Famed author Harper Lee has recently announced that she will be publishing a sequel to "To Kill a Mockingbird," a longtime best seller that The New York Times reports has provoked countless classroom discussions about racial and social injustice. The sequel will be the second book Lee has ever published.

According to BBC News, the title of the sequel will be "Go Set a Watchman," and the plot will revolve around an adult Scout and her aging father, Atticus Finch. According to the publisher's announcement, the plot is as follows: "[Scout] is forced to grapple with issues both personal and political as she tries to understand her father's attitude toward society, and her own feelings about the place where she was born and spent her childhood."

And now for another big surprise - the sequel was written quite a while ago. Lee, who is now 88-years-old, wrote the novel in the mid-1950s but refrained from publishing it on the advice of her editor. In fact, "To Kill a Mockingbird" resulted from the flashback sequences of Scout's story as an adult, making the sequel more of an original manuscript than anything else.

The sequel's manuscript was never published only because it was thought to be lost for many years. Lee stated, "I hadn't realized [the original book] had survived, so I was surprised and delighted when my dear friend and lawyer Tonja Carter discovered it...

After much thought and hesitation, I shared it with a handful of people I trust and was pleased to hear that they considered it worthy of publication. I am humbled and amazed that this will now be published after all these years."

According to CNN, Harper Collins' senior vice president and publisher Jonathan Burnham called "Go Set a Watchman" a remarkable literary event. It comes as no surprise to us that Harper Collins currently plans an initial print run of two million copies.

Will you be reading "Go Set A Watchman" when it hits the shelves?