Banned Books Week: Celebrate Your Freedom to Read

Each school day during Banned Books Week (September 25-October 2, 2010), the Random House Academic Marketing department will share notes from authors and organizations that discuss the challenges and triumphs in the fight against censorship. Our goal is to get educators across the country engaging in meaningful conversation about this subject. Be a part of our campaign by visiting our Facebook, Twitter, or blog pages, and help spread the word!

Authors Canada and Strickland Take Part in Landmark Documentary

Waiting for "Superman", the new documentary from Davis Guggenheim, Academy Award-winning director of An Inconvenient Truth, examines the current state of public education in America, and, according to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, "is going to create sense of outrage, and a sense of urgency" ("Schools, the Disaster Movie," New York Magazine). Following the stories of five children from around the country, the film features interviews with luminaries at the forefront of education today, including: Geoffrey Canada (Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America) and Bill Strickland (Make the Impossible Possible: One Man's Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary).

Waiting for "Superman" opens in select theaters on September 24. For more information and to view the trailer, visit the film's official website.

• Teacher's guides are now available for the following books: Beatrice and Virgil: A Novel by Yann Martel, Bombingham: A Novel by Anthony Grooms, and Gertruda's Oath: A Child, a Promise, and a Heroic Escape During World War II by Ram Oren; translated by Barbara Harshav.

• Focus Features will release a new film adaptation of Jane Eyre (Vintage, movie tie-in cover to come) in theaters March 11, 2011 directed by Cary Fukunaga, and starring Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland) and Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds). Look to future e-newsletters for updates and special offers from Random House and Focus Features in celebration of this much anticipated film.