New in Paperback! This collection of sixty-three essays provides assistance to the growing number of students, teachers, librarians, and parents who find themselves confronting a censorship situation. The contributors are both authors—of fiction, drama, and poetry for adults, children, and adolescents—and teachers of literature, writing about the books that are most frequently challenged in schools and libraries. Part I provides six authors' perspectives on censorship by omission and commission. Part II provides responses and defenses of individual books. Paperback edition available May 2001.

Contributions by: Katherine Paterson, Arthur Miller, John A. Williams, Norma Fox Mazer, Rudolfo A. Anaya, Mary Stolz, Lee Bennett Hopkins, Arlene Harris Mitchell, William Sleator, Robin F. Brancato, EdwardB Jenkinson, Robert M. O'Neil, Maryemma Graham, Jerry W. Ward Jr, Walter C. Farrel, Sue Ellen Bridgers, Robert M. Adams, Richard H. Beckham, Margaret Odegard, Norbert Blei, Marshall Toman, Zibby Oneal, Douglas A. Pearson, Angelene Jamison-Hall, Joan DelFattore, Harry Harder, Robert Beck, Terry Beck, James A. Michener, Jim Mulvey, Robert Small, Frank Battaglia, Jean P. Rumsey, Imogene DeSmet, Frank Zidonis, William G. McBride, James Bertolino, Opal Moore, Paula Fox, James DeMuth, Geneva T. Van Horne, Gilbert Powell Findlay, Paul Slayton, Jack Stark, Sue Bridwell Beckham, Gladys V. Veidemanis, James E. Davis, Thomas Scarseth, Frederik Pohl, Laura Quinn, Ron Neuhaus, Alleen Pace Nilsen