Senior Library Books
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)
Linked Databases
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Scholarly resources on JSTOR include Archival and Current Journals, Books, and Primary Sources.
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World Book Encyclopedia This link opens in a new window
Online version of the complete reference work along with dictionary, atlas, links, magazines, historical documents, audio, video, images, and 3D photograph
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
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.
