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To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Start date: January 1, 2012

Finish date: January 31, 2012

Why we're reading this: We voted to read it, and it is a banned book.
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Jul 04, 2012 David Merrill rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I think I read this in around 7th grade, maybe earlier. I remember liking it more than anything I'd been forced to read in school. It had been so long I really didn't remember the book at all. When I heard Go Set A Watchman was being released, I knew I had to own it and reread To Kill A Mockingbird. I'd been meaning to reread this book for years anyway. I should warn you there are spoilers that follow. If you don't already know the story, don't read this.

The book did not disappoint. From a write ...more

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Jul 22, 2012 Joshua rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird has become an American classic. It follows Scout Finch as she grows and matures into a young adult while her father, Atticus, defends a black man wrongly accused of rape in a racist Alabama town.
It is written in first person and narrated by Scout. The tone of the book is very warm, and the prose is often even humorous. I felt that this approach to such a serious and controversial issue as racism, while unique, was not appropriate. It is not so much that it is ...more

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Nov 13, 2013 Prof. River Song/ Xochil rated it it was amazing

This was an awesome book! I loved it SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much. It was really intense, and kind of hard to get into at the beginning, but after you read like 5 chapters, it gets really good. I would recommend it for 6th grade and up because not only is it kind of a hard read, but there's a lot of adult content. Still, probably one of the best books I've ever read. :) ...more

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Jun 23, 2010 Harriet rated it it was amazing

This is an important book for beginning to understand closed and bigoted cultures. This should be required reading for all American high school students.

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