To Kill a Mockingbird 

By: Harper Lee 

Lee, H. (1960). To kill a mockingbird. Philadelphia: Lippincott.

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This book is about a family living in the south.  The father is widowed and he raises his son Jem and daughter Scout on his own.  He is a lawyer and he defends a black man in the story named Tom Robinson who has been accused of rape.  The children discover the world of racism and the reader follows Scout, especially and how she deals with the racism she observes around her. It takes place in the 1930's. 

I loved this book when I was in school.  It was easier for me to read than many of the other books I had to read for school. The writing flowed from scene to scene.  Lee does a great job of portraying emotion in her writing and a way of making scenes climactic and exciting to read. 

Themes: Good and Evil, Social Inequality, Perspective, Law 

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