num_pages: 323
description: 'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'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 exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to 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 of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.
language: English
title: To Kill a Mockingbird
titlecomplete: To Kill a Mockingbird
characters: Aunt Alexandra, Calpurnia (housekeeper), Stephanie Crawford, Heck Tate, Miss Maudie Atkinson, Judge John Taylor, Dill Harris, Scout Finch, Jem Finch, Arthur Radley, Bob Ewell, Mayella Ewell, Atticus Finch (The Sanibel Sunset Detective Returns), Tom Robinson
genres: Read For School, Historical Fiction, Historical, School, Novels, Young Adult, Literature, High School, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 5841625
places: Maycomb, Alabama, Alabama
series: To Kill a Mockingbird
awards: awardedAt: -283968000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Audie Award
category: Classic, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: The Quill Award
category: Audio Book, awardedAt: -283968000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction, awardedAt: -283968000000
name: Alabama Author Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics