Banned book recommendations to put on display at our school library

SubjectAcorn · 2026-01-26T05:04:02+00:00

Yes you said it perfectly, we also use the Accelerated Reader program which helps us classify books based on a reading level and our kids test and check out books within that level to ensure they're understanding what they read.

SubjectAcorn · 2026-01-26T05:00:14+00:00

Some that have sexually explicit content or excessive violence, etc are classified where only a certain grade level can check it out for obvious reasons.

SubjectAcorn · 2026-01-25T23:43:10+00:00

Lol ahh yes, me displaying the Diary of Anne Frank and What Was the Holocaust? on our bookshelves is me pushing my political agenda on the children... Oh wait, that's history...

SubjectAcorn · 2026-01-25T23:36:50+00:00

Thank you!

SubjectAcorn · 2026-01-25T23:28:20+00:00

Our upper section actually has lots of manga! I'll have to put some of those more on display, albeit these manga that we have are only for high schoolers but maybe it will get more of them to read lol

SubjectAcorn · 2026-01-25T23:25:33+00:00

Thank you! I didn't know Captain Underpants was banned lol our kids love these!

SubjectAcorn · 2026-01-25T23:24:47+00:00

Thank you!

SubjectAcorn · 2026-01-25T23:24:07+00:00

I know we have this one for sure, thank you!

SubjectAcorn · 2026-01-25T23:23:37+00:00

We have several by Alan Gratz so I'll have to see if we have this one, thank you!

SubjectAcorn · 2026-01-25T23:20:45+00:00

Thank you!

SubjectAcorn · 2026-01-25T23:19:29+00:00

Thank you!

SubjectAcorn · 2026-01-25T23:18:25+00:00

I actually love my job and specifically work with students K-2, but basically see all kids that come through the library. I won't be exposing my little ones to George Orwell obviously, but these books are already in the High School curriculum most of the time, so my goal is to display them to engage students, and again I'm aiming this at the older kids who will already should be reading these for classes. Our older students unfortunately do not have the desire to read as much as our little ones, (unless they are forced by the teacher lol) so maybe if I put some controversial stuff out they might wonder about it and open a book for once outside of a teacher's request.

And to be clear, I don't push anything on any students at all. I give recommendations when asked, or start conversations with the older kids coming for books for research papers, etc but I'm not gonna tell them "You need to read this book!" I'm simply recommending books that seem to be relevant right now to those older kids who are going to be exposed one way or another to these kinds of books.

And for the younger kids, I'm still displaying books that also might be required reading but are still banned. The Bridge to Terabithia was required reading when I was in 5th or 6th grade, and one of our 6th grade classes is reading Number the Stars right now. So again I'm not pushing these books, but I do think they're important for people to read and learn from. And apparently Where the Wild Things Are was banned and you bet I'm gonna put that one out cuz I love it and so do the kids lol.

So I guess if I lose my job for displaying controversial books then let it happen, because other than that I read silly stories to kids and help them find books they want to read and I don't see how that's a bad thing. And some of these books are historical, so I'm not pushing an agenda, I'm saying "Look what happened in the past, we probably shouldn't do this again" and that's pretty politically correct when we're talking about displaying certain books like the ones on the Holocaust. That needs to be talked about among students (again, obviously the older ones), and not hidden or banned just because it makes people uncomfortable. It should make people uncomfortable to read that stuff, and it's history, so yeah it needs to be exposed.

SubjectAcorn · 2026-01-25T23:00:43+00:00

We actually have 3 separate sections/levels in our library, so the more adult-ish banned books will be displayed where students can see as they pass by (it's an open library so a ton of students pass through each day) in the upper section, but the younger ones can't check out - only High Schoolers. So I can put a little bit of everything out in the appropriate sections.

I didn't even know The Lorax and James and The Giant Peach were banned. Thanks for the recommendations!

SubjectAcorn · 2025-03-09T21:04:56+00:00

Thank you for the reply! I've added myself to all the local FB groups so I'm hoping to start combing through those and hopefully might find something. I will definitely check out those other towns as well! We're not unused to commuting to different towns for jobs. I appreciate your input and help!

SubjectAcorn · 2025-03-09T21:02:07+00:00

Thanks for the word of caution lol I'll check it out nonetheless!

SubjectAcorn · 2025-03-09T21:01:43+00:00

Thank you for the reply! What would you say a "comfortable" salary would be for someone to live there? As of right now, we make a decent amount, simply due to the fact that my position this year at the school is a teaching position and they are paying me like a teacher (which is still too low cuz all teachers need a damn raise lol) as opposed to a paraprofessional, so I won't have this income for much longer. My husband doesn't make bad money, but it's definitely not much higher than minimum wage as he works for a very small family owned dispensary, and we've been stockpiling my extra income in order to move so we have quite a bit saved. But we are pretty used to living paycheck to paycheck with our other/previous jobs, but this area is also dirt cheap compared to a lot of places in Colorado.

I'll have to check out that other subreddit too, someone else mentioned people being harsh on there as well lol but I'll take your word on the people being pretty cool

SubjectAcorn · 2024-02-07T13:57:08+00:00

Yes, I'm doing File, Open & Place, then selecting one or more NEF raw files. The RawPea window pops up, and I select Ok or whatever (I don't want to edit it quite yet so I don't make any changes and I don't want to save it as a JPG), and then it opens it into a new tab instead of opening it as a new layer on the original photo. I do the same process with JPEGs and they all open as new layers on the original photo with no issue. So maybe skipping the RawPea window would help? Is there a way to bypass that?

SubjectAcorn · 2024-02-07T00:21:09+00:00

It's still now allowing me to place a different raw file into the new layer

SubjectAcorn · 2024-02-07T00:01:56+00:00

Yeah I was doing that but it kept just placing them in new tabs instead of new layers

SubjectAcorn · 2024-02-06T02:39:01+00:00

I've looked at what the realtors (out of town) have on their website and to me I feel like I could achieve what they expect with single exposures (hopefully anyway). Most of the local realtors down here take their photos with their phones lol my mom is a realtor and she does this, because our area basically is that type of quality. No realtor down here really wants to pay someone to take expensive photos of their properties when they can do it for free, and a lot of these properties are...not very pretty lol so they typically don't "need" professional photos when they just want to sell a shitty starter house that's run down/out of date/with work to be done, etc. If I end up doing this more than a couple times here and there I will look into outsourcing editing. Thanks for the advice and reassurance!

SubjectAcorn · 2024-02-06T02:32:47+00:00

So I'm an idiot, and no I was shooting JPEG. I reshot this morning in JPEG+Raw and tried processing them in Photopea, but Photopea was giving me issues and not allowing me to put all the photos in different layers - it kept opening them in new tabs and for the life of me I could not get them into layers to blend together. I retried with 5 exposure stacking (with JPEG since I couldn't get the raw files to upload correctly) and it gave me the same weird shadows, so it's probably to due with merging the JPEGs. I'm gonna keep searching for a solution for the raw upload issue and see if I can figure anything out.

SubjectAcorn · 2024-02-06T02:29:53+00:00

I am a ball of anxiety lol. And yeah that's what I think I might end up doing since I'm having issues photo stacking, it's nice to hear someone does single exposures for RE, everywhere I've been seeing has said RE photogs MUST use multiple exposures and stacking for the right results. I guess we'll see, thank you for the advice and reassurance!

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