Banned Book Club
Wednesday every six weeks (See dates and books below)
6:30 – 8pm | Room 111
Do your best to read the book before the discussion.
Every year, books are banned and challenged in public and school libraries, usually because they fall somewhere on a wide spectrum of appropriateness. Often a single parent (or someone who doesn’t have a child in the school district) can challenge a book, which effectively removes it from the shelves pending a review. Many children (and adults) get their reading books from their school or public library, so removing them from the shelf makes them inaccessible to that reader, effectively banning them. We rebelliously read these banned books and discuss what they are about and why they have been banned.
Questions? Contact Dianne Edson – dianne@cargillumc.org
Below is reading schedule for 2026
May 27 – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
July 8 – The Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
August 19 – The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
September 30 – The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
November 11 – Assassination Classroom, Vol. 1 by Yusei Matsui
