This is not the type of text one expects to get in the middle of the school day from a ninth-grader. But this is the message a colleague received from her 14-year-old daughter, a girl who has ...

Author John Sledge Talks About Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' John Sledge, an author, reviewer and architectural historian based in Mobile, Ala., talks about Harper Lee's prize-winning novel of ...

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter The first chapter of Harper ...

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. 1. Narrative perspective: The opening line is narrated by Scout Finch, the novel's young protagonist. She is looking ...

I had to read To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee at school, and it was probably one of the best books I have ever read! I loved the book and when I finished it, I was genuinely sad to have finished ...

AL.com's Red Clay Readers, in partnership with the Alabama Center for Literary Arts, is a book club designed to take a fresh look at a southern classic with the help of our readers. Today we look at ...

Atticus Finch defends Tom Robinson, a Black man accused of raping a white woman. In small-town Alabama in 1932, Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) is a lawyer and a widower. He has two young children, Jem ...

If "To Kill a Mockingbird" had been published in 2015 instead of 1960, it would be classified as young-adult fiction. Back near the middle of the 20th century, though, "YA fiction" wasn't even a ...