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Monkey Town: The Summer of the Scopes Trial

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By Ronald Kidd
Publisher Simon Schuster Children's Publishing
Monkey Town: The Summer of the Scopes Trial
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In a story rife with first love and the pain of growing up, master storyteller Ronald Kidd reincarnates the most enduring trial of the twentieth century.School is out in the summer of 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee. For Frances Robinson, a fifteenyearold daydreamer with a crush on her teacher, John T. Scopes, summer vacation promises tennis, and CocaColas from her fathers drug store. But when Francess father, the school board chairman, has Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, the sleepiest place on earth becomes a hotbed for famous thinkers, including H. L. Mencken, Clarence Darrow, and William Jennings Bryan. Overnight the world is flocking to Dayton to decide Are people really descended from monkeys? Does the theory of evolution have a place in biology class? As Frances sees the man she loves crumbling beside her, she begins to question her town, her neighbors, and the father she has always trusted.Readers will devour this colorful yet tender story reminiscent ofTo Kill a Mockingbird told from the perspective of a young girl as she evolves into a woman.

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51113 words51,113 words
272 pages272 pages
Lexile 740LLexile 740L
Grade 4 to 8Grade 4 to 8
Published 2006Published 2006

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9781416905721

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