A school district in Mississippi is going to pull the classic book ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee, off of the required reading list. School officials say they can teach the same lesson with a different book.
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on Lee’s observations of her family, her neighbors and an event that occurred near her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, in 1936, when she was 10 years old. The story is told by the six-year-old Jean Louise Finch.