Book Summary To Kill a Mockingbird is about a girl named Scout and her brother named Jem growing up in Maycomb county. Their mother died when Scout was two from a heart attack. Because of this their dad, Atticus, and their housekeeper Calpurnia take care of them. Scout, Jem, and their friend Dill get obsessed with trying to lure their neighbor Boo outside for them to see. Arthur “Boo” Radley never leaves his home and has many rumors about him. Later in the book Atticus is assigned to defend Tom Robinson who was accused of rape by the Ewels. Tom Robinson was was sent to prison anyway because he was african american. A little later in the book Scout is in a halloween pageant. On the way back they are “attacked” by Bob Ewell. Jem was knocked
