Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-229) and indexe.
Contents
21st century student -- Origins of school censorship in the United States -- 21st century media specialist-teacher-student alliance -- Prime targets -- Emerging concerns -- No longer safe: children's and young adult literature -- Internet issues -- In-depth look at censorship litigation -- Reasonable responses to censorship -- Outreach approach: hope for the future -- Appendices: Petitt's criteria for judging fiction for adolescents -- Muller's list of quality young adult fiction -- Introduction to the American Library Association's Celebrating the freedom to read (1988) -- Library bill of rights -- Excerpt from The student's right to read -- National Council of Teachers of English resolutions on censorship -- IRA stands against censorship, Reading Today, March 1989.