To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Author: Harper Lee

Published: 1960
Novel.

The story takes place between 1933 and 1935, when the Great Depression is affecting everyone in Maycomb, Alabama, the seat of Maycomb County.

It focuses on six-year-old Jean Louise Finch (Scout) who lives with her older brother, Jem, and their widowed father, Atticus, a middle-aged lawyer. 

Jem and Scout befriend a boy named Dill, who visits Maycomb to stay with  his aunt each summer. The three children are terrified of, and fascinated by, their neighbor, Arthur "Boo" Radley.

While the children are fascinated and terrified, the adults are hesitant to talk about Boo, and, for many years few have actually seen him. The children feed one another's imagination with rumors about his appearance and reasons for remaining hidden, and they often fantasize about how to get him out of his house. 

After two summers of friendship, Dill, Scout and Jem find that someone leaves them small gifts in a tree outside the Radley place. 

Judge Taylor appoints Atticus to defend Tom Robinson, a black man who has been accused of raping a young white woman, Mayella Ewell. Although many of Maycomb's citizens disapprove, Atticus agrees.

Characters: 
Atticus Finch
Arthur Radley
Jeremy Atticus Finch
Bob Ewell
Mayella Violet Ewell
Jean Louise Finch
Aunt Alezandra
Maudie Atkinson
Charles Baker Harris
Tom Robinson
Calpurnia
Link Deas
Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose
Nathan Radley
Heck Tate
Mr. Underwood
Mr. Dolphus Raymond
Mr. Walter Cunningham
Walter Cunningham