After 55 years, Scout Finch returns to the small town of Maycomb, Alabama in Harper Lee’s ,”To Kill a Mockingbird.”

According to The Atlantic. com, Scout will return to her hometown of fictional Maycomb, Alabama to see her father Atticus. Although Lee’s publisher Jonathan Burnham didn’t give any spoilers, the release date for the sequel is set for sometime in July.

In the same interview with The Atlantic, Burnham said, “She’s very much engaged in the process.” Even though Burnham hasn’t personally spoken with Lee, her agent spent two days with Lee in New York and said Lee is “full of good spirits.”

Published in 1960, “To Kill a Mockingbird” was famous for its dangerous themes in a very racist time. It featured Scout Finch, her brother Jem, and their father Atticus, a lawyer for a black man named Tom Robinson. Tom Robinson was accused and later found guilty for raping Mayella Ewell.

¨I read it for the first time when I was a freshman in high school.  I remember thinking at the time that I would never forget this book.  It was one of the first books that caused me to laugh, cry, feel anger, feel disappointment, and feel renewal in the human spirit . . . all at the same time,”  said Laurie Infantino, an English teacher here at Smoky. “I felt such a part of the characters and their lives, and when I closed the book, I remember feeling like I was sad to leave these characters and this story behind.  I read the book again when I was a little older, and I discovered an even greater appreciation for what it has to offer.”

If you can’t wait to read “To Kill a Mockingbird”, go to your local library and check it out and be ready for the sequel sometime in July.