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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Start date
January 8, 2016
Finish date
January 18, 2016
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Reviewed by Alexia Safieh

This book deserves more than 5 stars. This book, by far, is one of the best I h…more

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Jose Andres
Apr 08, 2016 rated it it was amazing
How to Kill a Mockingbird was is the latest book I’ve read, it’s 384 pages long. I give this book a ✩✩✩✩✩ rating. I really enjoyed this book for many reasons, one of them is that Jean Louise (Scout) and her brother Jeremy (Jem) are forced to make many choices that may be very creepy with the assumptions that people create of someone else. Also the book plays a lot with your mind, it makes you think that someone is evil when that character is not evil. It made me feel like I was inside the book a ...more
Giuliana Bonifasi
May 12, 2019 rated it it was amazing
How will this book help me in my journey?
This was a book I picked alongside Laura, my Middle School teacher, because we both knew it was a book that was going to challenge me, both intellectually and in the area of my reading level. It helped me into passing to High School with a higher level of reading and a higher understanding of something pretty deep.
What impacted me the most from this book? (theme, chapter, writing style, character, topics)
What impacted me most at that time was probably th
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Alexia Safieh
Jan 29, 2016 rated it it was amazing
Reviewed by Alexia Safieh

“To Kill a Mockingbird” is a novel that takes place in the early 30s; it’s inspired by the author's experience while growing up in a small town in Alabama during the Great Depression when many families faced poverty and African-Americans were seen as social and intellectual inferiors.

Jean Louise (Scout) Finch narrates the book while telling us her story about growing up in Maycomb, Alabama where she lives with her older brother, Jem, and her widowed father, Atticus, wh
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