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The Bookstore Crawl & Banned Book Sale

 May 22-24 Ballard's bookstores are putting on a bookstore crawl, like a pub crawl but you end up under the influence of literature. Twice Sold Tales/Ballard will have a 25%-off sale on banned books as our part of it. To prevent disputes about which books qualify, we will be using the American Library Association of 100 most banned books, 2010-2019 as our list of qualifying banned books. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Captain Underpants (series) by Dav Pilkey Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher Looking for Alaska by John Green Melissa (previously published as George) by Alex Gino And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell Drama by Raina Telgemeier Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James Internet Girls (series) by Lauren Myracle The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins I Am Jazz by Jazz Jennings and Jessica Herthel The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky To Kill a Mock...

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