BANNED The freedom to read · Grades 6–12

The books they tried to bury. Read them anyway.

Contraband is a growing library of learning rooms built on the works schools keep pulling from shelves — the ones about real history, social justice, and who gets to belong. The answer to a banned book has always been the same: open it, together.

—Titles indexed

—Rooms ready

6–12Grade bands

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Books in red, black, and gray rise from dark soil, opening and blooming like plants as pages and leaves drift upward.

“A word after a word after a word is power.” Banning a book is a confession that its words work. We keep the words in students' hands — with the history, the evidence, and the questions worth arguing.

Contraband · a project of mglearn