To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · first published 1960 · ISBN 9789999589604
Scout and Jem watch their father defend a Black man falsely accused of assault in Depression-era Alabama. The novel moves between childhood scenes and the trial itself, showing how an ordinary lawyer finds courage in a rigged courtroom.
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