Banned books: Kids love death, suffering and evil, or why banning books is pointless (via Raw Story )

Back in 2002 and 2003, I spent several of the happiest months of my life working in a book store. Part of what I loved the most about that job was helping people navigate the packed shelves of fiction, non-fiction, “True Crime,” history, mysteries, biographes and self-help screeds to find their…