将下面这段中文翻译成英文，并将结果作为输出。



这本小说的故事发生在1960年代的美国南方，主人公是一个年轻的女孩，她在成长的过程中面临了许多种族歧视和人性的挑战。
The story of this novel takes place in the American South in the 1960s, and the protagonist is a young girl who faces many challenges of racial discrimination and human nature in the process of growing up.