself Barry Ween’s classic “%@$# Censorship” T-Shirt. Congratulations Audra!

The questions & answers:
1. Which banned author won an honorary National Book Award for Contributions to American Letters in September 2004? Judy Blume
2. Here is a quote from which commonly banned author? “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.” Mark Twain
3. The title of an article in the October 15, 2000 edition of The New York Times claimed that this routinely banned children’s book is “not just for kids.” What book is it? Harry Potter
4. This repeatedly challenged children’s book is considered controversial because a girl named Heather has two what? Mommies

September 25th to October 2nd is Banned Book Week! Celebrate your freedom to read by entering the Library’s Banned Book Trivia Contest and earn the chance to win this Barry Ween “@#$! Censorship” T-Shirt.
Answer these 4 questions and turn in them in at the Library’s Circulation Desk.

1. Which banned author won an honorary National Book Award for Contributions to American Letters in September 2004?
2. Here is a quote from which commonly banned author? “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”
3. The title of an article in the October 15, 2000 edition of The New York Times claimed that this routinely banned children’s book is “not just for kids.” What book is it?
4. This repeatedly challenged children’s book is considered controversial because a girl named Heather has two what?

The Drawing for the T-shirt will be Thursday, October 7th.
For more information about Banned Book Week and Censorship, visit these sites
The American Library Association
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund