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  by Jonathan Victor

  Created on: October 07, 2010

  More than a decade ago, when I was fourteen years old, I put a book on hold from the library because

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  by J. Brown

  Created on: September 08, 2009

  No, books should not have ratings applied to their content. In every form of media rating, systems will

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  by Melissa Washington

  Created on: June 18, 2009

  What is happening in this country? As time goes on and technology advances, we claim to be more modernized,

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  by S.E. Ingraham

  Created on: September 25, 2009

  When I consider the idea of books with ratings like movies, shades of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451,

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  by Elizabeth M Young

  Created on: October 03, 2009

  Adults should be able to take responsibility for themselves, for goodness sakes. If an adult is too

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  by Kimberly Huggins-Staudt

  Created on: November 30, 2010

  Should books have ratings like movies to warn parents about inappropriate content?

  A lot has been written,

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  by J. L. Benjamin

  Created on: August 28, 2007

  Lets stop censorship! Is this what the issue is really about? No. Its about the children. Its about

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  by Lesley Mason

  Created on: August 10, 2008

  There are moves afoot in the British publishing industry to introduce Age Bands to be prominently displayed

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  by Mary Beougher

  Created on: August 08, 2010   Last Updated: August 30, 2010

  No additional rating system is needed when it comes to the literature that children read. Books, particularly

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  by Sara W.

  Created on: September 03, 2007   Last Updated: August 12, 2009

  The real question at stake is one of censorship. Granted, warning labels do not censor a work of art

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  by Dorothy Hoffman

  Created on: September 23, 2009

  When I was 10 years old, I had gone through all the books in the "children's literature" section of

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  by Chrisanne Sikora

  Created on: May 29, 2009

  Implementing a ratings system for books is dangerously close to consenting to censorship. If we allow

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  by Bruce W. Coffman

  Created on: August 11, 2008

  What is inappropriate and who will decide? If we allow a ratings system on books, we will be accepting

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  by Norman Weibel

  Created on: November 21, 2008

  Purportedly the idea of rating books is for the purpose of making it easier for parents, teachers and

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  by Michael Collins

  Created on: September 04, 2007

  The question has been raised: movies have a rating system and music albums have the "parental advisory"

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  by Kate Flaxx

  Created on: August 09, 2010

  Books are for children to learn and explore.  In the time it takes for a child to read through

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  by Jackie Ballway

  Created on: March 16, 2008

  When I was in the fourth grade, I picked up a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird from my school's library.

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  by Michael Cronin

  Created on: October 08, 2010

  Books have historically been the main method for preserving information and passing it on from generation

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  by 'Rick Gray

  Created on: August 05, 2010   Last Updated: August 16, 2010

  This proposition presents a number of problems including constitutional questions; potential interference

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  by Isolde Marion

  Created on: February 13, 2009   Last Updated: February 19, 2009

  Intellectual freedom is one of the strongest concepts to ever emerge from western civilization. We know