To Kill a Mockingbird (Acting Edition) (Paperback)

~ Christopher Sergel (Adapter), (Author) "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow..." (more)
Key Phrases: Tom Robinson, Bob Ewell, Boo Radley (more...)

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This edition is intended for use in schools and libraries only.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company; Nr edition (June 1, 1960)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0871290863
• ISBN-13: 978-0871290861
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #821,782 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars To Kill a Mocking bird, May 12, 2000

By	addaia (NY, America) - See all my reviews

I thought To Kill a Mocking Bird, was a very intresting and enjoyable book. I was forced to read this book for school and the first noight i got it i finished it because i liked it so much. Scout and Jem are very interesting and diverse charecters.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exciting, Excellent, Extraordinary, May 15, 2000

By	Kathy Strackbein (Maryland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: To Kill A Mockingbird (Barron's Book Notes) (Paperback)

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.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good, intriguing book., February 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: To Kill A Mockingbird (Barron's Book Notes) (Paperback)

Lee, Harper. To Kill A Mockingbird. The story starts out in summer with Jem and Scout when they were playing around Boo Radley's yard. He was the neighborhood shut-in that everyone was afraid of. In one incident they were snooping around his house out of curiosity and they wanted to leave in a hurry because they got scared. Jem's overalls got ripped on the fence and he had to take them off to get away. When he went back to get them they were all sewn up. Jem and Scout learned from their father that it was a sin to kill a mockingbird. After a while, their Aunt Avery came to live with them and tried to make Scout into a lady. Atticus, their father, got assigned a case to defend Tom Robinson, a black man who supposedly raped a white girl named Mayella. The townspeople criticized Atticus and his family for supporting a black person. Atticus was able to prove that it wasn't Tom who raped the young girl because he had a crippled left arm and her bruises were on the right side of her face. But because Tom was black, the jury convicted him anyway. Tom tried to escape from jail. In the attempt, he was shot and killed by prison guards. Mayella's father, Bob Ewell, attacked Jem and Scout to get back at their father. Boo Radley rescued Scout and Jem from their attacker. During the fight, Bob fell on his knife and killed himself. Jem was badly hurt, but both children knew they owed their lives to Boo.

I liked this story. It had a well thought out and intriguing plot. I really got into the trial. Atticus had an extremely convincing defense, and although the odds were against him, he proved that it wasn't possible that Tom could have committed the crime. Even if I were racist, the way Atticus composed and presented his defense, I don't think I would have been able to, in good conscience, rule the way the jury did. It made me wonder if Atticus could have reached down and said something to strike a nerve in the jury so that they would have felt morally obligated to leave racism out of their decision. The book got me convinced that they wouldn't convict Tom, and kept my interest when he was convicted and with the appeal. I think Atticus should have pushed for them to have a mixed black and white jury because of his own "equal court" justification speech. If it was going to be fair and equal, they should have had a jury with black and white people. Despite that bad part, it shows us how much Black people can be discriminated against and that we can look up to and try to be like Atticus in his courage in sticking up for what he believed was right. We have to make sure in life that we don't kill a mockingbird.

I think a description of an appropriate audience would be anybody who has matured enough and lived enough to understand about the problems of racism and be able to grasp the importance of this story. Also someone who has the time to read the book in detail and get as much out of the book as they can would make for the best audience. For me, the best time to have read this book would have been eighth grade because I had matured enough by then and I would have had the time to more thoroughly go over the book. At the younger age, it would have sparked my interest in reading. I would say that as soon as a teacher feels that a class is mature enough to grasp the story, he or she should give it to them to read, preferably in junior high.