California School District Bans ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ ‘Huckleberry Finn,’ Other Classic Books

A pile of "Go Set a Watchman," by Pulitzer Prize-winning Alabama author Harper Lee at a Books and Books store in Coral Gables, Fla., on July 14, 2015. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Classic novels that contain racial slurs are being removed from the required reading list in the Burbank Unified School District in California.

Teachers have been instructed not to include books such as Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” on their curriculum until further notice, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times.