[CALIBK12] Needed quickly-- contemporary British authors

[Waddle, Victoria]

I hope this is not too late-I was just thinking about this topic yesterday. I also hope these are contemporary enough-some are still writing:

Richard George Adams (b. 1920)
Kingsley Amis (1922-1995)
Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
Anita Desai (b. 1937)
Margaret Drabble (b. 1939)
Henry Green (1905-1973)
Kazou Ishiguro (b. 1954)
John Le Carre (b. 1931)
Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)
V. S. Naipal (b. 1932)
Anthony Powell (1905-2000)
Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)
P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975)

Victoria Waddle
Teacher Librarian
Colony High
Ontario, CA

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From: calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu [mailto:calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu] On Behalf Of Millam, Joy
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Subject: [CALIBK12] Needed quickly-- contemporary British authors

Oh collective brain,
Please help.  I need the names of contemporary British authors and fast!  Class coming soon.  Help!

Joy Millam
YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers Chairperson (2009)
District Library Coordinator/Library Media Teacher
Valencia High School
500 N. Bradford Ave.
Placentia, CA 92870
714-996-4970 x3250
jmillam at pylusd.org<mailto:jmillam at pylusd.org>

http://www.vhstigers.org/library/mrs_millam.jsp?rn=1816497
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Subject: [CALIBK12] A book challenge or not

Calibers,

I thought you might appreciate something I experienced recently in the library.

A student came up rather briskly to the circulation counter and stomped her foot, stood up straight, tossed her long curly hair over her shoulder and said, "I want to know if you have the book, The Golden Compass in the library and are you going to take it off the shelf?"  O.K. So here I had a big, I hope, internal sigh.

I said, "Yes as a matter of fact we do have the book and why do you think we would take it off the shelf?"  My student replied, "Well at my sister's school they took it off the shelf and I think that that's just wrong!  I read the book and I loved it."

I explained that we have a process in place for challenging books and that I wouldn't be taking the book off the shelf unless the book was challenged and went through the lengthy process.

But the story sadly doesn't end there.  I have had several inquiries this week about challenging various books.  It seems too coincidental.  I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced a sudden increase in "censorship"?   I'm emailing from my home email account and will not be able to respond to emails until after school hours.

Christine Reardon

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