A Stolen Life

Author Background

• Born in Anaheim, California
• Moved to South Lake Tahoe, California in 1991
• She was only 11 when she was kidnapped
• She has 2 daughters

Freytag Pyramid

• Exposition- The author Jaycee Dugard
• Rising Action- The morning of her kidnapping
• Climax- Jaycee being kidnapped
• Falling Action- How long will she be there?
• Resolution- Will she be found, and rescued?

Butler Stats

• 1990's/2000's 1 of 1500 banned
• 1990's/2000's 1 of 200 banned
• 1990's/2000's- 1 of 100 banned

Who banned my book

• Superintendent Mike Paskewicz
• New York corrections officials

When and Where was my book Banned

• Originally reviewed and banned at Northview Public Schools.
• It was banned on October 30th 2014
• Removed from all middle school classroom libraries
• New York State Corrections Facility

What commandments did my book break

• Encouragement of "Damaging" Lifestyles
• Sexual Situations or Dialog
• Violence or Negativity
• Age Inappropriate
• Blasphemous Dialog

Why was my book banned

• Page 140, “Phillip was afraid his parole agent would show up unexpectedly and he didn't want the agent to see where the girls came from.”
• Page 31, sexual situation between Phillip and Jaycee.

Why was my book banned

• Page 51, he first starts talking about "crank"
• Page 52, “He has a little bag of white powder. I'm not sure what it is. Maybe that’s the crank he talked about. He shakes some out on the desk and uses a razor blade to chop it up a bit, then he puts it into a glass pipe and lights it and inhales from the other side.”

Why was my book banned

• Page 57, talks about Phillip videotaping Jaycee doing different things
• page 53, Phillip calls her different things during a "run"

Should or Should not be banned

• Should not be banned
• Teaches students a lesson
• Age restriction

Work Cited

• http://www.ala.org/news/long-description-2014-challenged-books-infographic
• Dugard, Jaycee a Stolen Life. New York City. Simon and Schuster, 2011.
• Banned Books:Reasons Books are Challenged. Butler University libraries. 11, september 2017. https://libguides.butler.edu/bannedbooks