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How To Write A Book Report To Kill A Mockingbird

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I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and I finished the book. The story is about three children that spend the summer together in Maycomb County, Alabama. The names of the children are Jem, Dill, and Scout whose age’s ranges from seven to ten in their first summer of the book. As the book moves on, they learn about the neighborhood legend that lives next to them, Boo Radley. As a young adolescent, Boo was in a gang, and their gang once got in trouble, and they were sentenced to go to jail. However, Mr. Radley said that he would keep Boo out of trouble and the court believed him. However, Boo ended up stabbing his dad’s leg with a scissors and there were rumors that Boo was crazy. This inspired the three children to see if they could

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