ABSTRACT
Since its publication in 1960, Harper Lee’s novel about racial bigotry in the deep South has been one of the most frequently selected books f or required reading in high school classrooms. According to the Library of Congress’ “Survey of Lifetime Reading Habits” (1991), To Kill a Mockingbird was second only to the Bible in being “most often cited as making a difference” in people’s lives (Durst-Johnson, 1994, p. 14).
