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Chicago Read-Out

Info about Chicago Read-Out!

September 29, 2007
1:00 - 4:00
Pioneer Plaza, Michigan Ave. and the Chicago River

You are invited to come and celebrate your freedom to read during the 26th annual celebration of Banned Books Week. Join the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom, McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum, and the Newberry Library in Pioneer Plaza-at Michigan Ave. and the Chicago River-on Saturday, September 29, 2007, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., for the Banned Books Week Read-Out! Local Chicago celebrities join several acclaimed authors to read passages from their favorite banned and "challenged" books. Authors scheduled to appear include Chris Crutcher, author of Whale Talk; Robie Harris, author of It's Perfectly Normal; Carolyn Mackler, author of The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things; Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, authors of And Tango Makes Three; Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, author of the Alice Series; and Sonya Sones, author of What My Mother Doesn't Know.

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