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Article: Pikes Peak residents have gone cuckoo for 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- October 5, 2002
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A 40-year-old book achieved best-seller status in the Pikes Peak
region.
This year's first All Pikes Peak Reads project organizers asked
residents to read Harper Lee's 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning "To Kill a
Mockingbird."
And they did.
Thousands of area residents read the book, saw the film or play
and participated in discussion groups about the story of a white
Southern attorney who defends a black man in a rape trial.
A final estimate of participants will be made after the project
ends Oct. 20.
The Pikes Peak Library District has nearly 1,300 copies of the
book in circulation - including some in Spanish and Polish, in large
print and on tape.
Bookstores can't keep it on the shelves. The ...