Books, baby, Books! Created by Mr. Sam Bundy

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Books, baby, Books!Created by Mr. Sam Bundy

• 50,000 Titles published each year
• Less than 10,000 are fiction

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Types

• Fiction
• Genre Fiction
• Popular fiction
• Non fiction

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Literature Tests

• The test of time
• Seriousness of purpose or theme
• Critical acclaim

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Terms

• Advance
• Royalty
• Self-publishing
• http//www.lulu.com/
• Literary agent

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Challenged Books

• Harry Potter series, by J.K. Rowling, for its
  focus on wizardry and magic.
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, for using
  offensive language and being unsuited to age
  group.
• The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier (the "Most
  Challenged" fiction book of 1998), for using
  offensive language and being unsuited to age
  group.
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou,
  for sexual content, racism, offensive language,
  violence and being unsuited to age group.
• Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene for
  racism, offensive language and being sexually
  explicit.
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger for
  offensive language and being unsuited to age
  group.
• Alice series, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, for
  being sexually explicit, using offensive language
  and being unsuited to age group.
• Go Ask Alice by Anonymous for being sexually
  explicit, for offensive language and drug use.
• Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers, for offensive
  language and being unsuited to age group.
• Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause for
  being sexually explicit and unsuited to age
  group.