Older daughter is reading To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee for her English class. This book won a Pulitzer Prize and seems to be on more best lists than I can recall and yet somehow, I've never read it. She had watched the movie, I think last year, and rewatched it this week. She noticed some changes from the book and some things that were exactly the same. She really wanted to see what Boo looked like in the film and he was not as scary as she wanted him to be (but I think that was part of the point... that he was not that evil looking). The film won three Oscar awards.

For those not familiar with it, it is about the U.S. in the South and racial injustice and is told through the eyes of a ten year old girl. It is powerful and eyeopening. It makes you think and question your own beliefs and behaviors in a way that is not preachy.

book on wiki
film on wiki
complete book online in English
complete film on YouTube