num_pages: 288
description: After falling for her young teacher, fifteen-year-old student Frances Robinson finds herself in the middle of the biggest trial of the era when her teacher is arrested by her father for teaching evolution in the classroom, bringing nationwide attention to their small community as well as significant turmoil within her own family. Reprint.
language: English
title: Monkey Town: The Summer of the Scopes Trial
titlecomplete: Monkey Town: The Summer of the Scopes Trial
genres: Historical, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Religion, Teen, Adult, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Read For School, Evolution
ratings_count: 351
places: Dayton, Tennessee
awards: awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: South Carolina Book Award
category: Young Adult Book Award
publisher: Simon Pulse