Read More: Why 'To Kill a Mockingbird' Keeps Getting Banned 4. On the flip side, however, the school board in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, reinstated the novel in 2013 after a 12-year ban. After a Virginia school board banned her book in 1966 for being “immoral literature,” an exasperated Lee wrote to a Richmond newspaper, “To hear that the novel is ‘immoral’ has made me count the years between now and 1984, for I have yet to come across a better example of doublethink.” The book was banned in Lindale, Texas, in 1996 because it “conflicted with the values of the community” and removed from an Ontario high school’s English class in 2009 because of its racial language. Lucas Pires Morais Ms.White Independent Reading 6th October 12 The Call of the Wild: Graphic Novel By Neil Kleid, Classic Fiction, 148 Pages This graphic novel adaption of Jack London’s The Call of the Wild is a fantastic adventure based around the drastic change in the life of a dog named Buck. While a beloved novel for many, it is one of the most commonly banned books. Harper Lee’s 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has been repeatedly challenged and banned in schools amid complaints of profanity, racial epithets and a description of a rape.
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