To Kill A Mocking Bird

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To Kill a Mockingbird won the Pulitzer prize in 1961.

To Kill A Mocking Bird 

By: Harper Lee

        To Kill A Mockingbird takes place in the 1930's in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama town during The Great Depression. Scout, the main character, narrates the story. Scout and her brother, Jem, live just three houses away from Boo Radley, a man that never comes out of his house. Rumor has it that he stabbed his father with a pair scissors. All the kids are scared of him, but Scout, Jem, and their friend Dill (who comes to visit his aunt every summer in Maycomb) are determined to find out more about the mysterious Mr. Radley.

        While they do that, Scout's father, Atticus, works on defending Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a young woman named Mayella Ewell. Since Tom Robinson is an African American he doesn't have that great of chance of winning the case. Even though Atticus is pretty sure he will lose, he still tries his best at defending Tom.