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To Kill a Mockingbird

 Harper Lee

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Awards

Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 21 2003.
Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003.
Shortlisted for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003.
Winner of Pulitzer Prize Novel Category 1961.
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At the age of eight, Scout Finch is an entrenched free-thinker. She can accept her father's warning that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird, because mockingbirds harm no one and give great pleasure. The benefits said to be gained from going to school and keeping her temper elude her.

The place of this enchanting, intensely moving story is Maycomb, Alabama. The time is the Depression, but Scout and her brother, Jem, are seldom depressed. They have appalling gifts for entertaining themselves--appalling, that is, to almost everyone except their wise lawyer father, Atticus.

Atticus is a man of unfaltering good will and humor, and partly because of this, the children become involved in some disturbing adult mysteries: fascinating Boo Radley, who never leaves his house; the terrible temper of Mrs. Dubose down the street; the fine distinctions that make the Finch family "quality"; the forces that cause the people of Maycomb to show compassion in one crisis and unreasoning cruelty in another.

Also because Atticus is what he is, and because he lives where he does, he and his children are plunged into a conflict that indelibly marks their lives--and gives Scout some basis for thinking she knows just about as much about the world as she needs to.









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mmbraman commented:

heck yea

24 days ago...

shyanned commented:

forget you i love it more

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mayra23 rated this book  
 

does anyone know where or how i can read it online for free

25 days ago...

kelly561 commented:

You cant really read the whole thing online,but there's a website that kinda Summarized it up for you,its 'SPARKNOTES.COM' hope this help

5 days ago...

brogan rated this book  
 

how do i read books on here ?

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mayra23 commented:

did u find out how? i need helpp

25 days ago...

newmank

Just finished reading To Kill A mockingbird by Harper Lee...honestly the best I've read yet....I have NO IDEA what to read next, does anyone have any thoughts on a good book??

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Nickie24 commented:

I agree with little_woman ---- The Help is very good

6 months ago...

wbooydeg commented:

Little Bee by Chris Cleave

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lexirox29 rated this book  
 

i hate this book....

4 months ago...

Mikalakid

Just got my bestfriend to read this book :)

she loves it. so yay

8 months ago...

zohra.zaidan rated this book  
 

I started reading this book and could not put it down. Next thing I know, its twelve hours later, I have finished the book, and I had tears streaming down my face. Honestly a very moving novel. I would, and still, recommend it to everybody who I know likes to read. If you cannot grasp the true beauty of this book, than I think you are totally missing out..

9 months ago...

vampina101 rated this book  
 

shut da fuck up paaaaydon

10 months ago...

kkealie commented:

reply...you

9 months ago...

paaaaydon rated this book  
 

This book has made it to my hate list.

Required reading for Honors English II.

I loved the theme and morals picked up from the book, but personally I did not like Harper's writing style. I have not, and probably will not, read any of her other work, so it could just be this one book.

Would not recommend.

1 year ago...

newmank likes this

wooziesuzie commented:

No worries, this is her only book.

1 year ago...

vampina101 commented:

thats not her only book u dodo head wooziesuzie

10 months ago...

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hayliegrace rated this book  
 

Hmm.. I thought it was good but I didn't find it as touching or interesting at others.

1 year ago...

boris rated this book  
 

Harper Lee really hit it out of the park with this one. I'm 65 and I read this for the first time in high school. Its one of those books that whenever your short on something new to read you can always go back and read again and it seems to give you something new each time. Not many authors can accomplish that. If memory serves she didn't write anything else, but this one was so extraordinary she may well have felt that it was enough.

1 year ago...

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Very good book. Could not put it down.

1 year ago...

M and M rated this book  
 

Mom read some of this book outloud to me when my brother was reading it. I like it and hope to read the whole book someday. I heard about this book before but I didn't like the title. Now that I know what it is about I want to read it all.

1 year ago...

juls31035 rated this book  
 

I remember reading this book in high school but now I am reading it for an American Lit class in college. It is still interesting and keeps me reading late into the night.

1 year ago...

KuKu rated this book  
 

Read this for Year 10 in highschool & no doubt the best book ever read in highschool English. Fantastic & appealing to all ages.

1 year ago...

vaughncox rated this book  
 

This is a classic. Everyone should not only read it but buy a copy and make sure their children and grandchildren read it.

1 year ago...

Simba rated this book  
 

I had read this book when I was at school in the 1980's and had forgotten how good it was. It deserves the title of classic in my opinion. It was well worth the revisit.

1 year ago...

readerbee rated this book  
 

This book is amazing! I somehow missed reading it in school, and can't believe all of the wasted time! I was so impressed with everything about it. My daughter will be sure to read it earlier in life than I.

2 years ago...

oztime rated this book  
 

Read this incomparable book once and you'll go back to it again and again, and each time you'll discover it in a new and deeper way. Atticus Finch is possibly the best fictional character ever created.

2 years ago...

Blackpoolnurse rated this book  
 

I first read this book when I was 11, and I've read it again at least every year since. I don't think that any book has ever moved and touched me as much as this one. The writing, and the story is magical, and every time I get toward the end I have to slow down, as I never want to finish it. I think that the first time I read it, was when I first really read about injustice and intolerance in America and racial hatred. I didn't understand it then, and I don't now, but Harper Lee opened my eyes to a world that at such a young age I wasn't aware of...

2 years ago...

lena rated this book  
 

I read this book when I was about 11 and it has stayed with me ever since.

It really touched my heart and soul so much so that I gave it to my eldest daughter to read when she was 13 and again to my youngest when she was 13, both of them hold a special place in their hearts for this book.

2 years ago...

grammypammy rated this book  
 

well deserving of all the accolades...

2 years ago...

maggie.priday rated this book  
 

Beautiful story

2 years ago...

shellclifford rated this book  
 

love, love, love this book.

2 years ago...

psu9706 rated this book  
 

This is one of my favorite books. A real classic!

2 years ago...

Bec rated this book  
 

Fantastic! You really understand why this is a classic. I love this book. Scout, Atticus and Jem will be part of your life experience from the time you read this on.

2 years ago...


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This book tells the story of Jean-Louise Finch, aka Scout Finch. She is the daughter of the only man in the whole of Maycomb to not look at 'Negros' with disgust.
Frankly, I don't see what's so special about this book. It's well written, but it... more

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