About Banned Books Week 2010: An Anti-Censorship Manifesto

         After reading Banned Books Week 2010: An Anti-Censorship Manifesto by Ellan Hopkins I learned somethings about her life, her books and how they were related.  I learned that one of the reasons that she writes all of these dark books with a lot of drugs is because he daughter is addicted to methamphetamine.  She wrote one book, Crank, and she started getting fan mail from drug addicts about how this book changed their lives and got them off of drugs.  Since she was changing so many peoples lives she started making more books about these topics and she was changing even more peoples lives.  This article was about how this process happened and that her books shouldn't be banned from school libraries because they can teach people things and change peoples lives.