The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, is a novel about black maids working in white homes in Jackson, Mississippi, in the early 1960s. The stories of the maids wouldn’t be told if it wasn’t for Miss Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan. Skeeter is a 22-year-old college graduate who returns to her family’s cotton plantation and finds that her […]

Scout Finch (Jean Louise) narrates To Kill A Mockingbird. Her narration starts as that of a young girl’s curiosity and ends the novel as that of an adult. Each Scout Finch quote is labeled either a narrator or a character. 90 To Kill A Mockingbird Quotes With Page Numbers Scout Finch Quotes With Page Numbers

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Huckleberry Finn was a poor boy until he and Tom Sawyer found a stash of gold. Huckleberry Finn gets adopted by the Widow Douglas. He has difficulty with her attempts to refine him, but Tom Sawyer encourages him

Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is about firemen starting fires. Books are forbidden in this dystopian world. Firemen will burn your books and send you to prison if people discover your books. Because no one can learn from books, they trust the media. They only care about entertainment. They are unaware of the dangers of

Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich, is about an essay writer who goes undercover as a low-wage worker. Her goal was to find out how low-skilled workers survive on low wages. She found that low-skilled workers get treated like children, and their pay increases don’t keep up with inflation. She also argues that low-skilled workers’

Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone, by J.K. Rowling, is about a young orphan boy. When Harry Potter was a baby, someone named Voldemort killed his parents and tried to kill him. Harry goes to live with the Dursley family. Over the next ten years, Dursley’s son Dudley bullies Harry. Dudley is spoiled, while Harry