News that a Virginia school district recently pulled its copies of To Kill a Mockingbird and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from all of its classrooms and school libraries is another disturbing sign of what might be part of what divides America so much as evidenced by the recent presidential election: the fear of being … Continue reading Before We Challenge Books, We Should Be Challenged By Them – In Defense of Huck Finn and To Kill A Mockingbird