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Reader reviewed by Billy Burgess

To Kill A Mocking Bird takes place during the three years of the Great Depression in Maycomb, Alabama.  The narrator, six-year-old Scout Finch, lives with her older brother, Jem, their widowed father Atticus, a lawyer.  They befriend a boy named Dill who visits his aunt for the summer.  The three of them are scared to death and fascinated with their neighbor  "Boo" Radley.  Very few people have seen Boo. 

During the next two summers, the kids finds that someone is leaving them small gifts in a hollow tree outside the Radley place. 

The court appoints Atticus to defend Tom Robinson.  The town doesn't like the idea that Atticus is defending a black man and causes trouble for the Finch family.