To Kill a Mockingbird

This tense, atmospheric gem of a story takes place in a southern setting that is so real I feel like I could walk out my front door and see Boo Radley hiding behind his curtains in the house on my corner. I love the sense of adventure, honor, and family love that permeates this story. The deeper issues of prejudice and true justice are always worth looking at, and seeing them through the eyes of a child makes it that much more poignant. A wonderful book that everyone should read.

I read this book a few years ago, but I loved it. I need to read it again. It's beautifully written with a powerful message and some of the most likable characters in fiction.

I love this book

I read this in my junior year of high school, and I still love it. It is something that you never forget.

at first i was like,"well,here we go this is going to be a long book.' But was i wrong! i love this book! Ms.Lee really took you into Maycomb County in 1930s Alabama and into Scout Finch's life. I couldnt put the book down. i loved this book and hope you do to!

I like how the book ended and the steps leading up to the ending. I don't like reading long books and it takes me a long to read them but I felt myself captivated in reading the book and read it in four-five days.
I would definitely read it again and would recommend it for other people.

Summary: Scout lives with her brother Jem and her father Atticus, who is widowed. They live in Maycomb, Alabama that is suffering in the great depression. In the summer the two siblings befriend a kid named Dill. Dill starts to become interested in the Radley place where Arthur or boo lives in, and never comes out of. One day Scout and Jem skip school and find presents for them in a knothole on the Radley house. The next summer Dill comes back and the three of them sneak onto the Radley property. Nathan Radley starts shooting at them for sneaking on. Jem looses his pants and when he goes back he finds them fixed and hung over the fence. Over the next winter Jem and scout continue to find presents in the knothole possibly from Boo. After a while Nathan clogged the hole with cement. Atticus agrees to defend a black man who was accused of raping a white girl whose name is Tom Robinson. Because their father agree to that Jem and Scout get abused by the kids at school. The next summer Dill is supposed to live with his new father but he runs away to Maycomb. Tom Robinsons trial starts and he placed in the local jail were he was lynched by a mob of men. Atticus stands up to them and Jem and Scout sneak out and join their father. At the trial Atticus provides clear evidance that shows that Mayella Ewell (the girl who "got" rapped) and her father were lying. Mayella propositioned that Tom Robinson was caught by her father and then accused him of rape to cover the shame and guilt. Atticus also provides evidance that Mayella was abused by her own father. Even thought he was proved innocent the white jury convicts him. Later Tom tried to escape but gets shot to death. Mayellas father Bob feels embaressed so he attacks Toms widow, breaks into the judges house, and then attacks Jem and Scout when they were walking home. Boo sees it happening and intervenes and saves Jem and Scout and stabbed Bob. He carries Jem back home and to protect him Jem tells the sherrif that Bob fell over a tree branch. He later disappears into the Radley house. Later Scout feels bad for Boos way of living and finally sees him as a person.

Reader reviewed by Erin

I love this book! It's soo great. Even though it's an older book we all can relate to it. I had to read it for school and I loved it. Especially the first part of the book. I love how great the writing is. Harper Lee really describes all of the characters. To Kill a Mocking Bird is just a great classic read.

Reader reviewed by $D-money and J-money$

This was a very good book but the only problem i think people might have with it is that it takes a long time to get into the really cool stuff and even though i didnt mind some people might and that is why i rated it a 4 instead of a 5

Reader reviewed by Amanda D.

"To Kill A Mockingbird" is a book about a town called Maycomb, Alabama in the 1920's. Half of the book goes through a few years of the childhoods of brother and sister Jem and Scout. Their father is a lawyer. The conflict of the assumption that a black man raped a white woman begins at the second half. Jem and Scout's father defends the man. You see how people reacted to them when they found out he took the case and how he deals with it. Also in the book is the common "haunted house" most kids believe. A man named "Boo" Radley lives in the house and never comes out. He is assumed to be crazy and violent.

For the most part, I like this book because it reminds me of the way my grandparents talk about their childhood in Alabama. It also showed how people can be cruel when met with certain circumstances and how they deal.