[libramunoz]

Getting to the books that actually such part--that would be Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Wuthering Heights!
OMG--everytime I think about have having to read those books, I want to SCREAM!

But back to the topic at hand--people want to avoid having to deal with confrontation within their lives. Having to have a book as controversial (sp) as To Kill A Mockingbird or Huckleberry Finn would mean that they might have to look within themselves-even if just for a quick second. It would sometimes mean that they would have to question themselves and question the way that they may have raised (or are raising) their children.

While trying to "prevent" them from being exposed to the "reality" of the "real world," these books promt the child to have to understand that this is part of the real world. It's again, not something that people want to face for themselves when they are in their own world-ie at home.

It doesn't surprise me that To Kill A Mockinbird is still on the list, but it is still kind of a quandry for me that Harry Potter and Twlight (-no, I've not read this series) is on the list.