They challenged the books for alleged potential harm to the public school district’s roughly 400 Black students. In 2020, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and “Of Mice and Men” received complaints from four parents in Burbank Unified School District, three of them Black, according to the Los Angeles Times. The book has been challenged numerous times over the years for its discussion of race, its use of the N-word and other profanity, according to ALA. The 1960 classic, widely read in high schools across the country, is a coming-of-age novel about a young girl named Scout as she tries to understand her father, Atticus, who is a lawyer defending a Black man falsely accused of raping a white woman. Caldwell-Stone said the book is intended for mature audiences and “has high interest for mature adolescents who are interested in the topic.”
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