What are we
reading?
Harper Lee's
To Kill a Mockingbird
Six-year-old Jean Louise “Scout”
Finch is a narrator who has
captured the hearts of readers
young and old for generations. A
tomboy at heart, she works hard not
to “act like a girl” and spends her
days playing outside with her older
brother, Jem, and her best friend,
Dill. Despite the rules of etiquette
governing life in her small town of
Maycomb, Alabama, in the 1930s,
Scout voices her opinions and
recognizes hypocrisy and injustice in
her elders. Through the experiences
of her lawyer father Atticus, she
shows us how to empathize with
someone who is different, to
“Consider things from his point of
view and climb into his skin and
walk around in it.” Discover, or
re-discover, this classic American
tale that spent 88 weeks on the
best seller list, and was awarded
the Pulitzer Prize.
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©Wendell Minor 1988
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