To Kill A Mockingbird

A tomboy learns that Americans are racist when she watches a drunken loser ruin a black man's life via false rape accusation, despite the fact that her father absolutely proved that he could not have done it. (Later, the poor black man dies in prison via police brutality.) Tomboy then gets attacked by the aforementioned drunken loser, and a man whom she used to torment because she wanted to see what he looked like comes to her rescue, and he disappears again. The rest of it is pure filler. Seriously, this book is almost 400 pages, but it would only be around 60-80 pages if you only included the parts that actually matter.