Thursday 27 September 2012

Banned Books Week Giveaway! (INT)


This week is Banned Books Week. This is when we talk about all the books that have been challenged or banned. For YA books this usually happens in schools.

This week I am going to be promoting books that have been challenged or banned that I enjoyed.

Unwind was banned from use in the classroom at Montgermy County High School back in 2010. While it was still available in the library, parents complained about their children studying the book due to foul language, sexual references, child abuse, drug abuse and suicide. I believe that Unwind raises some serious issues that society needs to address. It is based in a dystopic setting however the issues are very real today. I believe that children aged 15+ are old enough learn about these topics.

I am giving away a copy of Unwind by Neal Shusterman and, while the sequel hasn't been banned or challenged as far as I am aware, I am throwing in a copy of the Unwholly, the sequel, as well.












Unwind (Unwind #1) and Unwholly (Unwind #2) by Neal Shusterman

Rules
  • This giveaway will end 7th October (10/7/2012)
  • As much as I would love to give the book away to anyone, I'm afraid I cannot award the prize to anyone under the age of 13.
  • This giveaway is INT.(as long as the Book Depository ships to your country)
  • You will have 48 hours to respond to the email otherwise I will choose another winner.
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Check out the other great giveaways for Banned Books Week.

56 comments:

  1. I've enjoyed many banned books. I remember reading The Outsiders and Go Ask Alice when I was a teenager and they were such powerful reads. And of course I love Harry Potter and The Hunger Games.

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  2. I loved The Hunger Games and also The Lovely Bones and Hold Still. I still need to read more :)

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  3. I loved Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, and Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma. :)
    Thank you for the giveaway!!

    Marijana Sitar

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  4. To Kill a Mockingbird Harry Potter (all of them) Twilight The Hunger Games

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  5. Loved many on that list but my favorite is The Hunger Games!

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  6. Of Mice and Men, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Hunger Games, The Outsiders, and The Pigman to name a few. (Nikki Marie on rafflecopter)

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  7. I loved The Giver and the Hunger Games trilogy! Thanks for this amazing giveaway - I would love to win!

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  8. I love Harry Potter, The Hunger Games and Twilight.

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  9. I adore the Hunger Games and Harry Potter series!

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  10. Harry Potter, Hunger Games, To Kill a Mockingbird...

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  11. My favorite (Harry Potter and Hunger Games aside) is the Giver.

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  12. The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Thank you. :)

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  13. I've enjoyed the Hunger Games an To Kill a Mockingbird.
    Thank you for the giveaway :)

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  14. Loved Brave New World and The Great Gatsby

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  15. The Hunger Games, The Outsiders, Carrie

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  16. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.
    Thanks for the giveaway!

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  17. I love the Harry potter series, they're my absolute favorite, and people who ban them must have never read them!

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  18. I borrowed a copy of unwind and i loved it so i would love to have my own copy! I've also read harry potter and judy blume's books :)

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  19. Honestly, all the banned books I have read, have been very good!

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  20. I lovet The perks of being a wallflower

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  21. Hi Becky! I am actually not sure if I have read a banned book yet or not. :D But you know, banned or not, if I like the book, I will read it. :D - Ara

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  22. Harry Potter was banned in my middle school!

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  23. Hunger Games and Harry Potter!

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  24. Harry Potter and the Hunger Games

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  25. Of Mice and Men, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Wrinkle in Time, Harry Potter, Twilight, and more!

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  26. I loved Harry Potter.
    Thanks for the giveaway! :)

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  27. My favorite banned books are Harry Potter,Vampire Academy,Twilight and Hunger Games.

    Thanks for the international giveaway!!

    Rafflecopter name - Rosemarie D

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  28. I liked The Hunger Games and Twilight!

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  29. I loved The Hunger Games and Sylvia Plath's Bell Jar. Thanks!

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  30. Looking for Alaska by John Green DFTBA!

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  31. To Kill A Mockingbird
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  32. Brave New World, To Kill a Mockingbird, Fahrenheit 451

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  33. Bridge to Terabithia, Harry Potter, bone, To Kill a Mockingbird...

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  34. Tons! Harry potter, the giver, hunger games, the outsiders...

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  35. So many, but my favourites are Harry Potter and the Hunger Games.

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  36. The Hunger Games! Until recently I didn't know that they were banned books.

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  37. Wow...ay too many to list, but let's just say that childhood wouldn't have been the same without Judy Blume and Madeline L'Engle...or Stephen King to read under the covers with a flashlight :)

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  38. The Hunger Games! Loved reading them!

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  39. A Wrinkle in Time, His Dark Materials, Bridge to Terabithia, Harry Potter series~ so many banned books on my love list!

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  40. Harry Potter, its kind of funny that is banned!
    athanks for making this ionternational

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  41. I love the Giver, and Harry Potter, and Lord of the Rings, and so many of the ones I have read.

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  42. The Giver, The Hunger Games, To Kill A Mockingbird, Fahrenheit 45, etc <3

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  43. I would have to say the Twilight series, the Vampire Academy series, Chris Crutcher's books, & the Harry Potter series.

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  44. Harry Potter series and the Hunger Games Trilogy. :)

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  45. So many of the books I have enjoyed over the years have made the list. Farenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, I could go on and on.
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  47. The Color Purple, The Kite Runner, To Kill a Mockingbird...so many more. Thanks!

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  48. I love To Kill a Mockingbird and What My Mother Doesn't Know. Thanks!

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  49. Lots of classics and Stephen King books

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