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About: This bingo card features a collection of frequently challenged or banned books, making it perfect for Banned Books Week activities or lively book club discussions. It celebrates stories that spark conversation, question the status quo, and highlight diverse voices, encouraging readers to explore important themes and ideas in literature often at the center of debate.
How To: To download a PDF to print, click the Print button. You can modify the card quantity and other printing preferences on the Print tab. Grid items and free space text can be changed on the Basic tab. Appearance can be highly customized on the corresponding tabs, or you can easily search any preference on the 🔍 tab.
How to play Banned Books Bingo Cards?
- Paper Caller: Print PDF calling list & calling slips and physically choose the slips.
- Paper Players: Print PDF bingo cards and physically write on the cards.
- Online Players: Click on the Play button above, and then click on the 🎫 button.
- Online Caller: Click on the Play button above.
- Mixed Play: Select any combination above. For instance, caller can be either Offline or Online. And players can be Offline or Online or a combo of both.
Step-By-Step:
- Start by getting the Banned Books Bingo PDF by clicking on the "Print" button above.
- Open the PDF and print it.
- For random drawing, you can print another copy of the call list, cut, fold and then draw them randomly at play time.
- Cut the bingo cards at the cut marks if there are more than 1 bingo cards per page.
- Distribute one card per player. For marking, you can use crayons. Crayons are the cheapest.
- Select one person to be the caller. If you are playing in a small group, the caller can as well play along with their own Bingo card.
- The caller begins the play by randomly pulling an item from the call list and saying it to all players.
- The players look at their cards to see if they have the announced word. If they do, they mark that word.
- The first player to complete a horizontal, vertical, or a diagonal line of marked items announces "Bingo!" and wins the game.
- The caller validates that the items marked form a correct line according to the Bingo card and call list.
- You can play for varied patterns or a full card blackout for an extended game.
This Banned Books Bingo Cards Game contains following Words or Phrases: 1984 by George Orwell, Melissa by Alex Gino, I Am Jazz by Jessica Herthel & Jazz Jennings, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, New Kid by Jerry Craft, Flamer by Mike Curato, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, The Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson, Night by Elie Wiesel, A Separate Peace by John Knowles, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, Let's Talk About It by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan, A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez, The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, The House of Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones, The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, Sold by Patricia McCormick, Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly, illustrated by Winifred Conkling.