To Kill A Mockingbird

Through the eyes of Scout, a feisty six-year-old tomboy, To Kill a Mockingbird carries us on an odyssey through the fires of prejudice and injustice in 1932 Alabama. Scout, her brother Jem, and their friend Dill find themselves caught up in the trial of Tom Robinson, a young black man falsely accused of raping a white woman. Atticus Finch is appointed to defend Tom for whom a guilty verdict from an all-white jury is a foregone conclusion. Juxtaposed against the story of the trial is the children’s relationship with Boo Radley, a shut-in who no one has seen in recent history.