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To Kill a Mockingbird

ISBN: 0061120081

Title: To Kill a Mockingbird

Author: Harper Lee

KDL Description:

The explosion of racial hate and violence in a small Alabama town is viewed by a young girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.

Amazon Description:

Retained in the English curriculum by the Cherry Hill, N.J. Board of Education (2007). A resident had
objected to the novel’s depiction of how blacks are treated by members of a racist white community in an Alabam town during the Depression. The resident feared the book would upset black children reading it.