Is To Kill a Mockingbird a racist book?, Children's books
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I – like so many other people – fell in love with Harper Lee’s book as a teenager. It’s a masterpiece: there’s no doubt about that. But it’s not as morally simple or straightforward as it seems. To Kill a Mockingbird started me thinking but, asks <strong>Tanya Landman</strong>, did it make me think <em>enough</em>?
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School ditches Harper Lee classic To Kill a Mockingbird