Harper Lee's to Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee and Joyce Milton

A guide to reading To Kill A Mockingbird with a critical and appreciative mind. Includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: School & Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0808510258
• ISBN13: 9780808510253
• Release Date: October 1984
• Publisher: Turtleback Books
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.2" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Exciting, Excellent, Extraordinary

To Kill A Mockingbird is filled with moral lessons, adventure and humor. The children's growth and maturity thoughout this story is true to life. Their relationships with each other, their father, neighbors and other relatives engage the reader and keep you wanting more whether those relationships are positive or negative. The characters and the descriptions of the neighborhood and town are vivid. When reading this book, one becomes linked with the characters as if those townfolk were one's own. It can't be put down until it is finished. And the finish is worth the wait.

I recommend this book to anyone from 12 years and up!

To Kill a Mockingbird in my opinion is a brilliant novel I loved every minute of reading it, I couldn't put it down!This book gave a good insight to what life was like in America in the 1930's and the kind of prejudices people had to live with in everyday life and how they coped with it.It was also seeing what the characters lives were like through the eyes of the little girl Jean Louise(Scout).This is a good book to keep and give to your children.

Give this one to your kids!

I can think of no single book I have read in the last 25 years that connects with every age and in every age. Thank godness Ms. Lee didn't give up, and continued re-writing this novel for the more than five years it took to bring to fruition. Some people grow up and become famous; Scout, Jem, and Dill never grow up, and they are immortal. Like HUCK FINN, each time I pick it up, I don't find more in the book, I find more in myself, and I am sure this is true of everyone who reads it. I have taught this book to students for more than 20 years, and it is without a doubt the one book that is overwhelmingly positively received among all those that I have shared with my classes. More than one student has come back years later to remark that he/she has reread it over the years, and continues to be enriched by it. This would be THE book to share with your own children, and both you and they would be far better for having done so than spending those hours in front of the television.

This book was very good.

From begining to end this book gave me a sense of relating to other people and the way other people live and feel and some of the tragedies of this world. It was truly a mind opening experience, I had to do a book report on this book and I found it most interesting. Scout was like a link between you (the reader) and the book, you almost forget she's a fictional character. I've done my best to tell you how good this book is .... you'll have to read it for yourself to really understand. This book is for people of all ages.

Required reading isn't always bad

This book was required for my summer high school 10th grade reading. First thought-yeah, yet one more book about the pains of growing up in the early 1900's. Well, the book proved otherwise. When reading, I really began to feel as if I was a part of the Finch family. Truly, Harper Lee writes a book of humor, relationships, trauma-all necessary characteristics of a well-written novel. To Kill A Mockingbird really gave me the perspective of the mysteries the Finch children had to uncover-Boo Radley especially. I throughly enjoyed this novel.