To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. 5 stars for always!

[Amy]

Even more amazing the second time around! Its been maybe 35 years since I read it the last time. I had meant to read it again, when Go Set a Watchman came out. But saved it, until my 14 year old was planning to read it for 8th grade school curriculum. He's almost done too. This piece of work is timeless, and it touches places in you that are beyond describable. How interesting that it is also a 2008 choice for my High Notes challenge in Play Book Tag Goodreads group. For some reason, folks were reading it then, and it made top ten. This book belongs in a top ten for always and all time. I'm grateful for the re-read.

*Also completes the historical fiction stair for me for the Climbing the Stairs challenge.

[Book Concierge]

My favorite book of all time. I've read it about 20 times.

[annapi]

One of my all-time favorite books too, but I have only read it once. I need to re-read it!

[Amy]

Your kids will get assigned it in school. I think it's neat to reread it when they are discovering it for the very first time. I have the dream that he will actually talk to me about his impressions of it. Will let you know.

[annapi]

Amy wrote: "Your kids will get assigned it in school. I think it's neat to reread it when they are discovering it for the very first time. I have the dream that he will actually talk to me about his impression..."

My daughter already had it assigned, along with The Chosen. Since I had never heard of that book, I chose (yeah, pun intended) to read that instead of re-reading TKAM. I also gave The Chosen 5 stars. Maybe I will re-read it when my son takes it up in HS!

[Amy]

I think that's awesome that your kids are assigned The Chosen in HS. That's great curriculum!

[annapi]

Amy wrote: "I think that's awesome that your kids are assigned The Chosen in HS. That's great curriculum!"

I agree! She was also assigned The Joy Luck Club. That's in my daughter's school. I only hope my son's will be as good, as he is going to a different school, it is focused on engineering and medicine. (He didn't have the grades to get in the same program as she did.)

[Amy]

In our sixth grade, the kids are reading the Giver. Which was new for me. I think Joy Luck Club is a great pick too. I have bemoaned forever that my kids are not readers, but I still try. I am going to make my 8th grader read Beartown. Grades for these boys are a variable issue. They are athletes, and I'm currently managing 12 different teams or sports for three kids. I don't know how. But when I think of oldest trying to get into college, he runs fast and is good with languages. So I am selling him as a linguistically inclined cross country runner, and hopefully someone will want him. I'm currently somewhere in between tennis and flag football, and trying to get past page 18 of Thread of Grace. Hope you are having a good day. Blessings, Amy

[Kelly]

This is a book my 8th grader has for school also! I did not reread this one or the Outsiders from her list, but maybe I should still. Animal Farm, Night and Enders Game were other ones from it that I did read when she did.

[Karin]

It's a great book. I've read it 2 or 3 times now (I finally read it when I was over 40 and wondered why I'd never read it before.)

[Joi]

I haven't read this since 9th grade I think. Definitely time for a reread. After that long, and a lot of growing up- it's basically a brand new book.

[Susie]

We read this in year nine (14-15 years old) at school, and I loved it then. I participated in a read along just before Go Set a Watchman was released and loved it again. What an amazing book that it is still being assigned as a school text nearly sixty years later.

[AsimovsZeroth]

Funnily enough, I somehow missed reading this one in school and only read it a few years ago. Wonderful book! You've reminded me I need to pick up a copy - I lost my last one in a move!