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Monkey Town

The Summer of the Scopes Trial

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Monkey Town

By: Ronald Kidd
Narrated by: Ashley Albert
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 School is out in the summer of 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee. For Frances Robinson, a fifteen-year-old daydreamer with a crush on her teacher, John T. Scopes, summer vacation promises tennis, and Coca-Colas from her father's drug store. But when Frances's 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.©2006 Ronald Kidd; (P)2006 Random House, Inc. Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Group Crime Difficult Situations Growing Up Historical Fiction Literature & Fiction Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Primary Education Fiction Monkey Town
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