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8 reviews
James McEachin

The Rharl Publishing Group, 1997

A Literary Treasure
I am a writer. After reading this book, I feel like a fraudcalling myself a writer. James McEachin's writing is that good, justbrilliant. When it comes to men of letters, somewhere, sometime, somehow, some way, James McEachin must be acknowledged and recognized as a national literary treasure or there is no justice in this world.

The Munsters: A Trip Down Mockingbird Lane

21 reviews
Stephen Cox

Back Stage Books, 2006

Wonderfully Detailed Tribute To Television's First Family Of Fright
Having recently acquired this wonderful book by author Stephen Cox titled "The Munsters: A Trip Down Mockingbird Lane", as well as the recently released Two Seasons of the classic series on DVD, I once again never fail to marvel at this brilliant and totally original series that ran from 1964-66. Part domestic sitcom, part tribute to the Universal Monsters of old, and part satire on the "then", ...

To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

18 reviews
Harper Lee

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006

Simply Essential Reading Vividly Encapsulates Depression-Era Racial Hatred in the Deep South
Some books so fluidly transcend the stories they contain that the characters and setting almost become incidental to the universal themes they express without contrivance. Such a book exists in Harper Lee's masterful 1960 novel, one of the most revered pieces of fiction this country has ever produced. Set in rural, Depression-era Alabama, it is a classic coming-of-age story about a precocious ...

Literature Guide: To Kill a Mockingbird

4 reviews
Kristen Bowers

Secondary Solutions, 2005

Glad I bought it!
This is a wonderful resource for the classroom. It really cut down on the amount of work I had to do to put together a unit.

Mama's Going to Buy You a Mockingbird

5 reviews
Jean Little

Viking Juvenile, 1985

Masterpiece
I was assighned to read this book for school reasons a few years ago and I absolutly fell in love with it. This story is about a boy who has to endure the pain of whatching his father slowly die of cancer. They were best buds, watched birds and hung out like best freinds, but for past years he has to whatch his father die, then has to deal with the aftermath of his actual death. He has to deal ...

Cross Creek (Mockingbird Book)

21 reviews
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Mockingbird Books, 1984

A walk through old rural FL
Cross Creek is a series of entertaining if perhaps embellished anecdotes relating to Florida in the years preceding World War II told from the perspective of a educated emigré from the North. Some of the language, which was typical of the times, would no longer be considered politically correct and might be offensive to some. The book, however is totally delightful and gives some insight into ...

The German Settlement of the Texas Hill Country

4 reviews
Jefferson Morgenthaler

Mockingbird Books, 2007

German Settlements in Texas Hill Country
I highly recomend this book for anyone who is interested in the early German settlers who came to Texas from Germany. I bought the book because I was married to a man from Fischer, TX, and I am in the process of learning all I can because I am working on geneology of his family, who came and settled in the Hill Country. I learned a lot by reading this book. It is well writen, and very in depth ...

Taps for Private Tussie

5 reviews
Jessie Stuart

Mockingbird Books, 1975

A very fast moving, enjoyable tale of backwood Kentucky
This book gives a look in the life of uneducated folks in the hills of Kentucky, and how money can make a change in thier life and relatives life. The language is true to the region this story happens in, and the life-style is factual. A book that can give a reader insight in the life of mountain people doesnt come along very often. The author has lived this life and know how to tell a story ...

The Everglades: River of grass (A Mockingbird Book)

7 reviews
Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Ballantine Books, 1974

"Mother of the Everglades"
That's how most of us in Florida referred to Marjory Stoneman Douglas. Long honored by the state and then by the nation a few years before she died in 1998, she was a living legend in the South Florida environmental movement. Within a few miles of where I live there's a school, a park, a long section of highway and the Biscayne Nature Center, all of which are named after this grand old lady. And ...

The Flying Flea, Callie and Me

9 reviews
Bill Wallace, Carol Wallace

Pocket Books, 1999

Lots of Fun!
My nine-year old daughter loved this book. The Wallace's tell this story from the animal's perspective, and do so with great success. Being country-dwellers, and animals owners, we could totally relate to all of their thoughts and antics. Gray, the new cat, along with Callie, the older (and wiser) cat, and their yard-mate Bullsnake share their lives with Mama Bird, Papa Bird and their babies. ...

Library Binding

3 reviews
Harper Lee

J. B. Lippincott Company, 1960

Tightly written with a message for everyone
Harper Lee was encouraged to write some of her childhood memories. What in the beginning seems like the story of three childhood friends in depression era Macomb, Alabama, turns out to be packed with insights to the makeup of human kind. This story is intriguing on many levels from the history of the area to the stereotyping of people. Most of all every turn was a surprise as told in the first ...

In Search of Mockingbird

3 reviews
Loretta Ellsworth

Henry Holt & Company, 2007

*RUNAWAY SOLUTIONS connect with HARPER LEE*
Shall we 'take the dog' (greyhound bus) to Minnesota and locate this book's author, Loretta Ellsworth? Her 2007 novel "In Search of Mockingbird" grabbed my attention with its new 'take' on the runaway theme. AND, it is the subject of a blog: "In Search of Connections" by a favorite author, Gwenyth Swain ... www.gwenythswain.com. Erin is a high school sophomore whose favorite book "To ...

Wings

2 reviews
William Loizeaux

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2006

To see the morning come
In a February 8, 2006 edition of Christian Science Monitor, author William Loizeaux offered these thoughts on the "elastic" nature of the personal memoir: "memoir is the creation of a mind remembering. The writer recalls and reflects on the past and evidence gathered about that past. Usually, the more evidence the better, but as any memoirist will tell you, remembering is always a tricky ...

To Kill a Mockingbird Study Guide

2 reviews
Andrew Clausen

Progeny Press, 1994

THIS BOOK ROCKS
This unique story of a man's integrity and honesty incorporates the evident innocence that one black man has. In the face of a bias trial he is unfairly found guilty of a crime he clearly did not commit. The racial discrimination uncovered in this book is unjust and is still being debated around the world as many people think these human beings aren't equal.

To Kill A Mockingbird Cassette

2 reviews
Harper Lee

Caedmon, 2006

To Kill a Mockingbird.
My wife and I listened to the cassette on an auto trip to Oregon to visit with our grandsons. Although we had read the book before, the audio tapes made the miles fly by thanks to Sissy Spacek.

Tequila Mockingbird

3 reviews
Nick Pollotta

Wildside Press, 2007

Painfully pun abound
"Never heard of Nick Pollotta? Join the club. Specializing in SF, mystery and humor - and with sixty published titles under his belt, Nick Pollotta has been plugging away just under the mainstream radar for the last fifteen years, earning a living as a writer and having fun doing it. Tequila Mockingbird is his first collection of humorous (and often painfully punny) short stories. Pollotta's ...

To Mock a Mockingbird

4 reviews
Raymond M. Smullyan

Oxford Paperbacks, 1990

Sweet and Simple introduction to functional programming.
This book by Smullyan is different from his other puzzle books, in that it is fully about puzzles from functional programming. The birds are functors that compute on strings. Self reference comes into play when the Mockingbird shows you what a fixpoint computation is. The phethora of birds may confuse you if you try to read it fast or skip solving the puzzles. The problems are not easy, it took ...

To Kill a Mockingbird (slipcased edition)

4 reviews
Harper Lee

HarperCollins, 2006

It's a Sin to Kill a Mockingbird...
My mother bequeathed her 1962 college edition hardcover to me in 1988, four years after I finished high school. It would be four more years before I myself went away to school, though I knew the story nearly by heart by then. I reread Mockingbird every year at Eastertime, though I am not particularly religious, nor do I mark this time in any other particularly hopeful way. Many true ...

Tequila Mockingbird : A Book of Animal Cartoons

4 reviews
Leo Cullum

Harry N Abrams Inc, 2004

It's a Cartoon Jungle Out There and Leo's the King
I was thrilled to discover this new volume of animal cartoons by New Yorker cartoonist Leo Cullum! Like Scotch & Toilet Water?: A Book of Dog Cartoons, Tequila Mockingbird is further evidence that Cullum's first name is so appropriate. It's a cartoon jungle out there, and Leo's the king. A wonderful 128 page volume, the book is stuffed with wonderful animal cartoons from Smokey the Bear on ...

Texas State Bird Pageant

2 reviews
Todd Michael

Quail Ridge Press, 2005

Precious!
This picture-book about how the mockingbird became the official State Bird of Texas is an original and well told tale. Although the story is fiction, there are lots of educational facts about The Lone Star State; its geography, its birds and its uniqueness! Our students truly enjoyed this story of how Molly Mockingbird finds her own true voice and song just in time for the talent competition of ...

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