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Author
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel--a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In segregated High Cotton, Texas, in 1964, the racial divide is as clear as the railroad tracks running through town. It's also where two girls are going to shake things up. This is the last summer of thirteen-year-old Corky Corcoran's childhood, and her family hires a Haitian housekeeper who brings her daughter, America, along with her. Corky is quick to befriend America and eager to share her favorite new 'grown-up' novel, To Kill a Mockingbird....
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
166 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When best friends Lucy, Elena, and Michael receive their summer reading list, they are excited to see To Kill A Mockingbird included. But not everyone in their class shares the same enthusiasm. So they hatch a plot to get the entire town talking about the well-known Harper Lee classic"--
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Erin receives her long-dead mother's diary, which reveals that she too revered Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" and wanted to be a writer, and Erin impulsively decides to take the Greyhound bus from St. Paul, Minnesota to Monroeville, Alabama, to visit the reclusive author.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch--'Scout'--returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town, and the people dearest to her. Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman perfectly captures...
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
A remarkable debut that has been called a hybrid of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and Myla Goldberg's Bee Season, The Center of Everything is the fictional story of 10-year-old math prodigy Evelyn Bucknow. Living in Kansas with her single mother and deeply religious grandmother, Evelyn believes she is destined to marry Travis, the boy next door. But as she grows up, she experiences the heartbreak of a love not meant to be.
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
Collector's ed. ; Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him--except the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
GN 690L
Physical Desc
272 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsEspañol
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Originally written in the mid-1950s, 'Go set a watchman' was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before 'To kill a mockingbird.' Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014. 'Go set a watchman' features many of the characters from 'To kill a mockingbird' some twenty years later. Returning home to Maycomb to visit her father, Jean Louise Finch--Scout--struggles with issues both personal and political,...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
Este es el consejo que da a sus hijos un abogado que está defendiendo al verdadero ruiseñor del clásico de Harper Lee: un hombre de color acusado de violar a una joven blanca. Desde la mirada de Jem y Scout Finch, Harper Lee explora con humor y una honestidad insobornable la irracional actitud que en cuestiones de raza y clase social tenían los adultos del Sur profundo de los años treinta. La conciencia de una cuidad impregnada de prejuicios,...
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Special ed. ; Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gregory Peck plays a southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The way in which it captures a time, a place, and above all, a mood, makes this film a masterpiece.
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Collector's ed. ; Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him-- except the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children.
Author
Description
Este es el consejo que da a sus hijos un abogado que est©Ł defendiendo al verdadero ruise©łor del cl©Łsico de Harper Lee: un hombre de color acusado de violar a una joven blanca. Desde la mirada de Jem y Scout Finch, Harper Lee explora con humor y una honestidad insobornable la irracional actitud que en cuestiones de raza y clase social ten©Ưan los adultos del Sur profundo de los a©łos treinta. La conciencia de una cuidad impregnada de prejuicios,...
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 663 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From Publishers Weekly: The rich and sometimes discordant strains of American self-scrutiny fill this wide-ranging anthology. Kennedy (The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis) arranges the more than 200 selections according to themes like "The Flag," "Freedom of Speech," "Work, Opportunity and Invention" and "The Individual," and devotes equal space to the official, the devotional and the oppositional. The Declaration of Independence and...
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The tradition of telling stories is as old as humanity itself -- the first tales were told around the campfire in prehistoric times, and passed down through the generations. With the advent of writing, myths and legends were finally recorded for posterity, and these texts still retain the power to delight and enthrall readers today. Over the centuries a huge body of literature has been produced, from folk tales and epics to realist narratives and...