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Monkey Town: The Summer of the Scopes Trial

by Ronald Kidd · 2006

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The author of Sizzle & Splat takes readers back in time to 1925 to the famous Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tennessee. This novel unfolds from the point of view of a 15-year-old girl, a student of John Scopes.

Genre
historical fiction
Themes
religion
Setting
20th centuryTennessee
Subject
historyscience
Audience
young adultmiddle gradeadult
Length
medium · 272 pages

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