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Banned Books Week: Why these 10 classics got kicked out of class

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2. To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee's exploration of small town mores and racial injustice "To Kill a Mockingbird" was challenged in Eden Valley, Minn., in 1977 and temporarily banned because the words "damn" and "whore lady" are used in the novel.