This Banned Books Week, reading advocates around the country are fighting harder than ever against book challenges. And they need your help! You might ask what actions you can take, what can just one person do to make an difference? Well, our friends at Banned Books Week and the American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom have put together this helpful advocacy guide for making your voice heard through actions big and small.

• Try joining or donating to an advocacy agency.
• Purchase a Banned Book (and make sure your purchase supports local independent books stores).
• Learn where your local leaders stand on censorship (and other issues you care about).
• Register to vote.

Book banning not only limits our choices, but it limits our worldview by silencing marginalized voices, sanitizing our history, and confining our critical thinking skills and intellectual growth.

Saturday, October 11 is Let Freedom Read Day. What will you to to defend books and readers?