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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Harper Lee

Tags: fiction american classic southern novel harper_lee mockingbird

Description: A very good book with a story that captures your attention from page 8 and out.

FromA very good book with a story that captures your attention from page 8 and out.

From Amazon.com: "Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race, class, justice, and the pain of growing up."...

2005-12-12