Banned Books Week comes at tense time for nation's libraries and schools

Banned Books Week, an annual event first established in 1982, has arrived amid a tumultuous time for reading in America as both schools and libraries try to fend off rising campaigns to remove titles from shelves. Numbers released by free speech group PEN America show a 33 percent spike in attempted book bans in the…

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