"Whose Side Are You On?" Moral Consequences of Young Readers’ Responses to To Kill a Mockingbird

Authors

  • Autumn A. Allen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21900/j.rydl.v2i2.1547

Keywords:

To Kill a Mockingbird, youth literature, school curriculum

References

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Published

2020-01-17