To Kill a Mockingbird
Americannoun
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He said the titles included classics such as Brave New World and To Kill a Mockingbird, as well as “books that include LGBTQ+ subject matter.”
From Washington Times • Sep. 12, 2023
A Seattle-area school board has voted to remove the classic novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" from the district’s ninth-grade reading curriculum after teachers, parents, and some students complained that it was racially insensitive.
From Fox News • Jan. 25, 2022
It follows reports pupils at two Teesside schools challenged the use of the slur during lessons on Of Mice and Men, and To Kill a Mockingbird.
From BBC • Oct. 11, 2021
In this capacity, kudzu appears as a quiet porch shade in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.
From Slate • Aug. 28, 2021
On the drive home I think about Michael being dressed up as a pear and how that’s better than having to dress up as a ham like Scout did in To Kill a Mockingbird.
From "Mockingbird" by Kathryn Erskine
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