I Read Canadian/Freedom to Read Week
I Read Canadian Day is February 17 and Freedom to Read Week is February 21 to February 27. To celebrate, choose a book a book from the list we have compiled of Canadian books that have been challenged or banned.
The book of negroes
Hill, Lawrence, 1957-
2011
A sweeping story that transports the reader from a tribal African village to a plantation in the southern United States, from the teeming Halifax docks to the manor houses of London.
The handmaid's tale : the graphic novel
Nault, Renee, author, illustrator
2019
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships. She serves in the household of the Commander and his wife, and under the new social order she has only one purpose: once a month, she must lie on her back and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if they are fertile.
