num_pages: 323
description: Lawyer Atticus Finch defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic, Puliter Prize-winning novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white woman. Through the eyes of Atticus's children, Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unanswering honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930's. Author Biography:Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama, where she attended local schools and the University of Alabama. She has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, three honorary degrees, and many other literary awards.
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