To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird is the only known novel by Harper Lee. Here are a few questions for study and discussion.

Harper Lee's coming-of-age tale, To Kill a Mockingbird is set in the Deep South, and is a searing portrayal of race and prejudice told through the eyes of a little girl.

To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee. The book depicts the experiences of a young girl, Scout, and her family in a Southern town. To Kill a Mockingbird deals with aspects of racism, and involves other aspects of violence and alienation. Here are a few quotes from To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee.

To Kill a Mockingbird is Harper Lee's classic novel about Scout, her brother and father, Atticus. Her father is a lawyer, who defends Tom Robinson, who is accused of raping Mayella Ewell. The legendary Boo Radley also becomes an integral part of Scout's adventures. Read more about Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird.

A coming-of-age story or novel is memorable because the character undergoes adventures and/or inner turmoil in his/her growth and development as a human being. Some characters come to grips with the reality of cruelty in the world--with war, violence, death, racism, and hatred--while others deal with family, friends, or community issues.

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Kathleen Prody and Nicolet Whearty write: "Students gain a sense of the living history that surrounds the novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird'."

I recommend the following titles to maintain fluency and reading level and to encourage independent reading. These are a sampling of the titles that often appear on high-school reading lists for 10th grade (or 11th) American literature study.

Harper Lee is one of the most famous writers of her time--most well-known for To Kill a Mockingbird, a controversial novel about race relations in America (although the book covers much more territory than just that). Lee received the Pulitzer Prize for the novel, but she has not published another book since.

To Kill a Mockingbird is the only known novel by Harper Lee. With this famous and controversial novel, Lee forged her place in American literature as a chronicler of 1930's racial injustice.

Here are a few of the quotes from Atticus Finch, in To Kill a Mockingbird (by Harper Lee).