Suspended Novels Return To School Shelves In Virginia County

ACCOMAC, Va. (AP) — Two classic American novels, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "To Kill a Mockingbird," will immediately return to public school library shelves in a Virginia county.

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