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Freedom to Read: Challenged Books in Canada

To underline the relevance and importance of Freedom to Read Week and censorship issues, we have created a list of Canadian books that have been subject to censorship, banned or legally challenged in Canadian schools and libraries recently and in past decades. This list has been adapted from the Freedom to Read Week "List of Challenged Books and Magazines." You can find the full list at https://www.freedomtoread.ca/challenged-works/

by Kerry Clare · Tagged banned books, freedom to read week

When Everything Feels like the Movies

by (author) Raziel Reid

This One Summer

by (author) Mariko Tamaki
illustrated by Jillian Tamaki

Betty

The Helen Betty Osborne Story

by (author) David A. Robertson
illustrated by Scott B. Henderson

Essex County Volume 1: Tales From The Farm

by (author) Jeff Lemire

The Young in One Another's Arms

by (author) Jane Rule
introduction by Katherine V. Forrest

Hey Dad!

by (author) Brian Doyle

Glory Days and Other Stories

by (author) Gillian Chan

Ziggy Piggy and the Three Little Pigs

illustrated by Frank Asch

Asha's Mums

by (author) Rosamund Elwin & Michele Paulse
illustrated by Dawn Lee

Who Is Frances Rain?

by (author) Margaret Buffie

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

by (author) Mordecai Richler
afterword by David Carpenter

The Shepherd's Granddaughter

by (author) Anne Laurel Carter

Penguin Modern Classics the Wars

by (author) Timothy Findley
foreword by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Bad Medicine - Revised & Updated

A Judge’s Struggle for Justice in a First Nations Community – Revised & Updated

by (author) John Reilly

Barometer Rising

Large Print Edition

by (author) Hugh MacLennan

Listen to Me, Grace Kelly

by (author) Sandy Frances Duncan

Penguin Celebrations - Lives of Girls and Women

by (author) Alice Munro

Matthew and the Midnight Flood

by (author) Allen Morgan

Who's in Maxine's Tree

by (author) Diane Carmel Leger
illustrated by Darlene Gait

The Handmaid's Tale

by (author) Margaret Atwood

Last of the Golden Girls

by (author) S. Swan & Susan Swan

Three Wishes

by (author) Deborah Ellis

Underground To Canada

Puffin Classics Edition

by (author) Barbara Smucker
foreword by Lawrence Hill