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The summer when Scout was six and Jem was ten, they met Dill, a little boy who spent the summer with his aunt who lived next door to the Finches. Dill and Jem become obsessed with the idea of making Boo Radley, come out of his home. However, these brushes with the neighborhood ghost result in a tentative friendship over time and soon the Finch children realize that Boo Radley deserves to live in peace, so they leave him alone.

Scout and Jem's father, Atticus, is a respected and upstanding lawyer in Maycomb. When he takes on a case that pits innocent, black Tom Robinson against two white people, Atticus knows that he will lose, but he has to defend the man or he can't live with himself. The case is the biggest thing to hit Maycomb in years and it turns the whole town against Atticus, or so it seems. Scout and Jem are forced to bear the insults against their father and watch with shock as their fellow townspeople convict an obviously innocent man because of his race.......

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