Book Review

To Kill A Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Publisher: Harper and Row, Inc.
ISBN: 0-446-31049-2

You’ll probably check this book out at the library. It’s been around since
1960. Then, after you read it, you’ll want to own it and keep it on your
"favorites" shelf! It won the Pulitzer prize and was made into a movie.
You gotta love it.

It’s about two kids growing up in a small southern town and some things
that shook up the town and shaped their lives. The main thing is a big trial
where their lawyer father defends a black man accused of raping a white
girl. Another thing is the mystery surrounding a neighbor of the kids who
is supposedly insane but is never seen. And there is an old lady who lives
down the street from them who is a morphine addict, and a situation with
a lynch mob, and an incident involving a dog with rabies. These things
make the kids see people, especially their father, in a new light.

The author of this story was a young woman who never published another
book. She quit while she was ahead—way ahead. It’s a masterpiece.
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