-by Harper Lee
280 pages (1960)
Like most young ones my age, I read and studied To Kill A Mockingbird in junior high school. But this story has stuck with me through the years, and every time I flip through it’s pages, I look back on it with deep admiration and affection. This classic tale of courage and altruism is timeless.It is the early 1950’s in the southern states. A highly respected small-town lawyer decides to take on a case defending a framed African American man, although he knows he will not win the trial. The lawyer must face the ridicule of the town’s folk, and racists in his community who seek to have the framed man killed.
In the meantime, the lawyer’s two children (Scout and Jem) get entangled in the age-long mystery of Boo Radley, their mysterious next door neighbor who no one has seen for years…and who no one seems to understand.
To Kill A Mockingbird is a touching story full of life-lessons and heart - one of which proves that fighting a losing battle may be difficult, but “good” will ultimately triumph if you stand up for what you know to be right and true.
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