The book used to be required reading in a lot of schools. I don't know about now.
It's too bad that people above an 8th Grade reading level can't see past the incidental use of offensive words in a book that was a Pulitzer Prize novel and a modern day classic. The story is about a girl named Scout, her dad Atticus Finch, the town lawyer , who was the defense attorney for a black man accused of raping the county white trash s**t (when she actually came on to him). Atticus proved to the jury that the black man's accuser was lying by finding inconsistencies in her story. The jury convicted the black man anyway, sent him to prison, but the girl (and her trash father) were publicly humiliated.
The Trash Cracker tried to retaliate against Atticus by attempting to stab Scout. And Scout is saved by Boo Radley, the reclusive neighbor (possibly autistic or retarded) who watched Scout and her brother grow up over the years from his window and came to her defense. The story is about a girl growing up in a Deep South Alabama hick town before MLK, and everything was segregated and highly racist. It's a great story.
