McQuade Library Updates

Every year libraries and schools receive hundreds of challenges from people who object to various books. Can you tell what challenged books these quotes are from? Answer in the comments!

“But right in the middle of the steaming and the making and the smelling and the baking Mickey poked through and said: ‘I’m not the milk and milk’s not me! I’m Mickey!’”


“After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn’t care no more about him, because I don’t take no stock in dead people.”

“When weekends come, we do all sorts of things together. We go to ball games, visit the zoo, go to the beach, work in the yard, go shopping, and in the evenings we sing at the piano.”

“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how may parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”

“I couldn’t stop myself from peeking occasionally through the screen of my hair at the strange boy next to me. During the whole class, he never relaxed his stiff position on the edge of his chair, sitting as far from me as possible.”

“Harry, though still rather small and skinny for his age, had grown a few inches over the last year. His jet-black hair, however, was just as it always had been — stubbornly untidy, whatever he did to it. The eyes behind his glasses were bright green, and on his forehead, clearly visible through his hair, was a thin scar, shaped like a bolt of lightning.”

Learn more about Banned Books Week and the fight against censorhip:
Banned Books Week
American Book Sellers Foundation For Free Expression
Kids’ Right to Read Project
National Coalition Against Censorship
American Library Association