Resource Key
LEVEL 1
brief, basic information laid out in an easy-to-read format. May use informal language. (Includes most news articles)
LEVEL 2
provides additional background information and further reading. Introduces some subject-specific language.
LEVEL 3
lengthy, detailed information. Frequently uses technical/subject-specific language. (Includes most analytical articles)
Senior Library Books
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The Enduring Legacy of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird by In this special edition, LIFE delves into its famous archives to present a rich, beautifully illustrated commemoration of Lee's life and legacy. Through essays, photographs and archival materials, LIFE revisits To Kill a Mockingbird and helps us understand its magic, exploring how the coming-of-age story of a tomboy in a small Southern town became an enduring touchstone of our cultural consciousness.Call Number: 809 LIFISBN: 9781683303510Publication Date: 2016 -
To Kill a Mockingbird (graphic Novel) by A beautifully crafted graphic novel adaptation of Harper Lee's beloved, Pulitzer Prize-winning American classic, voted America's best-loved novel in PBS's Great American Read. "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." A haunting portrait of race and class, innocence and injustice, hypocrisy and heroism, tradition and transformation in the Deep South of the 1930s, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird remains as important today as it was upon its initial publication in 1960, during the turbulent years of the Civil Rights movement. Now, this most beloved and acclaimed novel is reborn for a new age as a gorgeous graphic novel. Scout, Gem, Boo Radley, Atticus Finch, and the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, are all captured in vivid and moving illustrations by artist Fred Fordham.Call Number: F LEEISBN: 9780062798183Publication Date: 2018-10-30
Introduction
To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee, was published in 1960. An enormously popular novel, it was translated into some 40 languages and sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, and it won a Pulitzer Prize in 1961. The novel was praised for its sensitive treatment of a child’s awakening to racism and prejudice in the American South. It takes place in a small Alabama town in the 1930s and is told predominately from the point of view of six-to-nine-year-old Jean Louise (“Scout”) Finch. She is the daughter of Atticus Finch, a white lawyer hired to defend Tom Robinson, a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman. A coming-of-age story of an intelligent, unconventional girl, To Kill a Mockingbird portrays Scout’s growing awareness of the hypocrisy and prejudice present in the adult world.
Biography
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Harper Lee. (2016). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://school.eb.com.au.db.plcscotch.wa.edu.au/levels/high/article/384201
Harper Lee, in full Nelle Harper Lee, (born April 28, 1926, Monroeville, Alabama, U.S.—died February 19, 2016, Monroeville), was an American writer nationally acclaimed for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird (1960).
Overview
CrashCourse. (2014, May 1). To Kill a Mockingbird, Part I - Crash Course Literature 210 [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xM8hvEE2dI
Linked Databases
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Literary Reference Centre
Literary Reference Center features an expansive collection of author biographies, plot summaries and work overviews, full-text essays, literary reference books and monographs, cover-to-cover full text for literary magazines and journals, book reviews, poems, short stories, classic texts, author interviews, and much more.
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JSTOR
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Reviews
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Walls, B. (Producer). (2010). First Tuesday Book Club [Television series]. Sydney, New South Wales: ABC.
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May, J. (2003). In defense of To Kill a Mockingbird. In N. J. Karolides (Ed.), Censored Books: Critical Viewpoints (pp. 476-84). Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press.
May looks at the history of censorship attempts on To Kill a Mockingbird, which came first from conservatives, the second from liberals.
