Tangerine was just horrible with a terrible message,
'Hey kids, mis behave and disobey and be a ***** to your caring protective mother, and ruin your brothers life, because your poor friends are more important!'
To Kill A Mocking Bird? Ugh.
To Kill a Mockingbird was overemphasized. We read it once in middle school and again early on in high school. It's annoyingly simple, and I got the impression that it was only taught because it was a solid anti-racist American novel.
The characters are divided in binary fashion into "good, innocent, and tolerant" and "bigoted, short-sighted, and stupid." There was never a sense that racism and prejudice is something *everyone* partakes in to some degree. Characters who are good are heaped with good qualities and nothing else, and the opposite goes for those who are bad.