When Ms. James asked us to see if we had any free reading books that had any thing in common with To Kill a Mockingbird I knew exactly what book I was going to use. It is called The Empress of Elsewhere. They are similar in many different ways. For example, in The Empress of Elsewhere, the main character and his sister meet a girl over the summer who is staying with her grandma for a little while and in To Kill a Mockingbird Jem and Scout make friends with Mrs. Rachel's nephew who is also staying with her for the summer. In both stories the three friends become curious about a certain scary place. In To Kill a Mockingbird the place is the Radley house and in The Empress of Elsewhere the place that the three become interested in is the island behind the old lady's house. And in both books the people that the kids thought were mean and inhumane ended up being kind and understanding, but in order to figure this out they had to walk in that persons' shoes. In To Kill a Mockingbird, that person is Boo Radley. And in The Empress of Elsewhere that person was the girl that the main character and his sister become friends with.
I liked both of these books and would encourage you to read The Empress of Elsewhere if you enjoyed To Kill a Mockingbird. Because they seemed to have so much in common.
~SUSIE
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