Students get new reading charge: Pick books you like

By Motoko Rich / The Bulletin
August 30, 2009

JONESBORO, Ga. " For years, Lorrie McNeill loved teaching "To Kill a Mockingbird," the Harper Lee classic that many Americans regard as a literary rite of passage.

But last fall, for the first time in 15 years, McNeill, 42, did not assign "Mockingbird" " or any....

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