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Imprint: Vintage Children's Classics
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Published: 21/05/2015
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ISBN: 9781784870799
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Length: 496 Pages
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Dimensions: 188mm x 31mm x 129mm
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Weight: 324g
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RRP: £7.99
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird'
Meet Scout, the narrator of this book. Her story is one of Deep South summers, fights at school and playing in the street. The spooky house of her mysterious neighbour, Boo Radley, sags dark and forbidding nearby. Her brother, Jem, and her friend, Dill, want to make Boo come outside.
Her story is about justice. When Scout’s father, a lawyer, agrees to defend a black man against an accusation by a white girl, he must battle the prejudice of the whole town.
It’s about imagination – not just the kind you need for childhood games. Because you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.
Vintage Children’s Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives. Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
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Imprint: Vintage Children's Classics
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Published: 21/05/2015
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ISBN: 9781784870799
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Length: 496 Pages
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Dimensions: 188mm x 31mm x 129mm
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Weight: 324g
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RRP: £7.99
Reviews
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"Harper Lee announced she would be releasing a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird this summer – 55 years after her debut. Go Set a Watchman, completed in the mid-50s but lost for more than half a century, was written before To Kill A Mockingbird and features Scout as an adult"
Guardian
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"No one ever forgets this book"
Independent
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"Someone rare has written this very fine novel, a writer with the liveliest sense of life and the warmest, most authentic humour. A touching book; and so funny, so likeable"
Truman Capote
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"There is humour as well as tragedy in this book, besides its faint note of hope for human nature; and it is delightfully written"
Sunday Times
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"A hundred pounds of sermons on tolerance, or an equal measure of invective deploring the lack of it, will weigh far less in the scale of enlightenment than a mere eighteen ounces of new fiction bearing the title To Kill a Mockingbird"
The Washington Post, 1961
