To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird—Harper Lee
A tough and tender novel of race, class, justice, and the pain of growing up in the American South during the depression. The book follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman.