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The Big Read
 January-May 2009 

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.

To Kill a MockingBird
 ©Wendell Minor 1988


What is
The Big Read is a nationwide program created by the National Endowment for the Arts designed to revitalize the role of literary reading in American culture. The Big Read invites neighbors to read and discuss a single book of American Literature in their communities and experience the transformative power of reading. The NEA supplies educational and promotional materials such as Reader's Guides and Audio Guides, bookmarks, posters and banners to encourage citizens to participate.


Copies of the NEA Reader’s Guides, Teacher’s Guides, and Audio Guides for “To Kill a Mockingbird” are available at all branches of the Hartford Public Library and all partner libraries.

This project is part of the Big Read, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts Midwest.


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