To Kill a Mockingbird [Harper Lee]
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee ****
This ever-popular, Pulitzer prize-winning novel is written from the first-person perspective of “Scout,” a young girl growing up in a small, segregated Alabama town during the Great Depression. I did not read any descriptions of the book before I began it, so it was fascinating as I began to realize what it was about. Its gentle, childlike, Tom Sawyer, heart-of-America cadence drew me in, but provided a counterpoint to the hypocrisy, racism, and bigotry that was revealed in the town little by little.
The writing itself, of course, is excellent, telling the story subtly but powerfully - or perhaps the power is in its very subtlety. In my opinion, this is not the most compelling book I’ve ever read on this issue, but it is significant and memorable.
Recommended age level: 15+. Contains a few profanities.
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- A Return to Modesty [Wendy Shalit]
- A Thousand Splendid Suns [Khaled Hosseini]
- After the Leaves Fall [Nicole Baart]
- Anne of the Island [L.M. Montgomery]
- Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown [Maud Hart Lovelace]
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- Bird by Bird [Anne Lamott]
- Blink [Ted Dekker]
- Days and Hours [Susan Meissner]
- Doing Things Right in Matters of the Heart [John Ensor]
- Dwelling Places [Vinita Hampton Wright]
- Emily of New Moon [L.M. Montgomery]
- Every Secret Thing [Ann Tatlock]
- Farmer Boy [Laura Ingalls Wilder]
- Feeling for Bones [Bethany Pierce]
- Finding Marie [Susan Page Davis]
- Flies on the Butter [Denise Hildreth]
- Girl Talk [Carolyn Mahaney and Nicole Whitacre]
- Girls Gone Mild [Wendy Shalit]
- God’s Guidance [Elisabeth Elliot]
- Grace at Low Tide [Beth Webb Hart]
- Journey to America [Sonia Levitin]
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- Moon Over Tokyo [Siri L. Mitchell]
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- My Name Is Asher Lev [Chaim Potok]
- Off the Record [Elizabeth White]
- On the Move [Bono]
- Passion and Purity [Elisabeth Elliot]
- Persuasion [Jane Austen]
- Polishing God’s Monuments [Jim Andrews]
- Queechy [Susan Warner]
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- Split Ends [Kristin Billerbeck]
- Sticks and Stones [Susan Meissner]
- Summer Snow [Nicole Baart]
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- The Garden Party and Other Stories [Katherine Mansfield]
- The Gift of Asher Lev [Chaim Potok]
- The Parting [Beverly Lewis]
- The True Woman [Susan Hunt]
- The Truth Seeker [Dee Henderson]
- The Will of Wisteria [Denise Hildreth]
- The Writing Life [Annie Dillard]
- To Kill a Mockingbird [Harper Lee]
- Why and How I Review
- Widows and Orphans [Susan Meissner]
- Winter Birds [Jamie Langston Turner]
- Written on Silk [Linda Lee Chaikin]
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